Massagno

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Massagno
Massagno coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Lugano districtw
Circle : Vezia county
BFS no. : 5196i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 6900
Coordinates : 716 669  /  96836 coordinates: 46 ° 0 '47 "  N , 8 ° 56' 42"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred sixteen thousand six hundred sixty-nine  /  96836
Height : 352  m above sea level M.
Height range : 326–439 m above sea level M.
Area : 0.74  km²
Residents: 6226 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 8414 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.massagno.ch
Location of the municipality
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Albairone block of flats

Massagno is a political municipality in the district of Vezia in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland and, as a suburban municipality, borders directly on Lugano .

coat of arms

The tree on the Massagno coat of arms is a chestnut tree. The coat of arms reminds of the position of the municipality on a hill rich in chestnuts.

geography

Massagno has an area of ​​0.73 km 2 and is therefore one of the smallest municipalities in Switzerland in terms of area (at position 13 in the list, which is arranged in ascending order by area and contains all 2212 municipalities, as of January 1, 2019). The community is between 361 and 387 m above sea level. M. The neighboring communities are Lugano and Savosa .

history

The old district of Gerso

The village was first mentioned in 1146 under the then name Masagnio , 1198 Maxanio . Massagno was already a vicinìa in the Middle Ages ; the hamlet of Gerso was probably attached to it later. The collegiate church of San Lorenzo of Lugano had basic rights there in 1198. Around 1600 almost all of the residents, except for a few people, died of the plague epidemic.

population

«During the strong demographer. During the growth of the 1960s, M., who had previously lived from agriculture and seasonal emigration, changed primarily to a residential community with brisk construction activity. "

Population development
year 1698 1820 1850 1880 1900 1927 1950 1970 2000 2010 2012 2014 2017 2018
Residents 35 households 258 343 580 773 1500 2304 5214 5558 5852 5942 6121 6268 6466

Massagno has the second highest population density of all Swiss municipalities after Geneva , namely 8,586.3 inhabitants per km 2 ( list of Swiss municipalities , as of January 1, 2019).

religion

The old church "Santa Lucia" in Massagno , demolished in 1931 to widen the Via del San Gottardo
Piazza Santa Lucia in Massagno (2019)

At the 2000 census, 3,837 residents, or 68%, were Roman Catholic, while 362, or 6.5%, belonged to the Reformed Swiss Church. There were 1,054 people (about 19%) who belonged to another church or to no church, and 305 people (about 5.4% of the population) did not answer the question. There is the Roman Catholic. Parish of Santa Lucia.

traffic

Massagno is located in the immediate vicinity of the SBB Lugano station on the Gotthard axis, which leads through the Gotthard Base Tunnel , which opened in 2018 , and thus on its main axis Zurich - Milan. The Ceneri base tunnel , planned to open in 2020, is still under construction, which will improve the S-Bahn connection from Lugano (and thus also Massagnos) to the cities of Bellinzona and Locarno . The travel time between Locarno and Lugano should be reduced from 55 to 22 minutes with the new tunnel.

“Trincea” in Massagno

It is planned to cover the "trench (trincea)" in which the railroad tracks run in front of the northern entrance to the Lugano train station and which cuts the area of ​​the municipality of Massagno, and to create a park on the area that is being created.

Massagno is located directly at the Lugano-Süd slip road to Autobahn 2 (Gotthard route) Basel - Milan.

On the history of transport: The Lugano-Tesserete-Bahn was a meter- gauge narrow - gauge railway to Tesserete that had started in 1907 from the Lugano station . The first stop after Lugano train station was in Massagno. The railway was electrified from the start; it was replaced by a bus route in 1967.

politics

Municipal Parliament

The municipal parliament, the legislative power, consists of 30 members. It was elected for the 2016-2020 term of office by the voters of the municipality and comprises the following parties:

  • Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP) with 14 councilors
  • Socialist Party (SP) and Swiss Green Party (GPS) with 6 municipal councils
  • Lega dei Ticinesi (Lega) with 5 municipal councils
  • FDP. The Liberals (FDP) with 5 municipal councils

Municipal council

The parish council is the executive body; it consists of an odd number of members (maximum seven) who are elected every four years by the community's voters. The last elections were in 2016. The following municipal councils were elected (their departments in brackets):

  • Giovanni Bruschetti, Mayor (Administration - Culture - Finance - Electricity Company)
  • Paola Bagutti, Vice Mayor (Construction)
  • Sabrina Gendotti (Public Safety - Tourism - Valgersa Sports Center)
  • Giovanni Pozzi (Education - Leisure and Associations - Culture - Law)
  • Renato Tami (development plan - traffic and road network)
  • Anke van der Mei Lombardi (Social Security - Public Health)
  • Adriano Venuti (youth issues - environmental protection - building authority)

