Meride
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District : | Mendrisio district |
Circle : | Riva San Vitale district |
Municipality : | Mendrisio |
Postal code : | 6866 |
former BFS no. : | 5255 |
Coordinates : | 717 621 / 83220 |
Height : | 586 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 7.47 km² |
Residents: | 344 (December 31, 2016) |
Population density : | 46 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | mendrisio.ch/quartieri/meride/ |
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Meride (the name is emphasized on the first syllable: Méride) was until April 13, 2013 a municipality in the Riva San Vitale district , in the Mendrisio district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .
geography
The village is 582 m above sea level. M. on the slope of Monte San Giorgio and 7 km from Mendrisio station on the Bellinzona - Lugano - Chiasso line of the Swiss Federal Railways , 7.5 km northwest of Chiasso.
history
Meride is first mentioned in writing in 852 as Melene . Later it appears in documents as Melade (963), Meredo (1443) and Merito (1591). In the Middle Ages it belonged to the parish of Riva San Vitale and thus to the diocese of Como . Meride has been federal since 1517. Well-known plasterers and painters come from this village. They found their jobs in Germany , Russia and France , returned home in the winter months and beautified their homes. A few of her works can still be seen today.
Community merger
On April 13, 2013 Meride was incorporated into the political municipality of Mendrisio .
population
Population development | |||||||||||
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year | 1591 | 1643 | 1702 | 1769 | 1801 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | 2016 | 2018 |
Residents | 450 | 386 | 394 | 325 | 340 | 415 | 441 | 365 | 293 | 344 | 340 |
Attractions
The village image is classified in the inventory of protected sites in Switzerland (ISOS) as a site of national importance in Switzerland.
- The simple parish church of San Rocco stands in the center of the village on Piazza Mastri di Meride and was built in the 17th century; in the interior: painting Santa Lucia (1595) by Giovan Pietro Gnocchi and Sacra Coversazione (around 1850) by Antonio Rinaldi ; Pentecost stained glass (1974) by Roberto Pasotti ; Organ (1841) by Paolo Brambilla.
- Museo d'Arte Sacra della Parrocchia di Meride
- A little apart and above the village is the church of San Silvestro with frescoes from 1690 by Francesco Antonio Giorgioli (1655-1725). The original Romanesque church was completely redesigned in the 16th century.
- Medieval portal
- Fossil Museum of Monte San Giorgio Museo dei fossili del Monte San Giorgio
The fossil museum of Monte San Giorgio in Meride mainly shows finds from nearby Monte San Giorgio that have been collected over the last 150 years. The fossils are 240 million years old and date from the time when what was then Mendrisiotto only partially rose from the sea. Mainly marine fossils are shown, but also impressions of the rich fauna from the Middle Triassic . Among others, the palaeontologist Bernhard Peyer made important discoveries.
various
- Parish of Santi Silvestro e Giorgio, Meride
- Società di Mutuo Soccorso fra gli Operai della Lega dei Tre Castelli di Meride, Arzo e Tremona
- Schalenstein (character stone) on the border with Brusino Arsizio and Italy (546 m above sea level)
Sports
- Associazione Sportiva della Montagna Arzo-Besazio-Meride-Tremona
Personalities
literature
- Stefania Bianchi: Meride. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 29, 2016 .
- Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, ISBN 978-88-8281-353-6 .
- Emil Kuhn-Schnyder: The fossils of Monte San Giorgio: Guide to the paleontology. Museum Meride (Canton Ticino). Paleontolog. Institute and Museum of the University of Zurich 1979.
- Giuseppe Martinola : Lettere dai paesi transalpini degli artisti di Meride e dei villaggi vicini (XVII – XIX). In: appendice: L'emigrazione delle maestranze d'arte del Mendrisiotto oltre le alpi XVI-XVIII. Bellinzona 1963; Idem: Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità del distretto di Mendrisio. Bellinzona 1975.
- Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007
- Celestino Trezzini : Meride. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 4: Maillard - Monod. Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, pp. 83, 84 ( digitized version ).
- Mix white : Meride village of stones and dreams. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 21./22. April 1990.
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Mendrisio
- Data from the municipality of Mendrisio
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Mendrisio
- Quartier Meride on the website of the municipality of Mendrisio (Italian)
- Federal inventory ISOS: Meride (PDF; 1.9 MB)
- Meride: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
- Meride on ticinotopten.ch
- Meride on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefania Bianchi: Meride. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Population of Meride at the end of 2018
- ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d e 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. 427-430.
- ^ Museo d'Arte Sacra della Parrocchia di Meride
- ^ Parish Church of San Silvestro
- ↑ Museo dei fossili del Monte San Giorgio
- ↑ Fossil Museum Monte San Giorgio on ticino.ch
- ↑ Parish Santi Silvestro e Giorgio, Meride in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 11, 2016.)
- ^ Società di Mutuo Soccorso fra gli Operai della Lega dei Tre Castelli in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 11, 2016.)
- ^ Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, p. 90.
- ↑ Associazione Sportiva della Montagna Arzo-Besazio-Meride-Tremona on mendrisio.ch/author/associazione-sportiva-della-montagna
- ^ Emil Kuhn-Schnyder: The fossils of Monte San Giorgio: Guide to the paleontolog. Museum Meride (Canton Ticino). in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 11, 2016.)
- ↑ Meride - village of stone and dream. (Book, 1990) [WorldCat.org]. In: worldcat.org. Retrieved November 1, 2013 .