Monte Carasso

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Monte Carasso
Monte Carasso coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Bellinzona districtw
Circle : Bellinzona district
Municipality : Bellinzonai2
Postal code : 6513
former BFS no. : 5013
Coordinates : 720 549  /  115962 coordinates: 46 ° 11 '4 "  N , 9 ° 0' 0"  O ; CH1903:  720549  /  115962
Height : 237  m above sea level M.
Area : 9.70  km²
Residents: 2872 (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 296 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.bellinzona.ch
Augustinian convent, Church of Santi Bernardino e Girolamo

Augustinian convent, Church of Santi Bernardino e Girolamo
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Monte Carasso (Switzerland)
Monte Carasso
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Parish before the merger on April 1, 2017
Church of Santissima Trinità, left tower and wall of the Fortini della Fame
Fortifications, Fortini della Fame

Monte Carasso ( Lombard Muncheràss, Muncaràss [muŋkerˈasː muŋkarˈasː] ) is a district of the municipality of Bellinzona in the Swiss canton of Ticino . By April 1, 2017, it formed an independent political municipality that belonged to the then Ticino district .

geography

Aerial photo (1946)

Monte Carasso is located in the west of the canton capital Bellinzona at the exit of the deeply cut Sementina valley and on the right bank of the Ticino in the Magadino plain . The municipal area extends from 222 m above sea level. M. on Ticino in the south to the Cima d'Erbea at 2338 m above sea level. M. in the north.

The inhabitants of the village, which is divided into four parts, used to live mainly in the different fractions at the foot of the mountain, such as Orenno, Gaggio and Pedemonte . A cable car leads from the village (230 m above sea level) via the renovated hamlet of Curzútt (600 m above sea level) to Alp Mornera at 1347 m above sea level. M. Further up it goes on foot to the Alp Albagno, which at 1867 m above sea level. M. is and where there is also a hut (capanna) for the night.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1348 as Monte Carassio . The meaning of the place name is uncertain, but could mean "mountain at the steep and deep place, at the abyss".

In the Middle Ages and in the early modern period there was a permanent representative of the town on the Bellinzona Council. In 1506 the village received ferry rights across the Ticino River. After the destruction of the Torretta Bridge in 1515, the ferry remained the most important connection across the river until it was rebuilt in 1815. The population remained practically constant from 1591 (709 inhabitants) to 1950 (1064 inhabitants) and doubled to 2,133 inhabitants by the year 2000.

On April 2, 2017, Monte Carasso joined the municipality of Bellinzona together with the former municipalities of Camorino , Claro , Giubiasco , Gnosca , Gorduno , Gudo , Moleno , Pianezzo , Preonzo , Sant'Antonio and Sementina .

economy

The population practiced pasture and agriculture for centuries. From the middle of the 19th century onwards, numerous residents emigrated overseas. In 2000, three quarters of the workforce were commuters, as Monte Carasso is part of the Bellinzona conurbation.

population

Population development
year 1591 1784 1801 1850 1900 1950 1990 2000 2010 2016
Residents 709 600 496 619 956 1064 1610 2133 2648 2872

Attractions

  • The parish church of Santi Bernardino and Girolamo was built towards the end of the 15th century in place of a Romanesque prayer chapel from the 11th-12th centuries. Century built. At the same time an Augustinian convent was annexed to it, which was separated from the women's convent of San Maria Elisabetta in Como in 1555 .
  • Ossuary
  • The church of San Bernardo in the district of San Bernardo dates from the 12th to 13th centuries and contains frescoes by the Seregnese masters from the 15th century
  • The oratory Madonna di Loreto or Madonna della Valle was built in the 17th century and contains frescoes by the painter Gian Giacomo Gorla
  • The church of Santissima Trinità was completed in 1655; it contains a stucco work by Carlo Antonio Nartinelli
  • There are numerous buildings in the village by the architect Luigi Snozzi , who redesigned the village center from the 1980s: the former Augustinian convent, which today houses a primary school and cultural center (1987/1993), the gymnasium (1984), the urn hall of the cemetery (1983 / 1990), the mayor's house (1984), Banca Raiffeisen (1984)
  • Taragnoli house in Carà de Pedmúnt with portal
  • Suspension bridge (ponte tibetano) over the Sementina valley , built in 2015, 270 meters long
  • Fortini della Fame : In the years 1853/1854 a section of the fortification line designed by Guillaume-Henri Dufour was built south of Bellinzona . Ticino people, who had been expelled from the Lombardy-Venetian Kingdom in 1853 , were commissioned as a job creation measure to build a line of defense between Sementina and Camorino , which became known as the «Hunger fortresses» (Fortini della Fame) . The fortress structures leading along the Sementina torrent are included in the list of cultural assets of national importance in the canton of Ticino.

In 1993, Monte Carasso received the Wakker Prize for exemplary site protection. In 1998 the FONDAZIONE CURZÚTT - SAN BARNÁRD was founded to revive the old settlement on the Collina Alta above the town.

Sports

  • Unione Sportiva Monte Carasso

Personalities

  • Nicola Locarnini (born May 9, 1888 in Monte Carasso, † December 2, 1975 in Bellinzona ), Ticino Grand Councilor , journalist for the newspaper Il Lavoro, district director of the PTT
  • Isidoro Marcionetti (1916–1999), priest, teacher, art historian
  • Giorgio Carmine (born February 8, 1945 Bellinzona), painter, glass painter
  • Massimo Busacca (born 1969 in Monte Carasso), FIFA - referee
  • Andrea Pestoni (* 1977 in Monte Carasso), musician, composer
  • Christa Rigozzi (born May 2, 1983 in Monte Carasso), former Miss Switzerland 2006.

literature

  • Virgilio Gilardoni : Monte Carasso. In: Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Edizioni dello Stato. Bellinzona 1955, pp. 241-255.
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Monte Carasso. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 48, 51, 52, 53, 54.
  • Giuseppe Mondada: Notes e documenti moncarassesi. Una monografia inedita di Siro Borrani. In: Bollettino storico della Svizzera italiana , (BSSI), Tip. e Lit. Carlo Colombi, Bellinzona 1989, pp. 59-62.
  • Luigi Snozzi : Monte Carasso, the reinvention of the place. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1995.
  • Graziano Tarilli: Monte Carasso. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 5, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
  • Celestino Trezzini : Monte Carasso. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5: Monopole - Neuenkirch. Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 142 f ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Monte Carasso  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 608.
  2. ↑ Curzútt on curzutt.ch (accessed on March 1, 2017).
  3. ^ Graziano Tarilli: Monte Carasso. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 5, 2017 , accessed February 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j 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. 52-55.
  5. ↑ Parish Church of Santi Bernardino e Girolamo in portal.dnb.de (accessed on May 8, 2016.)
  6. ^ Church of San Bernardo
  7. ^ Church of Santissima Trinità
  8. ↑ Suspension bridge in Carasc
  9. ↑ Fortini della Fame (Hungerburgen)
  10. ^ Unione Sportiva Monte Carasso
  11. ^ Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, p. 21.
  12. ^ Giorgio Carmine. In: Sikart
  13. ↑ Massimo Busacca (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti (accessed on October 2, 2016).
  14. ↑ Andrea Pestoni on portal.dnb.de (accessed March 1, 2017).