Agra TI
TI is the abbreviation for the canton of Ticino in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Agra (disambiguation) . |
Agra | ||
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State : | Switzerland | |
Canton : | Ticino (TI) | |
District : | Lugano district | |
Circle : | Paradiso district | |
Municipality : | Collina d'Oro | |
Postal code : | 6927 | |
Coordinates : | 714 214 / 91726 | |
Height : | 552 m above sea level M. | |
Area : | 1.29 km² | |
Residents: | 401 (December 31, 2002) | |
Population density : | 311 inhabitants per km² | |
Website: | www.collinadoro.com | |
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Agra (in local dialect : [ aːgra ]) is a village in the municipality of Collina d'Oro in the Paradiso district , in the Lugano district in the south of the Swiss canton of Ticino .
geography
The village is 570 m above sea level. M. at the foot of Monte Crocione on the Collina d'Oro . The place name probably corresponds to the word agra / agru ( mountain maple ), which is widespread in the Ticino dialect .
history
The hamlet of Bigogno (Bigonio) belonging to Agra is mentioned in 1270 in an inventory listing the property of the Sant'Abbondio monastery in Como in the Valle di Lugano. The inventory of the cathedral chapter of Como (1298) names in Agra Allod , episcopal fiefs and possessions of the Disentis monastery .
Until it was united with Gentilino and Montagnola in April 2004, Agra was a separate political municipality that included the hamlet of Bigogno. Agra has been documented since the late 13th century.
population
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year | 1591 | 1670 | 1850 | 1900 | 1902 | 1930 | 1950 | 2000 | 2002 |
Residents | 100 | 143 | 164 | 164 | 176 | 515 | 389 | 401 | 401 |
Attractions
- Parish Church of San Tommaso
- Former sanatorium, architect: Edwin Wipf , built 1912–1915 for tuberculosis patients, which became known as Deutsches Haus through the stay of many German-speaking celebrities ; it was closed in 1969 and rebuilt in its old form in 2009 after the ruins were demolished. In the meantime, a renovation has taken place and the house is being run as a hotel under the new name “Resort Collina d'Oro”
- Oratorio della Beata Vergine in the district of Bigogno.
photos
Former sanatorium (1954) with Monte San Salvatore in the background
Personalities
literature
- Enrico Fuselli (Ed.): Agra 1914-1918. The respiro del sanatorio. Fondazione culturale della Collina d'Oro-Lugano, Giampiero Casagrande, Montagnola 2009.
- Virgilio Gilardoni : Agra. In: Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 175, 202, 474.
- Antonio Gili: Agra. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
- Simona Martinoli u. a .: Agra. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 336-339.
- A.Mario Redaelli: Agra. In: Storia e storie della Collina d'Oro. Editori Gaggini-Bizzozero SA, Lugano 1977.
- Celestino Trezzini : Agra In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 1, Affo - Alther , Attinger, Neuenburg 1921, p. 175 ( digitized version ), (accessed on July 3, 2017).
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Collina d'Oro
- Data from the municipality of Collina d'Oro
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Collina d'Oro
- Agra: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
- Agra on elexikon.ch
- Agra on ticinarte.ch.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Barbara Meroni: Agra TI (Lugano) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 78.
- ↑ Agra. In: Geographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, first volume, Aa - Emmengruppe, Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1902
- ^ Antonio Gili: Agra. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 21, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 339-340.
- ↑ einestages.spiegel.de: Unheilbar deutsch - einestages , accessed on April 15, 2010