Angrogna

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Angrogna
coat of arms
Angrogna (Italy)
Angrogna
Country Italy
region Piedmont
Metropolitan city Turin  (TO)
Coordinates 44 ° 51 '  N , 7 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 51 '0 "  N , 7 ° 13' 0"  E
height 782  m slm
surface 38 km²
Residents 845 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 22 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 10060
prefix 0121
ISTAT number 001011
Popular name Angrognini
Patron saint St. Laurence
Overview map in the Angrogna Valley
The hamlet of Martel in the Angrogna Valley
Hamlet on the hiking trail in the Angrogna Valley
Panorama of the main town of San Lorenzo
Tempio valdese del capoluogo San Lorenzo
View to Serre in the Angrogna Valley

Angrogna ( Piedmontese Angreugna , Occitan Angruenha ) is a municipality with 845 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Italian metropolitan city of Turin (TO) ( Piedmont region ) in the Cottian Alps . The place is located in a short side valley of the Val Pellice at an altitude of 782 m above sea level.

The municipality consists of the districts Baussan, Martel, Pradeltorno and Serre. The main town (often referred to as "capoluogo") bears the name of St. Lawrence . Angrogna's nine neighboring communities are Perrero , Prali , Pramollo , San Germano Chisone , Prarostino , Villar Pellice , Torre Pellice , Luserna San Giovanni and Bricherasio . The municipality covers an area of ​​38 km². The valley's name comes from the stream of the same name that runs through it and flows into the Pellice in Torre Pellice. The Angrogna rises from the Lago della Sella Vecchia at an altitude of 2,452 m at the foot of the 2,832 m high Monte Rous.

history

In the past, Angrogna played an important role as a retreat for the Waldensians during the persecution. This is how the Waldensians managed to repel the attacks of Emanuel Philbert's Savoy troops led by Giorgio Costa della Trinità during the religious war of 1561 in a kind of guerrilla war here - more precisely: in the Pra del Torno district . This subsequently made the Peace of Cavour possible .

On September 12, 1532 near Serre who found Synod of Chanforan held, during which the Waldensian from Burgundy, Lorraine, Piedmont, Calabria and Bohemia - not least because of the influence William Farel - for connection to the Reformation by French-Swiss characteristics decided.

In 1555 the Tempio del capoluogo , the first Waldensian church, was built in the main town of San Lorenzo . However, it was destroyed in 1561 and rebuilt after the Peace Treaty of Cavour. In 1655, during the massacres of the Piedmontese Easter, the church was razed again and then rebuilt. In 1686 it was demolished again, and in 1708 it could be rebuilt on the ruins, renewed and expanded in 1847 and 1880.

In the village of Serre, after the glorious return (Italian: glorioso rimpatrio ) of some Waldensians from Germany and Switzerland, a new Waldensian church was built from 1690, the Tempio valdese del Serre di Angrogna . A bell tower was added in 1811.

The importance of the place for Waldensian history is also reflected in the fact that the Waldensians were called "angrognini" (English: "those from Angrogna") by their enemies for a long time. Even today, numerous monuments and places testify to the history of the place, such as the Waldensian church Ciabas, the monument of Chanforan, the Scuola Odin-Bertot, the grotto Gueiza d'la Tana (possibly a former place of worship) or the so-called Coulège de barbe above Pra del Torno.

geography

Pramollo and San Germano Chisone can be reached on foot via the Colle della Vaccera , 1461 m high , where the Rifugio Jumarre is located. The pass is located between Monte Servin (1,756 m), on the slope of which there is an impressive rock formation, and Monte Castelletto (1,512 m). Not far from the Colle della Vaccera is the "Roccia del profeta" (Eng. Rock of the Prophet), which bears this name because of its shape, which is astonishingly similar to a human face with a beard. From Torre Pellice an asphalt, drivable road leads almost to the pass, whereas the first four kilometers in the direction of Val Chisone have to be walked on a gravel path. To get to Colle della Vaccera you have to turn right, but if you go straight ahead you will get to San Lorenzo, from where another road that turns right leads to Serre. Instead, the main road goes in the direction of Pra del Torno, which can be reached by turning right at the next intersection. At this intersection, a lower road leads back to Torre Pellice along the Angrogna.

A little below Pra del Torno you can hike on a signposted path to the Rifugio Barfè, from where you can also climb the approximately 2,100 m high Monte Vandalino .

Population development

literature

  • Osvaldo Coisson: Angrogna. The story of a Waldensian community. Translated by Robert Zwilling, Fusta, Angrogna 2013, ISBN 978-88-95163-98-7 .
  • Pascal Oswald: A historical tour through the Angrogna Valley , in: Waldensermagazin 262 (2019), p. 9. ( academia.edu )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ See Coisson, p. 17.
  3. ↑ See Coisson, p. 22.
  4. ↑ Cf. Giorgio Tourn: History of the Waldensians. kitab Erlanger Verlag, Klagenfurt / Vienna 2013, 4th edition, p. 104 f.
  5. ↑ See Coisson, p. 29.
  6. ↑ La Sainte Bible de 1535 traduite par Pierre-Robert Olivetan (Brief history of the origins of the Holy Scriptures from 1535, which was translated by Pierre-Robert Olivetan , into French)
  7. ↑ Tempio del capoluogo - Angrogna , September 25, 2015, website valdesina.it (in English and Italian)
  8. ↑ Tempio valdese del Serre di Angrogna , May 26, 2017, website valdesina.it (in English and Italian)
  9. ↑ See Coisson, p. 13.
  10. ↑ See Coisson, p. 46.