Gnosca

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Gnosca
Gnosca coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Bellinzona districtw
Circle : Bellinzona district
Municipality : Bellinzonai2
Postal code : 6525
former BFS no. : 5006
Coordinates : 722 010  /  121534 coordinates: 46 ° 14 '3 "  N , 9 ° 1' 13"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and twenty-two thousand and ten  /  121534
Height : 276  m above sea level M.
Area : 7.5  km²
Residents: 752 (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 100 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.bellinzona.ch
Gnosca

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Parish before the merger on April 1, 2017
Gnosca parish in 1953

Gnosca [ ˈɲɔska ] ( Lombard Gnuscu [ˈɲuʃku ˈɲoʃko] ) is a district of the municipality of Bellinzona in the Swiss canton of Ticino . By April 1, 2017, it formed an independent political municipality that belonged to the then Ticino district .

geography

The village is located on the right bank of the Ticino River at the entrance to the Riviera , opposite Claro , in the north of the municipality of Bellinzona.

history

The village is first attested to in 1198 as Niosca . The linguistic meaning of the place name is unclear.

From prehistoric time, little is known; In 1898 bronze objects from the Etruscan era were discovered .

In the Middle Ages Gnosca belonged to the Gastalde Claro. Milan and the Diocese of Como simultaneously raised claims to Gnosca, and in 1335 the place is also mentioned as being under the rule of Bellinzona.

On April 2, 2017, Gnosca joined the municipality of Bellinzona at the same time as the municipalities of Camorino , Claro , Giubiasco , Gorduno , Gudo , Moleno , Monte Carasso , Pianezzo , Preonzo , Sant'Antonio and Sementina .

population

Population development
year 1602 1801 1850 1900 1950 2000 2010 2016
Residents 240 258 195 216 280 514 681 752

Attractions

  • The church of San Pietro Martire is first mentioned in the 13th century
  • Church ruins of San Giovanni Battista.

Sports

  • Associazione Sportiva Gnosca

Personalities

  • The da Gnosca family, descended from the Locarno noble family Magoria and, like them, belonged to the nobility association of the Capitanei. She resided in the Gnosca Castle, which gave her its name, from the 13th century.
  • Ubertino da Gnosca (* around 1340; † before 1407 in Gnosca?), Mentioned from 1362 in Claro; In 1374 the canons of the Milan Cathedral Chapter granted him undivided jurisdiction in the area of ​​Gnosca and Gorduno for one year .
  • Antonio Masotti (* around 1450 in Gnosca; † after 1510 there), military engineer for the Duke of Milan ; traceable in Bellinzona from 1470 to 1510; In 1477 he worked on the consolidation of part of the city wall, from the Porta nuova or Porta di Locarno to the Tower del Sasso; In February 1507 Bellinzona entrusted him with the repair of the Moësa Bridge .
  • Stefano Sposetti (1958 in Milan ), Swiss amateur astronomer and asteroid discoverer, lives in Gnosca.
  • Flavio Stroppini (* 1979), journalist, writer

literature

  • Giuseppe Chiesi: Gnosca. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 5, 2017. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  • Virgilio Gilardoni : Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Edizioni dello Stato. Bellinzona 1955, pp. 204-209; the same: Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 37, 301, 363-366, 423.
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 55-57.
  • Agostino Robertini et al. a .: Gnosca. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1978, pp. 129-140.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Gnosca. In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland , Volume 3: Giovanoli - Grasset. Attinger, Neuenburg 1926, p. 576 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 394.
  2. ^ Giuseppe Chiesi: Gnosca. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 5, 2017 , accessed February 4, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by the Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 55–57.
  4. ^ Associazione Sportiva Gnosca
  5. ↑ Paolo Ostinelli: Gnosca, da. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 24, 2005 .
  6. ↑ Paolo Ostinelli: Ubertino da Gnosca. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 15, 2004 , accessed December 28, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Antonio Masotti at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 17, 2017).
  8. ↑ Flavio Stroppini (Italian) in bibliomedia.ch, accessed December 27, 2015.