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Agra
Agra coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Lugano districtw
Circle : Paradiso district
Municipality : Collina d'Oroi2
Postal code : 6927
Coordinates : 714 214  /  91726 coordinates: 45 ° 58 '3 "  N , 8 ° 54' 43"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred fourteen thousand two hundred fourteen  /  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
Agra TI

Agra TI

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Parish before the merger on April 4, 2004
Parish Church of Saint Tommaso
Agra Resort Collina d'Oro

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

Aerial photograph by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)

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

Population development
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

  • Former sanatorium, German house

  • On the right the village of Agra, in the middle the newly built hotel, formerly a sanatorium

  • Dining room of the former sanatorium (1950)

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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Agra. In: Geographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, first volume, Aa - Emmengruppe, Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1902
  3. ^ Antonio Gili: Agra. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 21, 2016 .
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ einestages.spiegel.de: Unheilbar deutsch - einestages , accessed on April 15, 2010