Cabbio

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Cabbio
Cabbio coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Mendrisiow
Municipality : Breggiai2
Postal code : 6838
Coordinates : 724 761  /  84156 coordinates: 45 ° 53 '51 "  N , 9 ° 2' 46"  O ; CH1903:  724,761  /  84156
Height : 667  m above sea level M.
Area : 5.69  km²
Residents: 193 (December 31, 2008)
Population density : 34 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.comunebreggia.ch
View from the northwest

View from the northwest

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Parish before the merger on October 24, 2009
Old car wash

Cabbio was a municipality in the Caneggio district in the Mendrisio district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland . On October 25th, 2009 it merged with the municipalities of Bruzella , Caneggio , Morbio Superiore , Muggio , Sagno to form the municipality of Breggia .

geography

The village is 665 m above sea level. M. on the Morbio Superiore - Muggio road , on the left side of the Muggio valley. Six kilometers northeast of the Mendrisio station of the Gotthard Railway ( Bellinzona - Chiasso line ). Cabbio is on the Italian border.

history

As a political municipality, the place was first mentioned in 1188 as Cabio . The main church of Como owned goods there in 1299. The village belonged to the parish of Balerna , but since 1593 it had a vicar alternating with Muggio . At the beginning of the 19th century, Cabbio separated from Balerna and formed its own parish. The village church of San Salvatore was built between 1740 and 1780 based on drawings by Raffaele Agustoni.

Aerial photo (1964)

Fusion in the valley of the Breggia

On April 20, 2008, the merger of the municipalities of Bruzella, Cabbio, Caneggio, Morbio Superiore, Muggio and Sagno to form the municipality of Breggia was announced.

The municipality of Muggio rejected this merger. However, it was ordered by the Grand Council of the Canton of Ticino, which is why Muggio filed a complaint with the federal court. After the defeat in federal court, the merger took place on October 25, 2009.

population

Population development
year 1685 1718 1760 1801 1850 1900 1950 1990 2000 2008
Residents 263 302 400 387 346 355 272 146 173 193

Attractions

The village image is classified in the inventory of protected sites in Switzerland (ISOS) as a site of national importance in Switzerland.

  • Parish church dell'Ascensione or San Salvatore, work by Simone Cantoni 1840–1867
  • Cantoni House (Ethnographic Museum)
  • Nevèra del Bonello
  • Nevèra di Batuela
  • Chestnut smoking house (Graa)
  • Iron bridge
  • Fortresses Cabbio-Sasso Gordona

Personalities

  • Artist family Agustoni (Cantoni)
    • Bernardino Cantoni (* around 1505 in Cabbio; † 1576 in Genoa), architect, sculptor
    • Battista Agustoni Cantoni (* around 1565 in Cabbio; † 1616 ibid?), Master builder in Genoa
    • Agostino Agustoni (* around 1570 in Cabbio; † 1616 there?) Master builder in Genoa.
    • Bernardo Agustoni called Cantoni (* around 1580 in Cabbio; † after 1630 in Genoa?), Master builder.
    • Pier Francesco Agustoni called Cantoni (* around 1585 in Cabbio; † after 1657 in Genoa?), Fortress engineer and architect in Genoa
    • Francesco Maria Cantoni (* 1685 in Cabbio; † after 1712 Hamburg ?), Plasterer.
  • José Fontana (born October 28, 1840 (Giuseppe Silo Domenico) in Cabbio, † September 2, 1876 in Lisbon ), typographer and bookseller, co-founder of the Partido Socialista in Lisbon
  • Louis Gay des Combes (born December 17, 1914 in Cabbio, † after 1997 in Lugano ), violinist, composer and conductor
  • Alma Bacciarini (born March 30, 1921 in Cabbio; † January 22, 2007 in Lugano), middle school teacher, politician, Ticino councilor and national councilor

literature

  • Stefania Bianchi: Cabbio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed January 8, 2020 .
  • Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 241, 439.
  • Giuseppe Martinola : Inventario d'arte del Mendrisiotto. Volume I, Edizioni dello Stato, Bellinzona 1975, pp. 88-97.
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007.
  • Agostino Robertini, Silvano Toppi, Gian Piero Pedrazzi: Cabbio. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1974, pp. 9-24.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Cabbio. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Brusino - Caux , Attinger, Neuchâtel 1924, p. 468; Digitized version (PDF) accessed on July 11, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Cabbio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Stefania Bianchi: Cabbio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 19th December 2016 .
  2. Stefania Bianchi: Cabbio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 19th December 2016 .
  3. List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
  4. a b c d e f Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 484–485.
  5. Fortresses Cabbio-Sasso Gordona on forti.ch
  6. Ursula Stevens: artist family Agustoni. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2015, accessed February 15, 2016 .
  7. Ursula Stevens: Bernardino Cantoni. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2016, accessed November 8, 2016 .
  8. ^ Battista Cantoni . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 528 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). .
  9. Ursula Stevens: Agostino Agustoni. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2015, accessed February 15, 2016 .
  10. Ursula Stevens: Bernardino Agustoni. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2015, accessed February 15, 2016 .
  11. Ursula Stevens: Pier Francesco Cantoni. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2015, accessed February 15, 2016 .
  12. Ursula Stevens: Francesco Maria Cantoni. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2015, accessed February 15, 2016 .
  13. ^ Markus Bürgi: José Fontana. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2018 , accessed February 7, 2020 .
  14. José Fontana bookseller (Italian) on ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti/dalle-origini-al-1900/vite-di-emigranti-e-discendenti/
  15. Louis Gay des Combes (Italian) on ricercamusica.ch/dizionario/ (accessed on: November 22, 2017.)
  16. Louis Gay des Combes on worldcat.org/identities/
  17. Pasquale Genasci: Alma Bacciarini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 5, 2012 , accessed May 7, 2020 .