Cugnasco-Gerra

Cugnasco-Gerra
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Ticino (TI)
District :	Locarno district
Circle :	Navegna district
BFS no. :	5138
Postal code :	6516 Cugnasco 6516 Gerra Piano 6635 Gerra (Verzasca)
Coordinates :	714 307  /  114802 coordinates: 46 ° 10 '30 "  N , 8 ° 55' 8"  O ; CH1903:  714,307  /  114802
Height :	225  m above sea level M.
Height range :	198-2518 m above sea level M.
Area :	35.82  km²
Residents:	2861 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	80 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.cugnasco-gerra.ch
Location of the municipality

Houses in Cugnasco

Cugnasco-Gerra ( tess. Cügnasch-Gèra ) is a municipality in the Navegna district , in the Locarno district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland . It is a merged church that was formed on April 20, 2008.

geography

Aerial photo from 600 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)

The village is located on the edge of the Magadino plain and included the place of the same name as well as the fractions Boscioredo, Bosco, Massarescio, Medoscio, Moncucco, Pianrestello and Sciarana. The mountain pastures of Monti di Ditto and Curogna are the oldest settlements in Cugnasco.

history

The village is mentioned as Cunyascho in 1374. In 2005, the merger of the municipality of Cugnasco with the exclave Gerre di Sotto of the city of Locarno and the exclave Gerra Piano of the municipality of Gerra (Verzasca) to the municipality of Cugnasco-Gerra did not materialize.

One of the reasons for the failure was that the old core area of ​​the municipality of Gerra in the central Verzasca valley after the separation of its exclave in the Magadino plain would have lost the majority of its population and had only around 200 inhabitants instead of 1200.

On April 20, 2008, the merger of Cugnasco with the entire municipality of Gerra (Verzasca) was implemented to form the new municipality of Cugnasco-Gerra (the Locarno Gerre di Sotto are not part of the merger area).

In the summer of 2010 a project was announced with which the entire area of ​​the Verzasca Valley is to be combined in one municipality, the exclave of Cugnasco-Gerra, the Gerra Valle area belongs to the fusion perimeter.

population

Population development
year	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Residents	2848	2890	2879	2898	2887	2909	2909	2877

Attractions

See also : List of Cultural Assets in Cugnasco-Gerra

• Parish Church of San Giuseppe
• Church of San Giovanni, in the Gerra Piano district
• Church of Santa Teresa del Bambino Gesù, in the district of Montedato
• Typical farmhouse
• Shell stone in the district of Piagn di Mòtt in Gerra (Verzasca) (950 m above sea level)

Sports

• Associazione Sportiva Riarena Gerra Piano-Cugnasco

Personalities

• Günther Weisenborn (born July 10, 1902 in Velbert, † March 26, 1969 in Berlin), German writer, resistance fighter.

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.
• Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni , Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, ISBN 978-88-8281-353-6 .
• Virgilio Gilardoni : I monumenti d'arte e di storia del Canton Ticino, volume III: L'alto Verbano II. I circoli del Gambarogno e della Navegna. (= The art monuments of Switzerland. Volume 73). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History SKG. Bern 1983, ISBN 3-7643-1500-8 , pp. 139-164.
• Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 160-162.
• Giuseppe Mondada: Cugnasco. In: Catalogo delle pitture murali fino alla metà dell'Ottocento. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1934, pp. 93, 94; same: Ditto, Curogna e Cugnasco. Tipografia Pedrazzini, Locarno 1962.
• Daniela Pauli Falconi: Cugnasco. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed December 31, 2019 .
• Daniela Pauli Falconi: Gerra (Verzasca). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed December 31, 2019 .
• Editor: Cugnasco Gerra. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed December 31, 2019 .
• Celestino Trezzini : Cugnasco. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Cavadini - Daegerlen. Attinger, Neuenburg 1924, p. 651 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Cugnasco-Gerra
• Data from the municipality of Cugnasco-Gerra
• Cugnasco inventory of cultural assets in the Canton of Ticino
• Gerra: Inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
• Gugnasco-Gerra on de.lagomaggiore.net, accessed November 25, 2015
• Cugnasco on elexikon.ch

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. ↑ Monti di Ditto on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
3. ↑ Editor: Cugnasco Gerra. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 28, 2016 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 160–162.
5. ^ Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni , Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, p. 62.
6. ↑ Associazione Sportiva Riarena Gerra Piano Cugnasco