Mairengo

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Leventina district

Circle :

Faido County

Municipality :

Faido

Postal code :

6763

former BFS no. :

5074

Coordinates :

703 609 / 149 523 coordinates: 46 ° 29 '20 " N , 8 ° 47' 17" O ; CH1903: 703,609 / one hundred and forty-nine thousand five hundred and twenty-three

Height :

909 m above sea level M.

Area :

6.6 km²

Residents:

488 (December 31, 2011)

Population density :

74 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.faido.ch

map

Parish before the merger on March 31, 2012

Bottom of the valley right: Faido, above: Mairengo and Osco. Center left: Dalpe , above: Rodi-Fiesso and Ambrì-Piotta airfield . Background from left: Poncione di Tremorgio, Fibbia , Galenstock , Pizzo Centrale , Pizzo Barbarera and Poncione Pro do Rodùc

Until March 31, 2012, Mairengo was a municipality in the Faido district , in the Leventina district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .

geography

Aerial photo (1954)

The village lies at an altitude of 909 m above sea level. M. in the middle of lush meadows and pastures; at the southern foot of Pizzo d'Era (2618 m above sea level) and 1.7 km northwest of the Faido station of the Swiss Federal Railways .

history

The village is mentioned for the first time in 1201 under the then name Mairencho . In the Middle Ages it belonged to Degagna Tarnolgio, which in turn was subordinate to the Vicinia (neighborhood) Faido and whose annual meetings took place alternately twice in Mairengo and once in Faido. At the time of the governors, the village shared the fate of the Leventina .

In 1827, emigrants from Mairengo in New York founded Delmonico's Restaurant , one of the first restaurants in the USA.

Merger with Faido

On April 1, 2012, it merged with the municipalities of Anzonico , Calpiogna , Campello , Cavagnago , Chironico and Osco to form the existing municipality of Faido.

The village of Mairengo is located on a sunny terrace on the left slope of the Leventina Valley at 920 meters. In a referendum in March 2004, the citizens of Mairengo rejected the merger of their municipality with Faido, Osco, Cavagnago, Calpiogna, Campello, Rossura , Anzonico, Chiggiogna , Calonico and Sobrio .

Mairengo includes Tortengo and Polmengo , as well as the Maiensäss Tarnolgio . In Polmengo, during the construction of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, there was a large construction site for the Faido intermediate attack.

population

Population development
year	1567	1745	1850	1900	1950	1980	2000	2011
Residents	34 households	163	170	198	189	375	272	488

Attractions

San Siro Church
In the cemetery, Delmonico's tomb
Jagmetti house in the Tortengo district
Oratory Santi Barnaba and Matteo in the district of Tarnolgio with painting Madonna with Saint Barnaba and Matteo by Bartholomeus Broder de Castelberger, 1760.

Personalities

Lorenzo Delmonico (* 1813 in Mairengo; † 1881 in New York City ), entrepreneur, hotelier
Riccardo Jagmetti (* 1929), politician
Carlo Jagmetti (* 1932), ambassador, lieutenant colonel in the general staff.

literature

Marina Bernasconi Reusser: Monumenti storici e documenti d'archivio. I “Materiali e Documenti Ticinesi” (MDT) quali fonti per la storia e le ricerche sull'architettura e l'arte medievale delle Tre Valli. In: Archivio Storico Ticinese. 2nd series, number 148, Casagrande, Bellinzona 2010, p. 220, 222, note 99, 227.
Piero Bianconi , Arminio Janner: Tarnolgio and Mairengo. In: Arte in Leventina. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1939, pp. 20, 31, 33, 44, 49, 57, 67, 71, 81; the same (ed.): Mairengo. In: Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Le Tre Valli Superiori. Leventina, Blenio, Riviera. Grassi & Co., Bellinzona 1948, pp. 119, 125.
Mario Fransioli: Mairengo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 16, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 38, 39, 254, 289, 299, 327, 348, 401-405, 471.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 132, 133, 135.
Agostino Robertini et al. a .: Mairengo. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1978, pp. 225-240.
Celestino Trezzini : Mairengo. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5, Maillard - Monod. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 3 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Website of the Faido municipality
Faido municipality data
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Faido (Italian)
Mairengo: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Mairengo on elexikon.ch
Lorenzo Delmonico Hotelier (Italian) on defanti.ch/dal-1903/lorenzo-delmoinco/

Individual evidence

↑ Mario Fransioli: Mairengo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 16, 2017 .
^ Church of San Siro
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 133-135.
↑ San Siro Church (photo)
^ Church of San Siro in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 14, 2016.)
↑ Lorenzo Delmonico on ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti/dalle-origini-al-1900/vite-di-emigranti-e-discendenti/
↑ Delmonico's Restaurant

[1] Mario Fransioli: Mairengo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 16, 2017 .

[2] Church of San Siro

[Martinoli-3] Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 133-135.

[4] San Siro Church (photo)

[5] Church of San Siro in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 14, 2016.)

[6] Lorenzo Delmonico on ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti/dalle-origini-al-1900/vite-di-emigranti-e-discendenti/

[7] Delmonico's Restaurant