Loco TI

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Loco
Loco coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Locarno districtw
Circle : Onsernone County
Municipality : Onsernonei2
Postal code : 6661
Coordinates : 695 163  /  117499 coordinates: 46 ° 12 '8 "  N , 8 ° 40' 18"  O ; CH1903:  695163  /  117499
Height : 680  m above sea level M.
Area : 9.09  km²
Residents: 254 (December 31, 2000)
Population density : 28 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.onsernone.swiss
Loco TI

Loco TI

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Parish before the merger on April 13, 2001

Loco , with the districts of Niva and Rossa, is a village and former political municipality in the Onsernone district in the Onserone Valley in the Locarno district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

geography

Aerial photo (1963)

The village is located in the Onsernone Valley on a terrace on the road that leads to Vergeletto on the one hand and Spruga on the other . It also included the hamlets of Niva and Rossa and was the administrative seat of the municipality of Isorno TI .

history

Loco, also called Luogo, was first mentioned in 1224 according to a document in the community archive. In the Ancien Régime , Loco, together with the other villages in the valley, with the exception of Auressio, formed the capital of the valley municipality Onsernone. In the 19th century Loco was a center of straw braiding, whereby the straw braids used for this were also made in the other villages of the Onsernone valley. In addition to the typical houses with loggias, some of whose decorations have been preserved, a number of stately mansions characterize the village.

From 2001 to 2015, Loco, together with Berzona and Auressio, formed the municipality of Isorno . Here Loco was the administrative center. In 2016, Isorno was added to the municipality of Onsernone.

population

Population development
year 1795 1808 1850 1860 1880 1900 1930 1950 2000 2014
Residents 684 689 600 745 634 402 289 258 254 246

economy

In Loco are the primary school, the Museo Onsernonese founded in 1966 and the renovated old people's home of the Onsernone Valley; A permanent exhibition on grain milling can be seen in a restored mill. The 19th century Casa Schira is owned by the municipality and houses a small public library and an inn. After the decline of agriculture, the majority of the working population commuted to Locarno from the beginning of the 21st century.

Attractions

The village image is classified in the inventory of protected sites in Switzerland (ISOS) as a site of national importance in Switzerland.

Sacred buildings

  • Parish church of San Remigio with Cappella del Crocefisso built in the 8th century, the current building dates from the 16th century. Century and is the result of several additions. It was frescoed by the local painter GS Meletta in 1902 and contains paintings from the 17th century. Century
  • Oratory Sankt Johann Nepomuk in the district of Niva
  • Oratorio della Madonna di Re in the district Sassello: the coming of the XVII century church of Madonna di Re consecrated and is located on the mule track of Loco to Passo della Garina leads

Civil buildings

  • Schira residential building (youth hostel, library)
  • Fountain with statue of Wilhelm Tell , by the sculptor Ermenegildo Degiorgi Peverada
  • Walser house
  • Broggini Palace in the Rossa district, around 1708
  • Casa ai Mulini (old mill) is the former customs post (bridge toll); on the west side of the house there is a restored fresco by GS Meletta from 1900; the current building dates from 1626 and was renovated in 2002.
  • Loco Mill dates from the 18th century. It has been carefully restored and put back into operation.
  • Nivabrücke, designed by Christian Menn, was completed in 2016 to replace the old 16th century bridge that was destroyed in 1978.

  • Loco, San Remigio

  • San Remigio Church

  • Oratory of San Giovanni Nepomuceno

  • Old Mill

  • Niva

  • Nivabrücke.

Culture

  • Museo Onsernonese

Personalities

  • The Schira family from the Onsernone Valley, in Loco and later in Berzona
  • Broggini family
    • Guglielmo Antonio Broggini (* around 1740 in Loco; † after 1781 ibid), received a ten-year concession from Lucerne to exploit the mines in the Onsernone valley and in Locarno.
    • Giacomo Antonio Broggini (* around 1770 in Loco; † after 1840 there), priest, pastor of Lavertezzo , Ticino Grand Councilor
    • Paolo Broggini (* around 1775 in Loco; † after 1813 there), pastor of Loco, Ticino councilor
  • Carlo Agostino Meletta (born August 28, 1800 in Loco; † August 6, 1875 in Bormio ), portraitist, wall painter
  • Ermenegildo Peverada (born June 8, 1866 in Loco; † January 28, 1900 there), sculptor, sculptor
  • Anita Giovanna Peverada (born May 21, 1871 in Loco; † March 12, 1945 in Locarno), painter, draftsman
  • Bruno (Aquilino) Nizzola (* 1890 in Loco; † 1963 in Locarno ), painter

literature

  • Siro Borrani : Il Ticino Sacro. Memorie Religose della Svizzera Italiana raccolte dal sacerdote Siro Borrani prevosto di Losone. Tipografia e Libreria Cattolica di Giovanni Grassi, Lugano 1896.
  • Guglielmo Buetti: Note Storiche Religiose delle Chiese e Parrocchie della Pieve di Locarno, (1902), e della Verzasca, Gambarogno, Valle Maggia e Ascona (1906). 2nd Edition. Pedrazzini, Locarno 1969.
  • Luciano Chiesa and others: Onsernone: the valley and its museum. Museo Onsernonese, Loco 2012.
  • Vasco Gamboni: Loco. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
  • Simona Martinoli un. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 222-223.
  • Rinaldo Giambonini, Agostino Robertini, Silvano Toppi: Loco. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1971, pp. 153-164.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Loco. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 4, Liebegg - Milan. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1927, p. 701 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Loco (Onsernone)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vasco Gamboni: Loco. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2017 , accessed July 2, 2019 .
  2. ^ Vasco Gamboni: Loco. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 18th January 2017 .
  3. ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ 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. Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 222-223.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Elfi Rüsch: Distretto di Locarno IV. Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-084-3 , pp. 301–321.
  6. ↑ Il mulino di Loco at aimulini.com/mulino (accessed March 17, 2017)
  7. ↑ Museo Onsernonese on d-nb.info/gnd
  8. ↑ Museo Onsernonese at api3.geo.admin.ch/rest/services/kgs/MapServer/ (accessed December 10, 2017).
  9. ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Schira. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 20, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Broggini on biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on July 4, 2017).
  11. ↑ Guglielmo Antonio Broggini at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on July 4, 2017).
  12. ↑ Giacomo Antonio Broggini at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on July 4, 2017).
  13. ↑ Paolo Broggini at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on July 4, 2017).
  14. ^ Carlo Agostino Meletta. In: Sikart , accessed January 23, 2016.
  15. ↑ Ermenegildo Peverada. In: Sikart , accessed January 15, 2016.
  16. ↑ Anita Giovanna Peverada. In: Sikart , accessed January 15, 2016.
  17. ↑ Bruno (Aquilino) Nizzola on ticinarte.ch