Rancate
Rancate | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Ticino (TI) |
District : | Mendrisio district |
Circle : | Riva San Vitale district |
Municipality : | Mendrisio |
Postal code : | 6862 |
UN / LOCODE : | CH RCT |
Coordinates : | 718 814 / 81135 |
Height : | 352 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 2.24 km² |
Residents: | 1453 (December 31, 2007) |
Population density : | 649 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | mendrisio.ch/quartieri/rancate/ |
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Until April 4, 2009, Rancate was a municipality in the Riva San Vitale district, in the Mendrisio district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
geography
The village is around ten kilometers from Chiasso and is close to the Swiss-Italian border. The Laveggio runs through the village .
history
The place was first mentioned in 1190 as a rancade . Traces of settlement go back to antiquity. In the Middle Ages the village belonged to the County of Seprio and was perhaps a municipality as early as the end of the 13th century, but is first mentioned as such in 1335. In 1798 it joined the short-lived Republic of Riva San Vitale . In 1528 the village separated from the Pieve Riva San Vitale.
Community merger
On November 25, 2007, the merger of the municipalities of Arzo , Capolago , Genestrerio , Mendrisio, Rancate and Tremona was approved by their voters. On April 5, 2009, they joined forces to form the new Mendrisio community.
population
Population development | |||||||||||
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year | 1591 | 1643 | 1702 | 1769 | 1801 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | 2007 | 2018 |
Residents | 250 | 292 | 390 | 507 | 463 | 634 | 717 | 753 | 1353 | 1453 | 1600 |
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 Santo Stefano from the 18th century
- Column with statue of Saint Stephen
- Old rectory (since 1967 Cantonal Pinakothek Giovanni Züst) (Italian) on ti.ch/decs/dcsu u. a. Preserves the oil panel Santo Stefano davanti ai giudici del Sinedrio work (around 1525) by the painter Francesco De Tatti (* around 1490 in Varese; † before January 13, 1532 ibid), the painting Madonna dei Mercedari by the painter Giovanni Serodine and the fresco Sibilla ( 1855) by the painter Antonio Rinaldi from Tremona
- Cemetery chapel with fresco Anime purganti by the painter Antonio Rinaldi
- Church of San Giuseppe (Roman tombs nearby) built in the 16th century with frescoes on the facade; in the interior marble altar and various paintings
- Oratory of San Giovanni Battista in the Pizzuolo district, with frescoes by the painter Francesco Antonio Giorgioli
- Villa Züst (former Pinakothek)
- Old palace Della Croce then Borsotti in the district of Cantone
- Della Tana trading post.
Sports
- Football Club Rancate
Personalities
- Tommaso Calderari (* around 1540 in Rancate; † around 1600 in Turin ?), By Rancate, master builder. He worked as a military engineer in Piedmont .
- Carlo Fontana (* 1638 in Rancate; † 1714), architect and engineer
- Giuseppe Belloni (born August 31, 1898 in Rancate, † January 8, 1964 in Mendrisio), sculptor
- Grazioso Gerolamo Francesco Rusca (* 1757 in Rancate, † June 18, 1829 in Milan ), sculptor
- Carlo Basilico (born July 11, 1895 in Rancate, † January 30, 1966 in Mendrisio), painter
- Artist family Botta
- Alessandro Botta (born November 23, 1837 in Rancate; † June 10, 1902), sculptor
- Francesco Botta (born September 26, 1820 in Rancate; † July 9, 1903 there), sculptor, architect
- Grazioso Botta (born February 11, 1836 in Rancate, † October 21, 1898 in Saint Petersburg ), sculptor, plasterer
- Luigi Botta (born November 23, 1826 in Rancate; † November 1, 1894 ibid), sculptor, plasterer
- Valente Botta (born February 16, 1845 in Rancate; † February 4, 1901), sculptor
- Emanuele Caroni (born February 26, 1826 in Rancate; † ibid?), Sculptor
- Giovanni (Johann Jakob) Züst (born January 24, 1887 in Basel ; † December 4, 1976 in Rancate), freight forwarder, art collector, benefactor
- Angelo Sesti (born March 30, 1915 in Bergamo ), painter, mosaicist
literature
- Stefania Bianchi: Rancate. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2017 , accessed December 15, 2019 .
- Virgilio Gilardoni: Rancate. In: Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, p. 511.
- Giuseppe Martinola : Rancate. In: Inventario d'arte del Mendrisiotto. Volume I, Edizioni dello Stato, Bellinzona 1975, pp. 433-444.
- Simona Martinoli and others: Rancate. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 423-425.
- Celestino Trezzini : Rancate. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5, Pictet - Resti. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 530 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Mendrisio
- Data from the municipality of Mendrisio
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Mendrisio
- Quartier Rancate on the website of the municipality of Mendrisio (Italian)
- Federal inventory ISOS: Rancate (PDF; 1.2 MB)
- Rancate: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
- Rancate on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ^ Stefania Bianchi: Rancate. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 29, 2016 .
- ^ Stefania Bianchi: Rancate. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 29, 2016 .
- ^ Population rancate 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 f g h i 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. 423-425.
- ^ Cantonal Pinakothek Giovanni Züst
- ^ Giovanni Agosti, Jacopo Stoppa: Il Rinascimento nelle terre ticinesi 2. Dal territorio al museo. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2018, pp. 26–33.
- ↑ Football Club Rancate on football.ch/ftc/Club-FTC.asp
- ^ Domenico Trezzini : Tommaso Calderari. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , page 473 ( digitized version ) (accessed on July 13, 2017).
- ^ Giuseppe Belloni. In: Sikart
- ^ Grazioso Gerolamo Francesco Rusca. In: Sikart
- ^ Carlo Basilico. In: Sikart
- ↑ Alessandro Botta. In: Sikart
- ↑ Francesco Botta. In: Sikart
- ^ Grazioso Botta. In: Sikart
- ↑ Luigi Botta. In: Sikart
- ↑ Valente Botta. In: Sikart
- ↑ Emanuele Caroni. In: Sikart
- ^ Mariangela Agliati Ruggia: Züst, Giovanni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 24, 2013 , accessed December 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Angelo Sesti. In: Sikart