Medeglia
Medeglia | ||
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State : | Switzerland | |
Canton : | Ticino (TI) | |
District : | Bellinzona district | |
Circle : | Giubiasco district | |
Municipality : | Monteceneri | |
Postal code : | 6809 | |
former BFS no. : | 5011 | |
Coordinates : | 718.34 thousand / 108243 | |
Height : | 706 m above sea level M. | |
Area : | 6.2 km² | |
Residents: | 351 (December 31, 2009) | |
Population density : | 57 inhabitants per km² | |
Website: | www.monteceneri.ch | |
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Until November 20, 2010, Medeglia was a municipality in the Giubiasco district in the Bellinzona district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .
geography
The village is located at 706 m above sea level. M. on the right bank of the Vedeggio river. Neighboring communities were Cadenazzo , Isone , Bironico , Camignolo and Capriasca .
history
The village was first mentioned in 1195 under the then name Medellia . It communicated with the former municipality of Robasacco , now part of Cadenazzo.
Community merger
On November 25, 2007, the merger of the seven municipalities in the Vedeggio Valley was approved by the voters of five municipalities: Bironico, Camignolo, Medeglia, Rivera and Sigirino should therefore have merged to form the municipality of Monteceneri . Isone and Mezzovico-Vira rejected the merger. As a result, the State Council refrained from asking the Grand Council a compulsory merger of the two negative municipalities. Monteceneri was therefore only formed from the five consenting municipalities.
population
Population development | |||||||||
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year | 1591 | 1709 | 1801 | 1850 | 1900 | 1920 | 1950 | 2000 | 2009 |
Residents | 370 | 433 | 543 | 469 | 383 | 366 | 331 | 330 | 351 |
Attractions
- Parish Church of San Bartolomeo with tabernacle
- Oratory of Santi Giulio d'Orta, Antonio abate and San Lucio of Cavargna, in the Canedo district
- Various praying chapels
- Old oven
- Fortifications in the Monti di Medeglia district .
photos
Sports
- Società Atletica Isone-Medeglia
Personalities
- Bernardo Bagutti (* around 1500 in Medeglia; † after April 14, 1500), from Medaglia, was one of the Sindaci and Procuratori of the municipality of Isone who signed the annexation treaty of this municipality with the city and county of Bellinzona on April 14, 1500 .
- Mauro Gianetti (born March 16, 1964 in Lugano ) (Burgerort Medeglia), former Swiss professional cyclist
literature
- Giuseppe Chiesi, Fernando Zappa: Terre della Carvina. Storia e tradizioni dell'Alto Vedeggio. Armando Dadò, Locarno 1991.
- Rinaldo Giambonini, Agostino Robertini, Silvano Toppi: Medeglia. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1971, pp. 165-174.
- Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 45, 256, 375, 411-412, 426, 527, 546.
- Raimondo Locatelli, Adriano Morandi: Alto Vedeggio ieri e oggi: i sette Comuni da Sigirino a Isone. Edizioni Rivista di Lugano, Lugano 2005.
- Simona Martinoli u. a .: Medeglia. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 .
- Graziano Tarilli: Medeglia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
- Celestino Trezzini : Medeglia. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5, Maillard - Monod. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 62 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Monteceneri
- Data from the municipality of Monteceneri
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Monteceneri
- Medeglia: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
- Fortifications in Alpe del Tiglio ( Memento from August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Medeglia on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ^ Graziano Tarilli: Medeglia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 4th January 2017 .
- ↑ a b c d e Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 274–275.
- ^ Società Atletica Isone-Medeglia
- ↑ Bernardo Bagutti at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 29, 2017).
- ↑ Mauro Gianetti (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti (accessed on October 2, 2016).