Annecy-the-Old man is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Savoie and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Fourth town of Haute-Savoie, in terms of population, this city, which extends beyond north-eastern banks from the Lac from Annecy, became the very residential suburbs of the agglomeration of Annecy, with less than 3 km of its downtown area. Some call it “ the XVI {{E}} district of Annecy ”.

Its Mayor Bernard Accoyer (3rd mandate), doctor of profession, is also the Député of the district (4th mandate), and chair it group UMP the National Assembly since 2004. He is since June 26th, 2007 President of the National Assembly for XIIIe legislature.

Gentilé: The inhabitants of Annecy-the-Old man name the Ancileviens and the Ancileviennes .

Key geography and figures

  • Surface: 1.702 hectares (17,02 km ²) - 50% urbanized with 33 hectares of timbered public spaces, and arable land 50% and forests.
  • Population of the Ancileviens : 19.596 inhabitants with the census of 1999, and in estimate, 20.520 inhabitants in 2003.

The commune is located on the first buttresses of the mount Veyrier (1  291 m), on a site of hills extending between 448 and 1  160 m of altitude -- in fact an old morainic language with the junction of two old large glaciers. It borders the Lac of Annecy on 1  700 m in the south and forcing it torrent of the To trust on 12 km in north.
It enjoys forest communal 300 hectares (3 km ²) which is a small portion of the forest of the Mount-Veyrier, and accommodates on its territory, four natural units significant:

  • the north-western part of the forest of the Veyrier Mount,
  • the small valley, throats and banks of the To trust,
  • the wood of Glaisins,
  • banks and the roselières of the Lake Annecy.

Key figures

  • the budget 2006 of the city in real expenditure is assembled to 26 million euros, that is to say 17,3 million euros under operation and 8,7 million euros in investments. The released self-financing is approximately 2,1 million euros.

  • Tax of dwelling 2003: 14,45% - built layer 24,36% - professional 27,02%

The prices of the real estate are very high on this commune: 3.427 € of the m ² (autumn 2003) on average for a house (2 357 € the m ² on average on the agglomeration), according to the agents of the FNAIM.

Demography

  • 19.596 inhabitants at the time of the census of 1999 and in estimate, 20.520 inhabitants in 2003 and 25.000 by 2010.

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History

See also: History of Annecy-the-Old man

See also: History of historical Annecy-the-Vieux#Patrimoine

See also: History of Annecy-the-Vieux#Personnalités related to the commune

Populations occupied already banks of the Lac of Annecy between -4000 and -900 front J. - C. and they were especially farmers and fishermen.

The Celts Allobroges occupied in their turn the territories of the pre-Alps, the mountains of Savoy and banks of the big lakes. They very quickly had commercial contacts with the “Italian” territories. Occupied as of -121, Allobroges are definitively beaten by the Roman legions in -62 front J. - C. and their territory open with Roman colonization.

The Romans were installed starting from -50 on northern bank of the Annecy Lake, in the plain of the Ends, with the foot of the site of Annecy-the-Old man, and founded the town of Boutae (future Annecy), which gathered nearly 2.000 inhabitants between; it occupied a strategic position with the crossroads of three great Roman ways of communication (Italy, Geneva, Vienna cisalpine).

At this same time, a Roman owner of the name of Annicius - perhaps of famous and powerful family of Roman patricians, the Annici - below had an important baptized villa Anniciaca , located on the slope the Veyrier mount, with the current site of the chief town of Annecy-the-Old man, from where it dominated the plain of the Ends and the lake. The Roman villas were in fact of powerful farms which could gather more than one hundred of people.

With the weakening of the Roman empire, many cruel tribes, break through the Gaulle. The Burgondes occupied a certain time the area and left many archaeological testimonys, but the too many attacks, fires, plunderings and slaughters, rang the knell for the Roman city of Boutae, and with the population finishes by completion giving up the city to take refuge on the neighbouring hills.

The villa Anniciaca accommodated new inhabitants and was strengthened to protect its population, while continuing to live primarily of the farm. , Anniciaca knew its hour of glory, while becoming a true rural capital.

As from the year 1107, the new strengthened city of Annecy-the-Nine starts to take importance, old the Anniciaca , become Annecy-the-Old man his hegemonic position loses, and turns over to its agricultural occupations (vine, cereals, breeding), but guard a certain residential character, with many manors and relay of hunting, pertaining to noble and the middle-class men of Annecy-the-Nine.

The residential character of the commune will be confirmed at the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, when many artists come to remain or withdraw themselves with Annecy-the-Old man, to create, to rest there, and will benefit from the splendid sights on the lake and the mountains: Eugene Sweats, Astolphe de Custine, John Ruskin and Gabriel Fauré, inter alia, became faithful commune.

