Camorino

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Camorino
Camorino coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Bellinzona districtw
Circle : Bellinzona district
Municipality : Bellinzonai2
Postal code : 6528
former BFS no. : 5004
Coordinates : 720 990  /  113688 coordinates: 46 ° 9 '50 "  N , 9 ° 0' 18"  O ; CH1903:  720,990  /  113688
Height : 223  m above sea level M.
Area : 8.27  km²
Residents: 2809 (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 340 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.bellinzona.ch
View of Camorino by Ai Scarsitt

View of Camorino by Ai Scarsitt
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Camorino (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on April 1, 2017
Parish Church of San Martino
Bürgi Garden Center

Camorino ( Lombard Camurign [kamuˈriŋ] ) is a district of the municipality of Bellinzona in the Swiss canton of Ticino . Until April 1, 2017, it formed an independent political municipality that belonged to the then Giubiasco district .

geography

Camorino is located south of the center of Bellinzona on the Morobbia . The fractions of Scarsetti, Margnetti, Arla, Comelina, Camorino, Storni and Monti belong to the former municipality.

history

Camorino was first mentioned in 1237 in connection with goods belonging to the chapter of San Pietro in Bellinzona. The name goes back to ca "house" (from Latin casa ) and mulin "mill" (from late Latin * molīnum ) and means "house functioning as a mill, mill".

The current parish church of San Martino dates from 1553 and was completely renovated in 1888; No traces of the previous Romanesque building have survived. The population remained constant over the centuries (1591 400, 1900 405, 1950 702 inhabitants) and only rose sharply towards the end of the 20th century (2000 2 210 inhabitants).

On April 2, 2017, Camorino joined the municipality of Bellinzona at the same time as the former municipalities of Claro , Giubiasco , Gnosca , Gorduno , Gudo , Moleno , Monte Carasso , Pianezzo , Preonzo , Sant'Antonio and Sementina .

Aerial photo (1964)

population

Population development
year 1591 1698 1784 1850 1880 1900 1950 2000 2010 2016
Residents 400 211 300 321 483 405 702 2210 2658 2809

coat of arms

Blazon : In red a golden mill wheel over two blue waves on a silver background. The mill wheel refers to the mill called Maglio, which, along with another house, is said to have survived a landslide unscathed while the rest of the village was destroyed.

economy

Camorino was originally a farming village, but there were also craftsmen, knitwear and pasta production and a mill. Due to a lack of jobs, residents emigrated to America. The place is now crossed by transit roads and rail lines, and most of the residents are commuters.

Attractions

  • Parish church of San Martino with marble portal
  • San Bartolomeo Church
  • Oratory of San Giulio
  • Oratory of Santa Maria Annunziata
  • Fortifications, called Fortini della Fame (engineer: Captain Johann Caspar Wolff ): In the years 1853–1854, a section of the fortification line designed by Guillaume-Henri Dufour was built south of Bellinzona . Ticino people, who had been expelled from the Lombardy-Venetian Kingdom in 1853 , were commissioned as a job creation measure to build a line of defense between Sementina and Camorino, which became known as the «Hunger fortresses» (Fortini della Fame) . It was feared that Austria could attack Ticino from occupied Lombardy because the population had secured refuge for thousands of political refugees and conspirators despite the great poverty. The five towers of Fortini Camorino are in the list of cultural property of national significance in the canton of Ticino listed
  • Museo di civiltà contadina with Bruno Obaldi
  • The 3½-hour educational trail La Via dell'Acqua follows the Morobbia river in the Morobbia Valley from Vellano via Carmena - Monti di Stagno - Monti di Scertara - Monti di Verona - Monda - Tower 5 of the Fortini della Fame near Piano delle Borre - Montagna - San Bartolomeo - Ponte Vecchio sulla Morobbia - Giubiasco .

Sports

  • Football Club Camorino
Tower 5: Al Pian di Bur

Culture

  • Areapangeart incontri darte

Personalities

  • Federico Ghisletta (born May 27, 1907 in Camorino, † May 3, 1989 in Bellinzona ), politician (SP), mayor of Camorino, Ticino Grand Council, Council of State, President of the Ticino SP
  • Fritz Peter (1925–1994), opera singer
  • Paolo Bürgi (* 1947 in Bellinzona), landscape architect

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 216.
  2. ^ Graziano Tarilli: Camorino. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 5, 2017 , accessed February 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 45, 48.
  4. ↑ Parish Church of San Martino (photo)
  5. ↑ Parish Church of San Martino: marble portal (photo)
  6. ↑ Oratory of San Giulio (photo)
  7. ↑ Oratorio Santa Maria Annunziata (photo)
  8. ↑ Dufour fortresses called “Fortini della fame” on bellinzonaturismo.ch/it/sport-e-tempo-libero/itinerari-paesaggistici (accessed on March 8, 2017).
  9. ↑ Fortino della fame (photo)
  10. ^ Museo di civiltà contadina
  11. ^ Football Club Camorino
  12. ↑ Areapangeart incontri d'arte
  13. ^ Gabriele Rossi: Federico Ghisletta. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 30, 1998 , accessed May 8, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Paolo Bürgi (Italian) in oltreconfiniti