Pianezzo

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Bellinzona district

Circle :

Bellinzona district

Municipality :

Bellinzona

Postal code :

6582

former BFS no. :

5014

Coordinates :

722 857 / 114 352 coordinates: 46 ° 10 '10 " N , 9 ° 1' 46" O ; CH1903: 722857 / one hundred and fourteen thousand three hundred fifty-two

Height :

491 m above sea level M.

Area :

8.03 km²

Residents:

605 (December 31, 2016)

Population density :

75 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.bellinzona.ch

map

Parish before the merger on April 1, 2017

Pianezzo in the Valle Morobbia (1953)

Pianezzo ( Lombard Pianezz [pjaˈnets] ) is a district of the municipality of Bellinzona in the Swiss canton of Ticino . Until April 1, 2017, it formed an independent political municipality that belonged to the then Giubiasco district .

geography

The village lies at the beginning of the Morobbi valley . The Paudo faction also belongs to him . In the south Pianezzo borders on the municipality of Cadenazzo / Monteceneri .

history

The place is first documented in 1382 as de Planezio . The name goes back to vulgar Latin plānitium and means "flat surface", thus designating the topographical conditions.

The area was already inhabited in the Iron Age (400–196 BC). In 1896–1905, 1907 and 1943 all Piazze, Carabella and alla Motta over forty graves from the older and younger Iron Age were found in the localities , with numerous additions, mostly of Ligurian or Gallic origin.

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

population

Population development
year	1671	1769	1850	1900	1950	2000	2010	2016
Residents	202	197	328	342	278	489	573	605

Attractions

Parish Church of Santi Giacomo e Filippo (16th century)
Tower house
Stone bridge over the Morobbia
Roman fortresses in the districts of Caslasc and Tremoza
Iron Age Necropolis
Two shell stones in the Monti di Paudo district (943 m above sea level)

literature

Giuseppe Chiesi: "Antique vene ferri". Imprese minerarie e siderurgiche nel sec. XV in Valle Morobbia. In: Minaria Helvetica. 19b, 1999, pp. 5-11.
Virgilio Gilardoni : Pianezzo. In: Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Edizioni dello Stato. Bellinzona 1955, pp. 256-258; Idem, Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 476-477.
Giancarlo Maretti (Ed.): Alpi e storie di alpi della Valle Morobbia. Editore Salvioni, Bellinzona 2010.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Pianezzo. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, p. 47.
Graziano Tarilli: Pianezzo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 5, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
Celestino Trezzini : Pianezzo. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5: Neuenschwander - Picot. Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 432 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^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. 703.
^ Aldo Bassetti: Le tombe di S. Antonio in Valle Morobbia, di Giubiasco, e la necropoli di Pianezzo. In: Rivista Storica Ticinese , Anno 6, N. 6, December 1943. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1946, p. 847.
^ Graziano Tarilli: Pianezzo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 5, 2017 , accessed February 4, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e 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 , p. 47.
↑ Parish church Santi Giacomo e Filippo in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 9, 2016.)
^ Antonio Magni: La necropoli ligure-gallica di Pianezzo nel Canton Ticino. Milano, Cogliati 1907.
^ Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, p. 101.

[lsg-1] 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. 703.

[2] Aldo Bassetti: Le tombe di S. Antonio in Valle Morobbia, di Giubiasco, e la necropoli di Pianezzo. In: Rivista Storica Ticinese , Anno 6, N. 6, December 1943. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1946, p. 847.

[3] Graziano Tarilli: Pianezzo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 5, 2017 , accessed February 4, 2020 .

[Martinoli-4] 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 , p. 47.

[5] Parish church Santi Giacomo e Filippo in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 9, 2016.)

[6] Antonio Magni: La necropoli ligure-gallica di Pianezzo nel Canton Ticino. Milano, Cogliati 1907.

[7] Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, p. 101.