In the middle of the 19th century, on the grounds of the bottom of the commune, some industries are installed, whose two florets were the Cléchet flour mill and the foundry of bells Paccard, which carried the reputation of Annecy-the-Old man in the whole world. The bell “the Savoyard one” of the Sacré-coeur to Paris was run with Annecy-the-Old man in 1891. This bumblebee, always one of largest of the world, weighs 18.835 kg, measures 3,06 m height for 9,60 m of external circumference, with a base width of 22 cm, and a leaf of 850 kg.

With the fastening of Savoy in France and the arrival of the railroad, the French wines come to compete with the wines of Annecy-the-Old man dangerously, but in fact especially the attacks of the Mildiou, then Phylloxéra lead to the reduction, then with the complete disappearance of the viticultural production, at the beginning of the 20th century.

In 1972, the inhabitants of Annecy-the-Old man choose to remain independent and refuse the merger by amalgamation suggested by Annecy, its neighbor and sister.

Associations

The first association was created in 1909, and was called and school adult Shooting club of Annecy-the-Old man. On the whole, until today more than 700 associations were created and declared with the prefecture. Much of them is in activity.

Public equipment

In 2002, Annecy-the-Old man profited from the following equipment:
  • Culture :
    • a Youth club and arts center, with 1.932 members (2001). It ensures of many formations within the framework of its activities.
    • a space of meetings and spectacles in Glaisins.
    • Two public libraries (Limes, Pommaries) and a college library.

  • Education and formation :

    • a university site, attached to the University of Savoy, which accommodated in 2003 more than 4.000 students, among the 7.000 of the basin annecians, divided between:
      • the Academic institute of technology, created in 1973, gathers 2.115 students in 2006 and delivers 8 HAD and 14 professional licenses;
      • UFR-ATE delivers masters in economy-mangement and information-communication;
      • IUP delivers 14 professional licenses, but it would be in the process of disappearance;
      • IMUS (Institute of management of the University of Savoy) the shape of the managers of companies general-purpose and quickly operational;
      • the ICSV-CNAM (higher commercial Institute of Arts and Trades;
      • Polytech' Savoy, recently resulting from fusion between ESIA and the EGISEC of Chambéry, is a school of Engineer (750 students);
      • the LAPP (Laboratory of Annecy-the-Old man of physics of the particles) which is a laboratory of the National institute of nuclear physics and physics of the particles;
      • a rural institute of 240 pupils.
    • Schools, colleges and College:
      • 4 public nursery schools (Colovry, Lachat, Pommaries and " Clarines") and 2 private (the Room, Saint-Anne), accommodating 601 pupils in 2003;
      • 5 public elementary schools (Colovry, Glaisins, Lachat, Pommaries, On-the-Wood) and 2 private (the Room, Saint-Anne), accommodating 1133 pupils in 2003;
      • 5 school restaurants,
      • 2 public colleges (Évires, Churns) and private (the Room),
      • the IMP Notre-Dame of the smile (médico-teaching Institute),
      • a private college the ECA (Catholic school of training),
      • a house of reception for childhood in danger.
    • Lesson of the music: a music school open to all: " Friends of the music of Annecy-the-Vieux"

  • Parks and public gardens : The population has 11 parks and public gardens, without counting the forest vast domain of the commune. The commune proposes also many ways and pleasant lanes of charm to walk forming a true pedestrian network allowing to connect the various territories.

    • a new space of 5 hectares, at the same time urban place and landscape park is in the course of installation. The project chooses in November 2005 by Ancileviens, among four projects, will make it possible to connect enters to the several districts, and will include/understand lanes (automobile, bus, bicycles, pedestrians), an underground car park of 180 new places, a skatepark, a structure early childhood, a kindergarten and two hectares of landscape park. Work began in September 2006 and should finish at the beginning of 2008.
    • the small valley of Trusting, is a green and wild lung located at the northern limit of the commune that it côtoie on several kilometers. The Fier is a river-torrent of the pre-Alps of Haute-Savoie, which crosses the agglomeration of Annecy. At a long distance, between the bridge of Brogny and the Bridge of Tasset, the Communauté of the agglomeration of Annecy decided to develop this natural environment and to return it to the inhabitants. Work should begin in 2007, it relates to 118 hectares of banks.

  • Public safety : ensured by a gendarmerie and the municipal police

  • general Services : the Post office and a principal treasury

  • Social services :

    • an old people's home (residence court)
    • a MAPAD
    • 4 residences for students
    • social Housing: 1.410 units in January 2007, is 15% of the park.
    • a university canteen
    • 4 buildings of reception for the early childhood including two public (Clarines and Lachat) and two private (" The Verte" Mouse; and " The Corn in herbe") which is added a relay maternal assistance
    • a medico-social center (Pommaries)
    • a dental center mutualist
    • a Point " Information-Familles"
    • Service Housing " Young people Act Habitat"
    • a communal center of social action
    • Space employment
    • the Support service to old, deals of the elderly (since 1996) and the handicapped people (since 2003).
    • the Service proximity (since 1997) is the privileged interlocutor of the inhabitants for all their daily concern: Road safety, urban security, installations of roadway system, noise pollutions, preoccupations with a vicinity, canine cleanliness, division of the street. It organizes each year the festival of the neighbors.

