Anzonico

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Leventina district

Circle :

Faido County

Municipality :

Faido

Postal code :

6748

former BFS no. :

5062

Coordinates :

709 433 / 143246 coordinates: 46 ° 25 '54 " N , 8 ° 51' 45" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and nine thousand four hundred and thirty-three / 143246

Height :

1002 m above sea level M.

Area :

10.6 km²

Residents:

108 (December 31, 2011)

Population density :

10 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.faido.ch

Anzonico

map

Parish until the merger on April 1, 2012

Until March 31, 2012, Anzonico was a municipality in the Giornico district , in the Leventina district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .

geography

Aerial photo from 1200 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1931)

The village is located on the left slope of the Leventina Valley at 972 m above sea level. M. on the Strada Alta . It has about 100 inhabitants. Together with Calonico , Cavagnago and Sobrio , Anzonico forms the so-called Traversa .

history

The village was first mentioned in 1126 as Ançonego; In 1229 Anzonico is mentioned as Degagna of the neighborhood Giornico , to which the village belonged until the establishment of its own parish in 1602, but which was obliged until 1830 to go to the mother church of San Michele in Giornico for a procession and to consecrate a candle; the 1666 the church, the steeple and numerous houses with stables and all cattle were torn away by an avalanche. 1802 belonged to the ten municipalities of the Leventina, which required the union of the valley with Uri and not with the new canton of Ticino. Vine growing is practiced on the sunny slopes of the municipality (upper limit 700 m above sea level). From 1850 onwards, Anzonico became increasingly depopulated. Numerous Rustici have been converted into holiday apartments.

Community merger

In a referendum in March 2004, the citizens of Anzonico rejected the merger of their municipality with Faido, Osco , Mairengo , Calpiogna , Campello , Rossura , Calonico, Chiggiogna , Cavagnago and Sobrio. On April 1, 2012, Anzonico merged with the municipalities of Calpiogna, Campello, Cavagnago, Chironico , Mairengo and Osco to form the existing municipality of Faido and thus joined the Faido district .

population

Population development
year	1570	1745	1850	1900	1902	1950	2000	2011
Residents	320	424	328	244	246	148	98	108

Attractions

Church of San Giovanni

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

Parish Church of San Giovanni Battista Decollato, the parish church, consecrated in 1404, was destroyed by an avalanche on January 19, 1667, like a large part of the village (88 dead); it was rebuilt in 1670 in a more protected place.
Oratory of Sant'Antonio da Padova (1678/1684)
In the district of Monte Angone: Oratorio Santa Maria Addolorata (1757).

literature

Marina Bernasconi Reusser: Monumenti storici e documenti d'archivio. I “Materiali e Documenti Ticinesi” (MDT) quali fonti per la storia e le ricerche sull'architettura e l'arte medievale delle Tre Valli. In: Archivio Storico Ticinese. 2nd series, number 148, Casagrande, Bellinzona 2010.
Piero Bianconi , Arminio Janner: Anzonico. In: Arte in Leventina. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1939, pp. 38, 98, 100.
Piero Bianconi (Ed.): Anzonico. In: Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Le Tre Valli Superiori. Leventina, Blenio, Riviera. Grassi & Co., Bellinzona 1948, pp. 3, 5.
Mario Fransioli: Anzonico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 12, 2017 , accessed January 7, 2020 .
Virgilio Gilardoni : Anzonico. In: Il Romanico. Arte e monumenti della Lombardia prealpina. Istituto grafico Casagrande, Bellinzona 1967, p. 178.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Anzonico. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007.
Celestino Trezzini : Anzonico. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 1, Altheus - Ardüser , Attinger, Neuenburg 1921, p. 393 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Website of the Faido municipality
Faido municipality data
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Faido (Italian)
Anzonico: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Federal inventory ISOS: Anzonico (PDF; 1.6 MB)
Anzonico on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

↑ Anzonico on biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 18, 2017).
↑ Mario Fransioli: Anzonico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 12, 2017 .
↑ Anzonico. In: Geographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, first volume, Aa - Emmengruppe, Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1902
↑ Mario Fransioli: Anzonico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 12, 2017 , accessed February 5, 2020 .
↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 125.

[1] Anzonico on biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 18, 2017).

[2] Mario Fransioli: Anzonico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 12, 2017 .

[3] Anzonico. In: Geographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, first volume, Aa - Emmengruppe, Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1902

[4] Mario Fransioli: Anzonico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 12, 2017 , accessed February 5, 2020 .

[5] List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.

[Martinoli-6] Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 125.