Auressio

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Auressio
Auressio 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 : 696 136  /  117 416 coordinates: 46 ° 12 '5 "  N , 8 ° 41' 3"  O ; CH1903:  696136  /  117 416
Height : 631  m above sea level M.
Area : 2.97  km²
Residents: 71 (December 31, 2000)
Population density : 24 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.onsernone.ch
Auressio

Auressio

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Parish before the merger on April 13, 2001
Auressio with Pizzo Peloso in the background
Villa Edera in Auressio, built in 1888
Ponte Oscuro bridge (1940)

Auressio is a village and former a political municipality in the Onsernone district , in the Locarno district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

geography

The village is 661 m above sea level. First village of the Valle Onsernone , 12 km west of Locarno . As the lowest village in the Onsernone Valley, the village is on the road from Cavigliano to Vergeletto and Spruga .

history

In 1233 Auressio was first mentioned as Oraxio . The church of St. Antonio Abate was completed in 1526 and formed a parish with Loco . It was not until 1792 that the parishes were separated.

Until the 19th century, the village was more closely connected to the Pedemonte than the rest of the Onsernone Valley , and the connection to the other valley villages was only facilitated by the new cantonal road. In September 1800, Auressio issued the signal to raise the Onsernone Valley against the Helvetian regiment and the French occupation forces in Ticino. The Prefect of Lugano ordered the military occupation of Auressio and the extradition of 8 citizens. A detachment that had gone out to carry out this order was greeted with a hail of heavy stones which the peasants rolled down the mountain. A second expedition could not be carried out because of the heavy rain, and when the third finally occupied the village, the authors of the uprising had taken to safety.

After the Second World War , agriculture came to an almost complete standstill and the population emigrated. Later on, the area became more attractive due to improved infrastructure and, at the end of the 20th century, the population grew again. Most of the residents live in Auressio and work in and around Locarno.

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

population

Population development
year 1795 1801 1808 1850 1900 1902 1910 1950 1960 2000
Residents 240 272 273 198 164 193 139 76 52 71

Attractions

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 Sant'Antonio Abate, consecrated in 1526
  • Villa Edera (1887/1888), architect Paolo Antonio Calzonio, today a youth hostel
  • Romanesque stone bridges south of the village towards Collo and about 4 km away in Cavigliano (Ponte di Cràtolo) on the former mulattiera between Cavigliano and Auressio via Cresmino Case, Cràtolo di Sotto and Giardino
  • today abandoned route of the oldest canton road (carozzabile) into Onsernone from 1849 with stone arch bridges

Personalities

  • Pacifico Peverada (* 1844 in Auressio; † October 15, 1921 ibid), sculptor, plasterer
  • Gebhard Werner von der Schulenburg (author) , pseud. Gebhard Werner (1881–1958), German playwright and novelist.
  • Alfred Fernand Armand Dürig alias Armand Schulthess (1901–1972), Swiss object and text artist
  • Emil Gerber (1909–1982), writer, poet, actor, died in Auressio

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vasco Gamboni: Auressio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 30, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Auressio. Digitized at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 26, 2017).
  3. ↑ Auressio. In: Geographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, first volume, Aa - Emmengruppe, Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1902
  4. ↑ Celestino Trezzini: Auressio. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1921, page 483.
  5. ^ Vasco Gamboni: Auressio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2017 , accessed February 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
  7. ↑ a b c d Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 222.
  8. ↑ Pacifico Peverada. In: Sikart , accessed January 15, 2016.
  9. ↑ Werner von der Schulenburg on ticinarte.ch (accessed on: August 24, 2016.)
  10. ^ Markus Britschgi: Armand Schulthess. In: Sikart (status: 1998) , accessed January 6, 2016.
  11. ^ Emil Gerber filmography