Contone

Contone
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Ticino (TI)
District :	Locarno district
Circle :	Gambarogno district
Municipality :	Gambarogno
Postal code :	6594
Coordinates :	714 906  /  111885 coordinates: 46 ° 8 '55 "  N , 8 ° 55' 33"  O ; CH1903:  714906  /  111885
Height :	206  m above sea level M.
Area :	2.3  km²
Residents:	819 (December 31, 2008)
Population density :	356 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.gambarogno.ch
map

Parish before the merger on March 24, 2010

Parish Church of San Giovanni Battista

View of Contone and the Magadino plain

Luserte industrial area

Contone , in the Lombard local dialect Cuntugn [kumˈtuŋ] , is a district of the municipality of Gambarogno in the district of the same name , district of Locarno , in the Swiss canton of Ticino . It formed an independent political community until April 24, 2010 .

geography

Aerial photo (1964)

The rural village is at an altitude of 206 m above sea level. M. on the southern edge of the Magadino plain , two kilometers from Lake Langen . Contone is surrounded by chestnut forests and vineyards.

history

The name of the later community is first mentioned in 1152 as Gondono . But as early as 1104, the noble Longobard Wido von Samarate had a church consecrated to St. Nicholas built or rebuilt and donated it to the Benedictine monastery of San Giorgio in the district of Quartino. The church later fell apart and the parish church became San Giovanni Battista, the hospital church rebuilt in the 16th century. The origin and location of a hospital of the Order of St. John mentioned in 1219 are controversial. In 1497 the Duke of Milan, Ludovico il Moro , proposed Contone to the re-formed County of Angera . Contone later became a commander of the Order of Malta, whose goods were transferred to the hospital in Lugano in the 16th century and to the Antognini family of Bellinzona in 1811 . The confederates allow Contone 1731–1741 and 1788–1798 to levy a duty to maintain the road.

On November 25, 2007, the merger of the municipalities on the southern shore of Lake Maggiore to form the new municipality of Gambarogno was approved by the voters of the municipalities of Caviano , Contone, Gerra (Gambarogno) , Indemini , Magadino , Piazzogna , Sant'Abbondio and Vira (Gambarogno) . Only San Nazzaro was mostly against it. An appeal was lodged with the Federal Supreme Court against the decision of the Ticino Grand Council to carry out the merger as planned. After the complaint was rejected, the merger took effect on April 25, 2010.

population

Population development
year	1683	1795	1850	1870	1900	1950	1990	2000	2008
Residents	71	71	139	336	199	305	430	703	819

coat of arms

Blazon : split between blue and red, covered by a silver (white) Maltese cross

The coat of arms shows the reversed colors of the canton, on it the Maltese cross as a reference to the local commander (order branch).

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Gambarogno

• Parish Church of San Giovanni Battista
• Old Romanesque church of Saint Nicola of Bari .

Sports

• Football Club Contone

Personalities

• Adamo de Contone (* around 1160 in Como , † after 1205 in Giubiasco ), landlord in Contone, Giubiasco, in the Blenio valley and in the area of Bellinzona
• Fausto Leoni (born March 23, 1921 in Contone), painter, sculptor
• Diego Invernizzi (January 13, 1935 - September 30, 2014), typesetter, editor

literature

• Virgilio Gilardoni : I monumenti d'arte e di storia del Canton Ticino. Vol. III: L'alto Verbano II. I circoli del Gambarogno e della Navegna (= The art monuments of Switzerland. Volume 73). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History SKG. Bern 1983, ISBN 3-7643-1500-8 , pp. 24-27.
• 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 .
• Agostino Robertini, Silvano Toppi, Gian Piero Pedrazzi: Contone. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1974, pp. 179-192.
• Graziano Tarilli: Contone. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed January 8, 2020 .
• Celestino Trezzini : Contone. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2: Cavadini - Daegerlen. Attinger, Neuenburg 1924, p. 618 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Gambarogno
• Data from the municipality of Gambarogno
• Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Gambarogno (Italian)
• Contone: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
• Catalogo ASTI, Contone at www3.ti.ch/DECS/dcsu/ac/asti/cff/ (accessed on December 11, 2017)
• Contone on e-lexicon.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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. 257.
2. ^ Graziano Tarilli: Contone. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed February 4, 2020 .
3. ^ ^{A b} Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History , Bellinzona 2007, p. 153.
4. ^ Football Club Contone
5. ↑ Paolo Ostinelli: Adamo da Contone. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 3, 20002 , accessed January 17, 2020 .
6. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Adamo de Contone. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 1: A - Advokat. Attinger, Neuenburg 1921, p. 97 ( digitized version (accessed May 7, 2017)
7. ↑ Fausto Leoni. In: Sikart , accessed January 25, 2016.
8. ^ Diego Invernizzi
9. ↑ Diego Invernizzi died