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Geography

The commune is located at 5 km in the west of Annecy, on a slope in the shape of large balcony, overhanging Annecy and its lake.

Poisilliens are also called R' noillus , term Savoyard meaning frogs, because of the many batrachians which populated the marsh of Poissy.
Altitudes: 506 m, and 670 m with the mountain of Old.
Tax of dwelling 2003: 13,54% - built layer 17,69% - professional 28,22%

History

The site of Poissy was occupied very early, as of the Gallo-Roman time. A treasure of the 3rd century was found, including/understanding an iron folding stool and a small bell out of bronze, but also of the tiles with edge and agricultural tools. The Romans built also broad roads empierrées to serve the villas (great rural fields) of Brassily , rested by the Roman general Brassilius, and of Marny , rested by the Mariniacus Roman.

The great invasions are attested, by four groups of tombs burgondes which were updated of 1873 at 1950, in the sector of Vernod . Under the flagstones bones and many small objects and fragments were found. In this same sector, the burgondes built a small church.

With the Middle Ages, the monks invested the site, bringing new work methods, like tilling, and of new cultures (dry broad beans, peas, corn, oats, barley and wheat), in complement of the traditional breeding and hunting. They contruisirent buildings Maladières there to accommodate the patients (and a leper-house) and to bring their assistance to the needy one. In another sector, Chenevières , they cultivated hemp for the clothes industry of the cords, cloths and clothes, they cultivated also oil poppy to produce oil necessary for the lamps and the table, and learned to the peasants, art and the manner, to raise and look after the bees, to obtain, of honey and wax necessary to manufacture the candles.

The action of the monks, was very beneficial for the commune, all the more, which they gave to the peasants and to their children, the guarantee of the pleasure of the grounds, by granting long beams, and at the 12th century, a priory was built in Poissy.

In 1404, by pontifical decision, the priory passed under the dependence of the canons of the Abbaye of Entremont-in-Terminals.

In April 1645, the Abbot Marc-Antoine de Granery, of the Abbey of Entremont, takes possession of the priory of Poissy, and of 1666 with 1672, it undertakes the restoration of five of the buildings. Priory it remains today only the bell-tower of Romance time, and two classified stained glasses of medieval time.

Poissy continued to be a rural district, with the breeding like main activity, milk was transformed into butter and cheeses, to be transported and sold outside the commune. In 1866, the commune had 850 inhabitants, it was founded a fruit-bearing-cheese-making co-operative with the chief town, which included/understood more than 100 members in the years 1930-1950.

After the Second world war, the decline of milk amorça (- 25% in 1975), then accelerated even more quickly. The economic transfer and the dynamism of Annecy, attracted the young people, and the peasants became workmen or employees. The fruitère closed definitively its doors in 1996, and was demolished to allow the construction of a modern building the Agora with crib and halt-nursery in 1999.

Economy

Poissy lost its rural vocation gradually, to transform itself into residential suburbs of Annecy, with its beautiful houses and its beautiful buildings. The few remaining farmers gathered in GAEC. From 838 inhabitants in 1954, the population passed to 2.526 in 1975, 4.565 in 1990 and 6.750 planned for 2003.

More than 250 small and medium-size companies, of industry, the BTP, the trade and the services, settled in the four sites of economic activities: Valparc, Park of Calvi, fields of Beufan and the Pre one of Flax comb. They employ nearly a thousand of people.

Equipment

Schools and Lycée

1 elementary school
1 nursery school
1 elementary school (maternal + elementary)
a crib-halt-nursery 1999
an agricultural private college, of international audience

adult Formations

Center AFPA (National association for the Professional training of the Adults)
CFA Centers breeding of Poissy, pole of formation of the rooms of agriculture of the Rhone-Alps, the Jura and Saône-et-Loire since 1965

an old people's home (MAPAD)

Tourist monuments and places

References

External bonds

Web site of the Town hall of Poissy
Web site of the school of the chief town
Web site of the school of Poissy Brassilly
Site of the college
Site of the University of Poissy

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