Magadino

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Magadino
Magadino coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Locarno districtw
Circle : Gambarogno district
Municipality : Gambarognoi2
Postal code : 6573
UN / LOCODE : CH QUA (Quartino)
Coordinates : 709 514  /  111778 coordinates: 46 ° 8 '55 "  N , 8 ° 51' 22"  O ; CH1903:  709514  /  111778
Height : 199  m above sea level M.
Area : 7.3  km²
Residents: 1642 (December 31, 2008)
Population density : 225 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.gambarogno.ch
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Parish before the merger on March 24, 2010
Parish Church of San Carlo Borromeo
Villa Ghisler
Giovanni Arrivabene
Albergo del Battello a Vapore
Forte Olimpio
Magadino and the Bolle (1943)

Magadino , in the Lombard local dialect Magadign [magaˈdiŋ] , 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 photograph by Walter Mittelholzer (1933)

The village of Magadino is located at an altitude of 199 m above sea level. M. am Langensee , the Quartino fraction east of it. The Ticino flows into the lake near Magadino .

history

Magadino is mentioned in the late Middle Ages in connection with feudal rights which the bishops of Como transferred to the Capitanei of Locarno . The village was first mentioned in 1254 with the current form of the name de Magadino . In Quartino there was a Benedictine priory in the high and late Middle Ages , the patron saint of which was St. George; in the 17th century the monastery goods came to the hospital in Locarno. There are no more traces of a tower mentioned in 1335 and a fort mentioned in the 17th century. Magadino separated from Vira (Gambarogno) in 1846 .

Magadino was an important port and an important customs post on the transit route from Lombardy to the cities north of the Alps. With the introduction of regular steamboat traffic on Lake Langensee (1826) and the opening of the route over the Gotthard Pass (1830) it became a stagecoach station. The port's decline began with the opening of the railway lines to Locarno (1874) and Luino (1882).

The dam site Magadino Gordola had job to fend off any attacks from Italy with the attachments between Magadino and Quartino that threatened the Gambarogno, Lake Maggiore and the embankment on the right lake side and the Centovalli ago. These were built during the First World War and expanded during the Second .

On November 25, 2007, the merger of the nine municipalities on the south bank of Lake Maggiore to form the 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.

coat of arms

Blazon: A golden anchor over silver and blue divided five times with a wavy cut.

population

Population development
year 1850 1880 1900 1920 1950 2000 2008
Residents 586 901 725 784 821 1449 1642

Attractions

The village image is classified in the inventory of protected sites in Switzerland (ISOS) as a site of national importance in Switzerland.

  • Parish Church of San Carlo Borromeo
  • Church of San Nicola di Bari (1953), architect: Giacomo Alberti
  • House called Hostaria di San Carlo
  • Villa Ghisler
  • Fortresses Gambarogno-Magadino
  • Forte Olimpo
  • Bolle of Magadino (Bolle di Magadino) in the Magadino plain
  • Schalenstein in the Strada romana district (335 m above sea level)

Culture

  • Festival Internazionale di Musica Organistica di Magadino.

Personalities

  • Giovanni Arrivabene (1787–1881), economist, author examined the situation of workers in Magadino
  • The Antognini von Vairano family came from Milan and came to Vairano in 1730, where they acquired citizenship. It is currently represented in Magadino, Bellinzona and Lugano .
    • Giuseppe Antognini (* 1813 in Magadino; † 1877 there), entrepreneur, businessman, mayor of Magadino, Ticino Grand Councilor
    • Benigno Antognini (born November 17, 1837 in Magadino, † December 9, 1902 in Bellinzona ), lawyer and notary, Ticino Grand Councilor, Councilor of State, judge at the Court of Appeal
    • Giovanni Battista Antognini (* 1838 in Magadino; † 1919 in the canton of Basel-Landschaft), citizen of Magadino, merchant, mayor of Magadino, school inspector
  • Luigi Favini (born April 4, 1908 in Magadino; † around 1980 in Zurich?), Organist, brass orchestra master and composer; 1932–1980 organist at the Liebfrauenkirche in Zurich; Co-founder of the Magadino Organ Festival in 1963

literature

Web links

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

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. 560.
  2. ↑ Fortress Oberland: Lock point Magadino
  3. ^ Graziano Tarilli: Magadino. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed December 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 153-154.
  6. ↑ Gambarogno-Magadino fortresses on forti.ch
  7. ^ Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, pp. 68–69.
  8. ^ Festival Internazionale di Musica Organistica di Magadino
  9. ↑ Carlo AGLIATI: Giuovanni Arrivabene. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 20, 2001. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
  10. ^ Alberto Azzi: L'attività commerciale di Giuseppe Antognini a Magadino tra la Svizzera tedesca e l'Italie del nord, nella metà dell'Ottocento. DECS, Bellinzona 2015; the same: La famiglia Antognini a Magadino. Una dinastia di mercanti. In: Bollettino Genealogico della Svizzera Italiana 23, 2019, pp. 47–58.
  11. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Benigno Antognini. In Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume I, p. 389 (accessed on January 10, 2020)
  12. ^ Fabrizio Panzera: Benigno Antognini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 25, 2001 , accessed January 10, 2020 .
  13. ^ Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, p. 15.
  14. ^ Celestino Trezzini: Giovanni Antognini. In Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume I, 389 (accessed on May 15, 2017).
  15. ↑ Luigi Favini (Italian) on ricercamusica.ch/dizionario/ (accessed on: November 15, 2017.)