  • Sports equipment :

    • a sports complex in Glaisins and six gymnasia: Churns, Évires, Henry Walloon, Salésienne, Bray, Pommaries (remade to nine in 2006).
    • a stage and ground reserved for the football teams at the stage of Albigny.
    • 3 grounds (including one synthetic) reserved for the teams of Rugby to XV at the stage of Glaisins. The Rugby-Club of Annecy-the-Old man is famous for the quality of its teams.
    • a training ground reserved for the Baseball.
    • a vast spot for roller, board, etc
    • a nautical club with a school of veil and a club of Oar with a section competition for the young people and a section leisures for the adults.
    • of the courts of Tennis.
    • Among the sportsmen ancileviens: Edgar Grospiron, highly skilled skier, world champion and gold medal with the Olympic Games.

  • Tourism : The city has an important tourist capacity (see below tourism). The orientation planned for the future is rather tourism of businesses.

  • Transports

    • 7 lines of bus of the Sibra irrigate the commune.
    • 33,6 kilometers of cycle routes of which large majority in exclusive right of way and landscape. 16 garages with bicycle offer 153 places.
    • 52 public carparks offered in 2006 a total of 2.831 free parking bays, to which thousands of free parking bays are added along the public highways.
    • an arranged carpark reserved for the motor homes.
    • the fast track of Aravis which ensures the connection between the exit Annecy-North of the highway and the procession of Dingy, entry of the Massif of Aravis, skirts the commune to north.

Economy

Industry is distributed mainly in two zones of employment, but in fact exists in a diffuse way through all the commune, and employs more than 4.500 people on Annecy-the-Old man:

  • the Park of economic activities of Glaisins, created in 1972, gathers on 65 hectares, 3  500 employment in 150 companies (2002), majority specialized in the sectors of high technology.
  • the Park of economic activity of Ilettes, in full reorganization, rather lodges activities of artisanal SME, on 25 hectares, 50 employment in 10 companies (2002).

The commune accommodates the head offices of two particularly important companies:

  • the data-processing group Sopra Group
  • the group of large distribution Provencia (supermarkets and hypermarkets)

The tourist activities and commercial are distributed, about equitably, around 4 principal centers: Albigny it Petit-Port, street of the Schools-Pommaries, avenue of the Squares them Clarines, Town hall-chief-place.

  • 36 hotels of tourism, 28 restaurants and a nightclub.
  • 2 supermarkets (Champion, Casino), 3 large specialized signs (Botanic, Opel, Peugeot) and a dense network of more than 200 small shops (- 600 m ²) and local services.

Tourism

  • Activities: bathe, veil, board with veil, water skiing, deep-sea diving, hiring of boats, hiking, botanical circuit of the Rampon mount, climbing, VTT, bicycle touring, tennis.

  • tourist Equipment (2002): 36 hotels for 1398 rooms - 1 camp-site for 120 sites - 1 inn of youth for 100 beds - 125 furnished with tourism - 28 restaurants - 1 nightclub.

  • Strong points :

    • the edges of the lake
      • the beach of Annecy-the-Old man, roomy, bordered of flowers, plants and trees, one of is attended, and offers to the bathers a harmonious framework.
      • the marina shelters 214 boats, with a slope for the setting with the water, remade in 2004.
      • the roselières, in edge of the lake, are a pleasant framework of walk. They were restored in 1999, are maintained and are the place of dwelling of many birds.
      • a lake way on footbridge was created in 2003.
      • at the beginning of 2007, the acquisition of the last property (4 500 m ² for 4,4 M€) of the commune having an direct access with the shore will make it possible to return to the public the whole of the peninsula. Soon important work will make it possible to emphasize the whole of the lake inheritance of the commune and to allow côtoiement in safety of all the modes of displacement by the creation of a landscape way.
    • the mount Rampon (957 m) and the mount Veyrier (1 291 m) are rich in hiking trails offering a splendid panorama on the lake, all the agglomeration of Annecy, and on the mountains (the Aravis, the Tournette, the Semnoz and the Plateau of Glières).
    • the mount Rampignon (894 m) proposes a botanical path of approximately 2 hours of walk, and also makes it possible to have splendid sights on the town of Annecy and the lake.

Events

  • Musical Gabriel-Fauré, (16th edition in 2006).
  • Race " Ancilevienne".
  • Haute-Savoie Mont Blanc Cup, 13th edition in April 2007. 750 young players of football of six European countries.

External bonds

  • Site of the Town hall

  • Office Tourism of Annecy

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