Chêne-Bougeries

Chêne-Bougeries is a municipality in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland,. It is first mentioned in 1270 as Quercus, and in 1801 as Chêne-les-Bougeries. Neither the Romans nor the Genevans settled there for most of its history, and the main Genevan interest was a leprosy hospital that occupied part of the commune; only when that disease was defeated around the sixteenth century did the place start to develop. French forces occupied the territory during the French Revolution, and in 1798 the commune was made to merge with a neighbouring one. As of 2009 the municipality had an area of 4.13 square kilometres, of which more than eighty percent was settled with buildings or roads, about ten percent was farmland and about six percent was forest. The figures show a commune that is mostly built over rather than rural.