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Cugnasco
Cugnasco coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Locarno districtw
Circle : Navegna district
Municipality : Cugnasco-Gerrai2
Postal code : 6516
former BFS no. : 5104
Coordinates : 714 307  /  114802 coordinates: 46 ° 10 '30 "  N , 8 ° 55' 8"  O ; CH1903:  714,307  /  114802
Height : 225  m above sea level M.
Area : 17.1  km²
Residents: 1376 (December 31, 2007)
Population density : 80 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.cugnasco-gerra.ch
In Cugnasco

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Parish before the merger on April 19, 2008

Cugnasco is a fraction of the political municipality Cugnasco-Gerra in the Navegna district , in the Locarno district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland . This includes the hamlet of Agarone .

geography

Cugnasco is on the northern edge of the Magadino plain . The Ticino flows through the southernmost tip.

State

There is also a civil parish in Cugnasco . The public corporation consists of members of the following families in particular : Barbettini, Calzascia, Giulieri, Pellascio.

Merger project

In 2004/2005 a merger with Gerra Verzasca (piano) and Gerre di Sotto (part of the city of Locarno ) to the municipality of Cugnasco-Gerra failed . The previously independent municipality was merged with Gerra (Verzasca) on April 20, 2008 to form the new municipality of Cugnasco-Gerra.

population

Population development
year 1591 1760 1801 1850 1900 1950 1960 1990 2000 2007
Residents 285 325 279 349 433 473 428 821 1120 1373

Attractions

  • Parish Church of San Giuseppe
  • Old trot with fresco.

Personalities

  • Günther Weisenborn (born July 10, 1902 in Velbert , † March 26, 1969 in Berlin ), German writer and resistance fighter lived in Agarone
  • Lindi, actually Albert Lindegger, (born September 14, 1904 in Bern , † October 14, 1991 in Bellinzona ), von Geuensee , painter, Keramiler, sculptor, Antinazis lived in Agarone
  • Heinz Liepman (aka Liepmann; pseudonym: Jens C. Nielsen; born August 27, 1905 in Osnabrück ; † June 6, 1966 in the Agarone parliamentary group ), German writer, dramaturge, literary agent and anti-fascist.
  • Franco Tamò (born September 20, 1929 in Cugnasco; † December 14, 2002 ibid) (citizen of Sonogno ), painter, draftsman, graphic artist
  • Lauro Tognola (* 1933 in Locarno ; † December 1, 2016 ibid), he lived in Cugnasco, high school teacher, writer, journalist, former director of the teachers' college in Locarno, president of the Alliance française , president of the Fondazione Volkart
  • Fosco Spinedi (born February 18, 1956 in Salorino ), geographer, meteorologist, research assistant at MeteoSwiss ; Politician active in the executive branch of the municipality of Cugnasco.
  • Simone Rapp (born October 1, 1992), football player

Sports

  • Associazione Sportiva Riarena Gerra Piano-Cugnasco

literature

  • Piero Bianconi : Ditto. In: I dipinti murali della Verzasca. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1934, pp. 1, 39-49; same: Curogna. In: I dipinti murali della Verzasca. Pp. 48-52.
  • Rinaldo Giambonini, Agostino Robertini, Silvano Toppi: Cugnasco. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1971, pp. 108-118.
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Cugnasco. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007.
  • Giuseppe Mondada: Cugnasco. In: Catalogo delle pitture murali fino alla metà dell'Ottocento. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1934, pp. 91, 92, 93, 94; same: Ditto, Curogna e Cugnasco. Tipografia Pedrazzini, Locarno 1962.
  • Daniela Pauli Falconi: Cugnasco. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed January 8, 2020 .
  • Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, pp. 89-93.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Cugnasco. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Cavadini - Daegerlen. Attinger, Neuenburg 1924, p. 651 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Cugnasco. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b 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. 160–162.
  3. ↑ Günther Weisenborn (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti (accessed on: September 10, 2016.)
  4. ↑ Fred Zaugg: Lindi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 3, 2017 .
  5. ^ Fred Zaugg: Albert Lindegger. In: Sikart (status: 1998) (accessed October 3, 2016).
  6. ^ Albert Lindegger (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti (accessed on October 3, 2016).
  7. ↑ Heinz Liepman (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti (accessed on: September 10, 2016.)
  8. ^ Franco Tamò. In: Sikart
  9. ^ Franco Tamò on portal.dnb.de (accessed on March 16, 2017).
  10. ^ Tognola (Italian) in bibliomedia.ch, accessed December 27, 2015.
  11. ^ Fondazione Volkart
  12. ↑ Fosco Spinedi (Italian) on stsn.ch/chi-siamo/storia-della-stsn/i-presidenti/
  13. ↑ Associazione Sportiva Riarena Gerra Piano Cugnasco