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Moghègno
Coat of arms of Moghègno
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Vallemaggia districtw
Circle : Maggia district
Municipality : Maggia TIi2
Postal code : 6677
Coordinates : 697 820  /  121799 coordinates: 46 ° 14 '26 "  N , 8 ° 42' 25"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred ninety-seven thousand eight hundred twenty  /  121799
Height : 317  m above sea level M.
Area : 6.96  km²
Residents: 376 (2003)
Population density : 54 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.maggia.ch
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Parish before the merger on April 4, 2004
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Cemetery chapel with fresco
Maggia-Moghegno bridge

Moghègno is a village and district of the municipality of Maggia in the Maggia district in the Vallemaggia district of the Swiss canton of Ticino . Until April 4, 2004 Moghègno was an independent municipality.

In 2003, before the municipal merger, 376 inhabitants lived in the municipality on an area of ​​6.96 km².

geography

Moghègno is 317  m above sea level. M. in the Valle Maggia north-west of Locarno between Pizzo Peloso in the south-south-west and Madom da Sgióf in the north-east. The village is located on the right bank of the Maggia River , which formerly marked the municipal boundary to the main town Maggia, which is directly opposite. The border with Aurigeno, however, led along the Ri di Dentro .

history

The village was first mentioned in 1335 as Mogeno . You can still find many houses from the 17th and 18th centuries in the town center. Other evidence of rural culture are also of interest, such as the large fountains carved directly into the rock , the mills and the large wash house.

Local civil parish

Active local citizen families are Binsacca, Franscioni, Giacomazzi, Leoni, Pincini, Ramelli, Rianda and Tavernetti. Giacometti, Minetti, Rigascio and Righetti have been deleted.

population

Population development
year 1761 1801 1850 1900 1950 2000 2003
Residents 300 294 392 264 205 336 376

traffic

Moghègno is connected to the main road 407 by a side street that spans the Maggia . A branch road at the bridge leads to Aurigeno. Another, smaller road leads along the Maggia through the forest to Lodano .

Personalities

Attractions

The village image is classified in the inventory of protected sites in Switzerland (ISOS) as a site of national importance in Switzerland.

  • Parish Church of Beata Vergine Assunta
  • Cemetery column
  • Oratory of Santa Maria Annunziata
  • Old wash house dal Pradàgl
  • Elevated granary Torba di Rossitt
  • Elevated granary Torba Pincini
  • Old Mill
  • Romanesque necropolis: archaeological finds
  • Schalenstein in the Audeglia district (590 m above sea level)

literature

  • Simonetta Biaggio-Simona u. a .: La necropoli romana di Moghegno. 1995.
  • Giovanni Bianconi : Vallemaggia. Edizioni LEMA, Agno 1969.
  • Piero Bianconi : Moghegno. In: Arte in Vallemaggia. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1937, pp. 10, 24.
  • 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, p. 434.
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 243, 244, 246.
  • Daniela Pauli Falconia: Moghegno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
  • Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Tipografia Stazione SA, Locarno 1972, pp. 4, 56, 63, 121, 152, 171-172, 184, 186, 220-221, 286, 291, 318, 325, 340, 348, 352, 421-422.
  • Arturo Tomasini, Alfio Poncini: Moghegno. In: Repertorio toponomastico ticinese. DECS, Bellinzona 2004.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Moghegno. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5: Maillard - Monod. Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 127 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Binsacca and others ( Memento of the original from June 16, 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. on the family name book of Switzerland @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hls-dhs-dss.ch
  2. ↑ Daniela Pauli Falconia: Moghegno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 29, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Tavernetti on centennial.ucdavis.edu
  4. ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 243.
  6. ↑ Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Pp. 325, 348.
  7. ↑ Cornelia Isler KERENYI: Ticinesi prima di Cristo. Le tombe romane di Moghegno nel quadro della religione antica. (Italian) on e-periodica.ch (accessed on January 16, 2017).
  8. ^ Fiorenza Tamborini: Esposti i reperti di Moghegno. (Italian) at treccani.it/enciclopedia (accessed January 16, 2017).
  9. ^ Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, pp. 86–87.