Attractions

Mario Botta, Robbiani family house
Massagno (1950)
  • Parish church of Santa Lucia with Renaissance paintings; in the interior paintings Adorazione dei Magi (16th century), Annunciazione (1636), Santa Lucia (17th century) and stained glass windows by Capuchins fra 'Roberto Pasotti. The old parish church of Santa Lucia from 1530 was demolished in 1931 as the Via del San Gottardo was widened
  • Oratorio Madonna della Salute (1710)
  • Oratory of Sant'Antonio da Padova (1670) in the Gerso district
  • Prayer Chapel In Selva in the Rovello district; with frescoes (15th century)
  • Apartment block Albairone (1955/1956), architect: Peppo Brivio
  • Residential house with decorative paintings
  • Palace with fireplace, stucco work and family coat of arms, fresco Giuditta and Oloferne
  • Residential house Boni, Architects: Mario Campi , Franco Pessina
  • Row building, architects: Mario Campi and Franco Pessina
  • Villa Elisa, architect: Adolfo Brunel
  • Residential house, architect: Franco Ponti
  • Apartment house Cate, architect: Peppo Brivio, 1958
  • Apartment house, architects: Aldo Nolli & Pia Durisch. Year of construction: 2003
  • Single family home, architect: Franco Ponti
  • Single-family house Robbiani, architect: Mario Botta
  • Fountain with Janus mask
  • Old car wash

Companies

Sports

  • The basketball team SAM Basket Massagno plays in the National League A , the top division of men in Switzerland.
  • Football Club Savosa-Massagno
  • Società Atletica Massagno
  • Esploratori Tre Pini Massagno

Personalities

literature

  • Virgilio Gilardoni , Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, p. 411.
  • Antonio Gili: Massagno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 23, 2010 .
  • Guida generale della città di Lugano e dei comuni limitrofi di Paradiso, Castagnola, Viganello, Massagno. Arnold, Lugano 1932.
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 291-292.
  • Domenico Robbiani: Massagno. Note storiche. , Gaggini-Bizzozero, 2nd edition, Lugano 1970.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Massagno. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5, Maillard - Monod. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, pp. 45, 46 ( digitized version ).
  • Heinz Wirz: Durisch + Nolli. Quart-Verlag, Lucerne 2011.

Web links

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

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. ↑ Flags of the World.com. Retrieved May 8, 2019
  3. ↑ List of Swiss municipalities
  4. ^ Antonio Gili: Massagno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 10, 2019 .
  5. ^ Antonio Gili: Massagno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 10, 2019 .
  6. ^ Antonio Gili: Massagno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 10, 2019 .
  7. ^ Massagno mantiene alta la sua popolazione. January 22, 2019, accessed May 7, 2019 (Italian).
  8. ↑ Popolazione residente, secondo la lingua principale e la religione, nel 2000 2011-07-07 on the Wayback Machine (Italian,) accessed May 17, 2019
  9. ^ Parish of Santa Lucia on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 31, 2016.)
  10. ↑ Marco Ceriani: Ceneri Base Tunnel: Current construction progress and outlook . In: tunnel . tape 34 , no. 4 , 2015, ISSN  0722-6241 , p. 12-25 .
  11. ↑ Un anno decisivo per la trincea. In: CdT.ch ( Corriere del Ticino ). January 13, 2019, accessed August 17, 2019 (Italian).
  12. ^ Official website of the municipality of Massagno , accessed on May 26, 2019
  13. ^ Official website of the municipality of Massagno , accessed on May 26, 2019
  14. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 291–292.
  15. ↑ Apartment block Albairone (PDF; 80 kB)
  16. ↑ Apartment block Albairone on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 31, 2016.)
  17. ↑ Apartment block Albairone on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/en/node
  18. ↑ Apartmenthaus Cate on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 24, 2016.)
  19. ↑ Casa Cate on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/en/node
  20. ↑ Apartment house on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/en/node
  21. ↑ Centro Didattico Cantonale on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 31, 2016.)
  22. ↑ Azienda Elettrica Comunale on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 31, 2016.)
  23. ↑ Durisch + Nolli Architects on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 31, 2016.)
  24. ↑ Football Club Savosa-Massagno (accessed on: May 31, 2016.)
  25. ↑ Società Atletica Massagno in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 31, 2016.)
  26. ^ Esploratori Tre Pini Massagno
  27. ^ Guida generale della città di Lugano e dei comuni limitrofi di Paradiso, Castagnola, Viganello, Massagno. at portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 31, 2016.)