Minusio

Minusio

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District :	Locarno districtw
Circle :	Navegna district
BFS no. :	5118i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	6648
UN / LOCODE :	CH MIO
Coordinates :	706 127 / 114877 coordinates: 46 ° 10 '37 " N , 8 ° 48' 47" O ; CH1903: 706,127 / 11487746,177 8,813 246
Height :	246 m above sea level M.
Height range :	193–1671 m above sea level M.
Area :	5.86 km²
Residents:	7302 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1246 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.minusio.ch
Minusio
Location of the municipality
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Minusio ( alpinlombardisch minues [minyːs] , dt. Earlier Maniss ) is a municipality in the county Navegna , district of Locarno , in the Swiss canton of Ticino .

geography

Aerial photograph by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)

Minusio is a neighbor of Locarno and also borders on Muralto , Orselina , Avegno TI , Brione , Tenero-Contra . It lies between Lake Maggiore and Monte Cardada and consists of the districts of Borenco, Brighirolo, Cadogno, Ceresol, Ciossi, Fontile, Frizzi, Mappo, Mezzo, Mondacce and Rivapiana.

history

For a long time, Minusio was more important than today's city of Locarno. It is mentioned for the first time in 1061 as Menuxio .

In Roman times there was a Roman vicus at the site of today's location , with a port, residential areas, business districts, necropolises and military camps; In 1945 various Roman graves were found. A first church is dated to the 5th or 6th century; today's collegiate church was built in 1190/1200 and served as the parish church for Locarno until 1816.

In the early 19th century, Minusio lost its importance to the nearby city after a new port was built there in 1825/1826. With the railroad, which reached Muralto in 1874, its importance rose again: tourism began to flourish and the Grand Hôtel Locarno is located on Muralt soil. In 1881 it separated from Orselina and has since formed its own community. Today Muralto is once again a place of regional importance with its multi-purpose congress center.

population

Population development
year	1597	1683	1795	1850	1900	1950	1960	1990	2000	2010	2017
Residents	410	400	593	894	1162	2771	3663	5968	6428	6942	7226

Attractions

Sacred buildings
- Parish Church of Santi Rocco and Quirico
- The church of San Quirico is located in the district of Rivapiana. The church, first mentioned in 1313, was rebuilt in the 18th century in the baroque style. Inside the church there are remains of Romanesque paintings from the 13th century on the south wall. The Romanesque bell tower from the 13th-15th centuries Century earlier served as a watchtower., Bell tower
- Oratorio Crocifisso
- Oratory Madonna delle Grazie
- Oratory of San Giuseppe in the Mondacce district

Secular buildings

Parish hall
Formerly the Esplanade spa hotel
Villa Margherita
Villa San Quirico
Villa Roccabella
Rectory of San Quirico
Cà di Ferro, a castle-like building that the Uri Peter A Pro had built from 1540 to 1580 as a recruiting barracks for Swiss mercenaries ( rice hoppers ). The Vergine dei Sette Dolori chapel dates from 1630.

Museums and cultural centers

Sanctuarium Artis Elisarion , today the cultural center of the municipality of Minusio.
Museo Fiorenzo Abbondio , dedicated to the sculptor of the same name
Museo Mecrì in the Mondacce district. The museum, founded in 2014, is dedicated to the Ticino painter and archaeologist Aldo Crivelli (1907–1981), but there are also exhibitions by contemporary sculptors.

Places associated with personalities
- In 1919 Hermann Hesse lived in a small farmhouse at the entrance to the town for a few weeks before moving to Sorengo and finally finding a second home in Montagnola .

San Quirico Church , 13th century

Cà di Ferro weir system , 16th century

Sports

Associazione Sportiva Minusio
Unione Tiratori della Fraccia

Personalities

literature

Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 430-434; the same: I monumenti d'arte e di storia del Canton Ticino. Volume III: L'alto Verbano II. I circoli del Gambarogno e della Navegna (= The art monuments of Switzerland. Volume 73). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History SKG. Bern 1983, ISBN 3-7643-1500-8 , pp. 205-266.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 151, 165-168.
Daniela Pauli Falconi: Minusio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 16, 2010 , accessed December 31, 2019 .
Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, (Rivapiana) pp. 172, 214-215.
Clotilde Schlayer: Minusio: Chronicle from the last years of Stefan Georges' life. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2010.
Celestino Trezzini : Minusio. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5: Maillard - Monod. Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 117 f ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Minusio on the ETHorama platform
Website of the municipality of Minusio
Data from the municipality of Minusio
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Minusio (Italian)
Minusio: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Minusio on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

↑ 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 .
↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 598.
^ Aldo Crivelli: Tombe del principio dell'Impero romano a Minusio. In: Rivista Storica Ticinese 9, 1946, pp. 1224-1227.
^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Minusio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 24, 2009 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 165-168.
↑ Urs Kälin: Pro, Peter a. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 14, 2011 .
↑ Ca 'di ferro and the Oratory Vergine dei Sette Dolori
↑ Elisarion (Italian) on minusio.ch/elisarion
↑ http://www.elisarion.ch/de/das_sanctuarium.html
^ Museo Fiorenzo Abbondio
↑ [1]
^ Christian Walther: Robert Gilbert - A contemporary history biography. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2016, p. 411
^ Associazione Sportiva Minusio
↑ Unione della Tiratori Fraccia

[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] Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 598.

[3] Aldo Crivelli: Tombe del principio dell'Impero romano a Minusio. In: Rivista Storica Ticinese 9, 1946, pp. 1224-1227.

[4] Daniela Pauli Falconi: Minusio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 24, 2009 .

[Martinoli-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 165-168.

[6] Urs Kälin: Pro, Peter a. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 14, 2011 .

[7] Ca 'di ferro and the Oratory Vergine dei Sette Dolori

[8] Elisarion (Italian) on minusio.ch/elisarion

[9] ttp://www.elisarion.ch/de/das_sanctuarium.html

[10] Museo Fiorenzo Abbondio

[11] [1]

[12] Christian Walther: Robert Gilbert - A contemporary history biography. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2016, p. 411

[13] Associazione Sportiva Minusio

[14] Unione della Tiratori Fraccia