Castel San Pietro TI
TI is the abbreviation for the canton of Ticino in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries in the name Castel San Pietro . |
Castel San Pietro | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Ticino (TI) |
District : | Mendrisio district |
Circle : | Balerna district |
BFS no. : | 5249 |
Postal code : | 6874 Castel San Pietro 6875 Casima 6875 Monte |
Coordinates : | 721 964 / 80042 |
Height : | 442 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 269–1614 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 11.84 km² |
Residents: | 2159 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 182 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | www.castelsanpietro.ch |
Castel San Pietro TI |
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Location of the municipality | |
Castel San Pietro is a municipality in the Balerna district , in the Mendrisio district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .
geography
Since April 4, 2004, the former independent parishes of Casima with the church of San Carlo from the 18th century, district of Monte and at the same time Campora, formerly part of the municipality of Caneggio , are included in the municipality of Castel San Pietro. Castel San Pietro extends over the entire western side of the Muggiotal ( Italian: Valle di Muggio) to Monte Generoso . The municipality includes the fraction of Corteglia .
Neighboring municipalities are Mendrisio , Breggia , Coldrerio , Balerna , Morbio Inferiore , Melano and Rovio .
history
The village was first mentioned in 865 when the imperial follower Sigeradus donated the place to the monastery of Sant'Ambrogio (Milan) . From the middle of the 13th century, the village was owned by the Bishop of Como and the Rusconi family. In 1171 the village was called Castellum Sancti Petri . The Bishop of Como, Bonifatius Quadri from Modena , built a church in the castle (1343), which was later called the red church in memory of the bloody quarrel between the Bosia and Rusconi in 1390 .
population
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year | 1643 | 1685 | 1696 | 1769 | 1801 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 1970 | 2000 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2017 | |||||||
Residents | 479 | 563 | 541 | 623 | 610 | 874 | 898 | 1131 | 1500 | 1728 | 2000 | 2050 | 2079 | 2130 |
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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 of Sant'Eusebio from the 17th century (architect Agostino Silva )
- Church of San Pietro (Red Church), built in 1343 on the foundations of the early Middle Ages
- Church of Sant'Antonino, in the Obino district from the 15th century with frescoes
- Church dell'Addolorata and San Carlo in the district of Casima
- Church of Sant'Antonio abate in the Monte TI district
- Villa Turconi in the district of Loverciano, built 1671–1723 with a park
- Tombs from Roman times
- San Pietro Castle (ruin)
- Stone bridge in the district of Campora
- Breggiaschluchten accessible since 2001.
Personalities
literature
- Edoardo Agustoni: I Carabelli di Obino e Giuseppe Antonio Felice Orelli di Locarno. In: Il Cantonetto. 47./48. Volume, number 1, Fontana Print, Pregassona 2011, pp. 23–26.
- Stefania Bianchi: Castel San Pietro. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 25, 2005 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
- Simona Martinoli u. a .: Castel San Pietro. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007.
- Giuseppina Ortelli Taroni: Castel San Pietro. Storia e vita quotidiana. Edizioni della Società svizzera per le tradizioni popolari, Basilea 1994.
- Johann Rudolf Rahn , I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, pp. 78–82, (Gorla) p. 117.
- Ursula Stevens: Francesco Pozzi: 1704 Bruzella - 1789 Castel San Pietro; sulle tracce di uno stuccatore ticinese. Tipo Print, Mendrisio 2007.
- Celestino Trezzini : Castel San Pietro. In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland , Volume 2: Brusino - Caux. Attinger, Neuenburg 1924, p. 508 ( digitized version ).
- RM: The "Capella Rossa" in Castel S.Pietro In: Architektur und Kunst , Vol. 14, 1927, pp. 366–368
Web links
- Web presence of the municipality of Castel San Pietro
- Data from the municipality of Castel San Pietro
- Castel San Pietro:
- Campora:
- Federal inventory ISOS: Campora (PDF; 1.4 MB)
- Campora: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
- Campora on elexikon.ch
- Monte
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Monte in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 2, 2016)
- ↑ Corteglia in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 2, 2016)
- ^ A b Stefania Bianchi: Castel San Pietro. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 16, 2005 .
- ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 475–479
- ↑ Church of San Pietro (Red Church)
- ^ Villa Turconi