Melide TI

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Melide
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Ticino (TI)
District :	Lugano district
Circle :	Paradiso district
BFS no. :	5198
Postal code :	6815
Coordinates :	717 027  /  90283 coordinates: 45 ° 57 '14 "  N , 8 ° 56' 53"  O ; CH1903:  717 027  /  90283
Height :	279  m above sea level M.
Height range :	270-530 m above sea level M.
Area :	1.66  km²
Residents:	1802 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1086 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.melide.ch
Melide with sea dam
Location of the municipality

Melide is a municipality on Lake Lugano in the county Paradiso , District Lugano of the Swiss canton of Ticino .

geography

Aerial photo from 100 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)

The place is located below Monte San Salvatore on the western side of the Melide dam , which bridges the strait between Melide and Bissone . The neighboring municipalities are Bissone, Vico Morcote , Lugano and the Italian exclave and municipality of Campione d'Italia .

history

The village is mentioned for the first time since 852; In 1482 there was a customs post there, and in the first half of the 15th century the village had to provide 5 soldiers to the Duke of Milan . In 1555 the Diet granted Melide, Bissone and Morcote a monopoly for the delivery of fish to Lugano . In 1818, after the construction of the cantonal road, under the supervision of Melide and Bissone, transport for wagons was carried out on the lake, which lasted until the opening of the 817 m long bridge at Melide (1847). The bridge tariff introduced at that time was bought back in 1853 for 12,770 Swiss francs . In 1863, the municipality was expanded to include part of the Sankt Martinsspitze as a result of a border adjustment with Italy .

In 1498 a hospital with a Church of the Holy Spirit is mentioned, which was subordinate to the Santo Spirito hospital in Sassia ( Rome ). Both were demolished in 1911 after having been deprived of their original purpose for a long time. In terms of the church, Melide first belonged to Lugano, then to Carona , in 1525 it was raised to its own parish, in 1636 it bought off its obligation to maintain the St. Lawrence Church in Lugano .

population

Population development
year	1591	1643	1709	1769	1801	1850	1900	1950	1970	1990	2000	2010	2012	2017
Residents	197	167	150	142	158	273	403	775	1315	1372	1513	1612	1669	1816

Infrastructure

• Corpo Pompieri Melide

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Melide

• Parish Church of Santi Quirico and Giulitta
• Swissminiatur , an open-air museum that presents a miniaturized Switzerland
• The embankment of the engineer Pasquale Lucchini
• The Villa Branca was known through media coverage - a prestigious winery built in 1912 on the bank. It had to give way to a new building
• Former brickworks
• Shell stone on the border of the former municipality of Carona TI .

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  Melide (2012)

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  Parish Church of Santi Quirico e Giulitta

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  Church of Santi Quirico and Giulitta, interior view

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  Painting of the crucifixion

Sports

• Football Club Melide

Personalities

→ Main article : List of personalities from Melide TI

literature

• Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, ISBN 978-88-8281-353-6 .
• Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 267, 413-414, 415, 533.
• Giuseppe Negro: Melide. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 27, 2014 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
• Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 354–355.
• Celestino Trezzini : Melide. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5, Maillard - Monod. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 73 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Further content in the sister projects of Wikipedia:
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• Website of the municipality of Melide
• Data from the municipality of Melide
• Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Melide
• Melide: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
• Road block and spherical bunker ( memento from August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in festung-oberland.ch (accessed on: May 2, 2016.)
• Melide on elexikon.ch

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. ^ Giuseppe Negro: Melide. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 23, 2008 .
3. ↑ Corpo Pompieri Melide
4. ↑ Corpo Pompieri Melide in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 2, 2016.)
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 354–355.
6. ↑ Swissminiatur ( Memento of the original dated August 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in luganotourism.ch (accessed on: May 2, 2016.) 
7. ↑ The great dying of villas ( NZZ , April 11, 2008)
8. ^ Football Club Melide