Cugnasco
Cugnasco | ||
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State : | Switzerland | |
Canton : | Ticino (TI) | |
District : | Locarno district | |
Circle : | Navegna district | |
Municipality : | Cugnasco-Gerra | |
Postal code : | 6516 | |
former BFS no. : | 5104 | |
Coordinates : | 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 | |
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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 | ||||||||||
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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
- Data from the municipality of Cugnasco-Gerra
- Cugnasco: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
- Renzo Dionigi: Curogna, oratorio Santi Anna e Cristoforo with frescoes on www.flickr.com
- Cugnasco on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Cugnasco. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 .
- ^ 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.
- ↑ Günther Weisenborn (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti (accessed on: September 10, 2016.)
- ↑ Fred Zaugg: Lindi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 3, 2017 .
- ^ Fred Zaugg: Albert Lindegger. In: Sikart (status: 1998) (accessed October 3, 2016).
- ^ Albert Lindegger (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti (accessed on October 3, 2016).
- ↑ Heinz Liepman (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti (accessed on: September 10, 2016.)
- ^ Franco Tamò. In: Sikart
- ^ Franco Tamò on portal.dnb.de (accessed on March 16, 2017).
- ^ Tognola (Italian) in bibliomedia.ch, accessed December 27, 2015.
- ^ Fondazione Volkart
- ↑ Fosco Spinedi (Italian) on stsn.ch/chi-siamo/storia-della-stsn/i-presidenti/
- ↑ Associazione Sportiva Riarena Gerra Piano Cugnasco