Sementina

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Sementina
Sementina coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Bellinzona districtw
Circle : Bellinzona district
Municipality : Bellinzonai2
Postal code : 6514
former BFS no. : 5019
Coordinates : 719 554  /  115847 coordinates: 46 ° 11 '1 "  N , 8 ° 59' 14"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred nineteen thousand five hundred fifty-four  /  115847
Height : 224  m above sea level M.
Area : 8.4  km²
Residents: 3217 (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 383 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.bellinzona.ch
Sementina: view from the Torre della murata

Sementina: view from the Torre della murata
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Sementina (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on April 1, 2017
Fortino della fame

Sementina ( Lombard also [semenˈtina] ) is a district of Bellinzona in the Swiss canton of Ticino . Until April 1, 2017, it formed its own political municipality in what was then Ticino County .

geography

Sementina is located in the west of the canton capital Bellinzona at the exit of the Sementina valley and on the right bank of the Ticino in the Magadino plain . The Piancalardo fraction also belongs to Sementina .

history

Aerial photo (1946)

Grave fields from the Iron Age and Roman finds indicate an early settlement. Sementina was first mentioned in 1230 as Somentina . In 1264, the cathedral chapter of Como Cathedral granted their property and rights in Sementina to the Muralto family, in 1277 to the da Gnosca and in 1335 to the Orelli of Locarno . In 1335 Sementina, Muyro (Moiro) and the fractions Sant'Antonio, Piancalardo (1363) appear as parishes of the County of Bellinzona. The chapter there exercised the right to tithe in 1465.

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

population

Population development
year 1591 1692 1795 1850 1900 1950 1960 2000 2010 2012 2014 2015 2016
Residents 300 160 170 310 345 534 618 2646 3056 3111 3106 3144 3217

The population remained practically constant from 1591 (300 inhabitants) to 1960 (618) and rose to 2,646 inhabitants by the year 2000.

economy

In Sementina, livestock and arable farming were practiced. The drainage of the Magadino plain at the end of the 19th century not only protected against diseases and floods, but also created additional agricultural land. In the first half of the 20th century cardboard and ceramics were produced. In 2000, over three quarters of the workforce were commuters.

Attractions

  • The church of San Michele, mentioned in 1291, served as a replacement for the church of Sant'Eusebio, last mentioned in 1285 and destroyed by a flood. In the 17th century it was renewed and probably expanded in 1761
  • Oratory of Sant'Antonio Abate in the Moia district
  • Oratory San Defendente in the district of San Defendente
  • In the years 1853-1854, a section of the fortification line designed by Guillaume-Henri Dufour , the Fortini della Fame , was created 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 wild brook Sementina along leading fortifications (Torre della murata) are in the list of cultural property of national significance in the canton of Ticino listed
  • Suspension bridge (Italian ponte tibetano ) over the Sementina valley near Carasc, built in 2015, 270 meters long.

Sports

  • Associazione Calcistica Sementina

Personalities

  • Carlo Jermini (* around 1710 in Sementina; † after 1743 in Madrid  ?), Plasterer, he went to Madrid in 1743 to the architect Vincenzo Rabaglio (1711–1800) from Gandria , who designed the Palacio Real (Riofrio) in Segovia .
  • Pietro Jermini (* around 1710 in Sementina; † after 1743 in Madrid?), Brother of Carlo, plasterer, he worked from 1743 in Madrid at the court of the Spanish kings, together with his brother Carlo.
  • Ines Marcionetti (born April 27, 1905 in Sementina; † July 9, 2004 in Locarno ), writer

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  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. 825. The meaning of the name is unknown.
  2. ^ Graziano Tarilli: Sementina. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 5, 2017 , accessed February 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d 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. 50-54.
  4. ↑ Fortifications
  5. ↑ Suspension bridge in Carasc
  6. ↑ Associazione Calcistica Sementina ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mobile.football.ch
  7. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Carlo Jermini. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2015, accessed March 24, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Pietro Jermini. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2015, accessed March 24, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Ines Marcionetti (Italian) in osservatoriogenere.ch, accessed January 4, 2016.