Castaneda GR

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Castaneda
Castaneda coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : canton of Grisonscanton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region : Moesa
BFS no. : 3805i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 6540
Coordinates : 731 179  /  124 374 coordinates: 46 ° 15 '29 "  N , 9 ° 8' 24"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and thirty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-nine  /  one hundred twenty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-four
Height : 750  m above sea level M.
Height range : 388–1781 m above sea level M.
Area : 3.96  km²
Residents: 275 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 69 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.castaneda.ch
Castaneda GR

Castaneda GR

Location of the municipality
Comer See Lago di Mezzola Lago di Montespluga Lago di Lei Lago d'Isola Lago de Buseno Sufnersee Zervreilasee Italien Kanton Tessin Region Viamala Region Maloja Region Surselva Buseno Calanca Castaneda GR Rossa GR Santa Maria in Calanca Lostallo Mesocco Soazza Cama GR Grono Grono Roveredo GR San Vittore GR San Vittore GRMap of Castaneda
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Castaneda is a municipality in the Moesa region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland .

geography

Historical aerial photo by Werner Friedli (1954)

Castaneda lies on a terrace in the southern Calancatal 500 meters above the confluence of the Calancasca with the Moësa . Of the entire municipal area of ​​394 hectares, 302 hectares are covered by forest and wood. Another 61 hectares are unproductive areas, mostly mountains. Only 15 hectares are agricultural land and 16 hectares are settlement areas.

Castaneda borders Buseno , Grono , Roveredo GR , Santa Maria in Calanca and Verdabbio .

history

The village is the first community at the entrance to the Calanca valley . Their area was settled as early as the first Iron Age. The finds are in the Rätisches Museum in Chur , the Landesmuseum Zurich and the British Museum in London .

population

Population development
year 1808 1850 1860 1900 1950 1960 2000 2004 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2017
Residents 129 188 232 178 182 151 221 230 233 226 236 240 265 277

Of the 230 residents at the end of 2004, 211 (= 91.74%) were Swiss citizens.

politics

The mayor is Savioni Attilio (as of 2018).

Attractions

  • The Castaneda schoolhouse
  • necropolis
  • Schalenstein (character stone) on the border with the municipalities of Roveredo GR , Buseno and San Vittore GR (1010 m above sea level)

Personalities

  • Giovanni Pietro Giovanelli (* around 1540 in Castaneda; † after 1583 there), Podestà von Bormio (1581–1583)
  • Giovanni Antonio Gioiero (* around 1570 in Castaneda; † September 16, 1624 in Castione ), head of court in the Calanca Valley and Podestà of Morbegno
  • Giovanni Battista Giovanelli (* around 1620 in Castaneda; † after 1681 ibid), public notary, Podestà im Piuro (1667–1669) (1679–1681)
  • Emilio Cerroti (born October 31, 1859 Castaneda; † March 23, 1909 Geneva), painter

literature

  • Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, ISBN 978-88-8281-353-6 .
  • Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, p. 515.
  • Patrick Nagy, Cesare Santi: Castaneda. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 20, 2005 .
  • Erwin Poeschel : The Art Monuments of the Canton of Graubünden, Volume VI: The Italian Graubünden valleys of Puschlav, Misox and Calanca. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 17). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1945, ISBN 978-3-906131-55-9 .
  • Tommaso Semadeni: Castaneda. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Brusino - Caux. Attinger, Neuenburg 1921, p. 508 ( digitized version ).
  • Various authors: Castaneda. In: Storia dei Grigioni , 3 volumes, Collana "Storia dei Grigioni", Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ Patrick Nagy, Cesare Santi: Castaneda. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 20, 2005 .
  3. ^ Castaneda schoolhouse
  4. ^ Aldo Crivelli: La necropoli di Castaneda. In: Rivista Storica Ticinese , Anno 9, N. 1-6, Gennaio-Dicembre 1946, Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1946, p. 1230.
  5. ^ Franco Binda, Locarno 2013, p. 132.
  6. ↑ Giovanni Pietro Giovanelli on e-periodica.ch (accessed on January 9, 2017).
  7. ^ Cesare Santi: Giovanni Antonio Gioiero. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 2, 2004 , accessed April 6, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Giovanni Battista Giovanelli on e-periodica.ch (accessed on January 9, 2017).
  9. ↑ Emilio Cerroti. In: Sikart