Giubiasco Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Giubiasco Parish, Ticino, Switzerland, ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, parish census, civil census, family history, area history, and military records.



Geography
As of 1997, Giubiasco has an area of 6.23 square kilometers (2.41 sq mi). The municipality is situated in the Bellinzona district, north of Bellinzona at the mouth of Valle Morobbia. It is part of the Agglomeration of Bellinzona. It includes the villages of Giubiasco and Piano and the settlements of Lôro, Motti, Palasio, Pedevilla and Sasso Piatto. The municipality of Pianezzo is pondering a merger sometime in the future with Giubiasco.

The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 60.8% - agricultural purposes
 * 21.2% - forested
 * 35.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.4% - rivers or lakes
 * 0.2% - unproductive land

History
The first mention of Giubiasco was in 1186 as apud Cibiascum and in 1195 as Zibiassco.

On 2 December 1867, Vallemorobbia merged into a single municipality in Piano and Giubiasco.

On 2 April 2017, these former neighboring municipalities merged into Bellinzona:
 * Camorino
 * Claro
 * Giubiasco
 * Gnosca
 * Gorduno
 * Gudo
 * Moleno
 * Monte Carasso
 * Pianezzo
 * Preonzo
 * Sant'Antonio
 * Sementina

The population history of Giubiasco is: 1591 - 1000 inhabitants 1698 - 944 inhabitants 1801 - 950 inhabitants 1850 - 1417 inhabitants 1900 - 1722 inhabitants 1930 - 2607 inhabitants 1950 - 3311 inhabitants 1970 - 5796 inhabitants 1990 - 6897 inhabitants 2000 - 7418 inhabitants

In the early Middle Ages, Giubiasco was probably the center of the possessions that the Abbey of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia held in the Locarnais and in the upper Ticino valley. The church of Santa Maria di Primasca, which is mentioned in a document of King Hugo of Italy from the year 929 as property of the monastery, was located there. Around 1200, the monastic property rights were sold to the nobleman Adam von Contone from Comask. After that, the neighborhoods (vicinanze) of the valleys partially replaced them with monetary payments. In 1186, Friedrich Barbarossa in Giubiasco decreed the special right of freedom for the Locarno region. Part of the county of Bellinzona, Giubiasco shared the fate of the capital. Assigned to Milan, like all the Sopraceneri, its geographical area was later annexed to Como. After the Battle of Arbedo in 1422, it passed under the rule of Milan, exercised first by the Visconti and then by the Sforza. After the Confederates' Italian campaigns at the beginning of the 16th century, Giubiasco became part of the Bailiwick of Bellinzona, a common lordship of Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden. The church of Santa Maria Assunta, referred to in 1387, probably dates from the 13th century. In 1622, it divided from Bellinzona and was made a vice parish church, and in 1804, a parish church. The building underwent several renovations and enlargements from the 15th to the 17th century. Giubiasco and the Valle Morobbia once formed a single Vicinanza (community), which probably split in the first half of the 16th century. In 1831, the Municipality of Vallemorobbia was seperated into Vallemorobbia in Piano, Pianezzo, and Sant'Antonio.

Census
(See here for information regarding Ticino census records.)

The 1808 Ticino census for Giubiasco is organized into fracions:
 * Giubiasco can be accessed here.
 * Vallemorobbia can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Comologno prior to 1875, along with any known soprannomi. For more information about soprannomi, click here.

Related sources
The town's website (in Italian) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Ticino

Societies
Società Genealogica della Svizzera Italiana (SGSI)