Caneggio

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Mendrisio district

Municipality :

Breggia

Postal code :

6837

Coordinates :

723 624 / 81332 coordinates: 45 ° 52 '20 " N , 9 ° 1' 51" O ; CH1903: 723,624 / 81332

Height :

559 m above sea level M.

Area :

3.87 km²

Residents:

333 (December 31, 2008)

Population density :

86 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.comunebreggia.ch

Caneggio

map

Parish before the merger on October 24, 2009

Houses of Caneggio

Campora with Sasso Gordona in the background

Caneggio was a municipality in the Caneggio district in the Mendrisio district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .

geography

Caneggio is located in the Muggio Valley above Mendrisio , surrounded by vineyards and forests .

history

The village was first mentioned in 1209 under the then name Canegio . In 2004 Campora, the village on the opposite side of the valley, which until then was part of the municipality of Caneggio, was merged into the municipality of Castel San Pietro .

Aerial photo (1964)

Community merger

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	1671	713	1769	1801	1850	1900	1950	1980	2000	2008
Residents	238	213	223	227	406	419	393	287	343	333

Attractions

Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta
Stone bridge over the Breggiaschlucht
Hunting tower del Suà

Sports

Football Club Real Caneggio

Personalities

Gaspare Arcioni (* around 1575 in Caneggio; † after 1616 in Kraków ?), Master builder

Petrini family of artists
- Giovanni Battista Petrini (* around 1540 in Caneggio; † after 1613 in Krakow), builder, architect in Poland
- Antonio Petrini (1631–1701) architect
- Antonio Giuseppe Petrini (born October 12, 1659 in Caneggio, † 1721 in Lübeck ) city architect.
Paolo Baruzzi (* 1641 in Caneggio; † 1693 ibid?), Plasterer in Kroměříž
Antonio Carabelli (* 1648 in Caneggio; † 1694 ibid), plasterer
Giovanni Patturelli (* 1770 in Caneggio; † 1849 ibid) architect
Giuseppe Maggi (* 1910 in Brunnadern SG ; † July 25, 1988 in Mada), doctor, benefactor in Cameroon
Anacleto Arrigo (born April 18, 1919 in Caneggio; † September 10, 1956), painter
Pietro Salati (born March 10, 1920 in Lugano ; † August 2, 1975 ibid) (town Caneggio), painter, graphic artist, director of the Centro scolastico industrie artistiche in Lugano
Franco Biffi (born November 5, 1926 in Caneggio, † April 26, 2005 in Morbio Inferiore ), priest, professor and rector of the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome
Francesco Vella (born August 13, 1954 in Mendrisio ), painter and conceptual artist
Sabine Jo Balerna (born April 20, 1971 in Bern ), painter

literature

Stefania Bianchi: Caneggio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed January 8, 2020 .
Lili Götz-Günther: A contribution to the history of baroque architecture in Franconia. Dissertation (Sign. MS 23/2792 MF / Unter den Linden), State Library, Berlin 1923.
Mariusz Karpowicz: Artisti ticinesi in Polonia nel Seicento. Bellinzona 1983.
Giuseppe Martinola : Inventario d'Arte del Mendrisiotto. Volume I, Edizioni dello Stato, Bellinzona 1975, pp. 97-103.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 482–483.
Agostino Robertini, Silvano Toppi, Gian Piero Pedrazzi: Caneggio. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1974, pp. 91-110.
Ursula Stevens: The family relationships between the master builders Petrini from Caneggio in Muggio Valley, Ticino, the painter Petrini from Carona, Ticino, and the master builders Serro from Roveredo, Graubünden. In: Bollettino Genealogico della Svizzera Italiana. Volume 12, number 12, Tipografia Menghini SA, Poschiavo 2008, pp. 84–97.
Celestino Trezzini : Caneggio. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Brusino - Caux , Attinger, Neuchâtel 1924, p. 485 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Data from the municipality of Breggia
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Breggia
Caneggio: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Caneggio on www.flickr.com
Caneggio on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

^ Stefania Bianchi: Caneggio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 21, 2016 .

^ ^A ^b ^c Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 482–483.

↑ Football Club Real Caneggio ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Ursula Stevens: Gaspare Arcioni. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. Retrieved February 17, 2016 .
↑ Mariusz Smoliński: Petrini, Giovanni Battista. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 27, 2010 .
↑ Ursula Stevens: Antonio Giuseppe Petrini. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2016, accessed April 2, 2016 .
↑ Ursula Stevens: Paolo Baruzzi. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. Retrieved February 26, 2016 .
↑ Ursula Stevens: Antonio Carabelli. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. Retrieved March 13, 2016 .
↑ Ursula Stevens: Giovanni Patturelli. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2016, accessed April 1, 2016 .
↑ Giuseppe Maggi in (Italian) on ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti, accessed on July 19, 2015
^ Anacleto Arrigo. In: Sikart
^ Pietro Salati. In: Sikart , accessed January 5, 2016.
↑ Franco Biffi in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 11, 2016.)
↑ Francesco Vella. In: Sikart
^ Sabine Jo Balerna. In: Sikart

[1] Stefania Bianchi: Caneggio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 21, 2016 .

[Martinoli-2] A ^b ^c Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 482–483.