Aurigeno

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Vallemaggia district

Circle :

Maggia district

Municipality :

Maggia TI

Postal code :

6677

Coordinates :

698 247 / 120726 coordinates: 46 ° 13 '51 " N , 8 ° 42' 44" O ; CH1903: six hundred and ninety-eight thousand two hundred and forty-seven / 120726

Height :

341 m above sea level M.

Area :

11.04 km²

Residents:

384 (2003)

Population density :

35 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.maggia.ch

Aurigeno

map

Parish before the merger on April 4, 2004

Aurigeno

Fresco: Madonna di Re

Ronchini post bus stop

River Maggia at Aurigeno

Aurìgeno is a former municipality in the Maggia district , in the Vallemaggia district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

geography

Aerial photo (1954)

The place is on the right side of the river Maggia about 13 km north of Locarno , at an altitude of 341 m above sea level. M. and is now part of the municipality of Maggia , which was founded on April 4, 2004 .

history

The hamlets "Terra di Fuori" and "Ronchini" belong to the village. First mentioned in 1276 as Urigeno . In the district of "Ronchini" there are many houses from the 17th and 18th centuries. You can see several testimonies of rural culture.

At the beginning of the 15th century Aurigeno took an active part in the battles that tore the Maggia Valley; on November 20, 1404, a peace treaty was signed between Aurigeno and the communities of the valley, as well as Cevio and Bosco / Gurin . Under Swiss rule (since 1503) Aurigeno designated the bailiff's chancellor when the canton of Nidwalden provided the bailiff; It sent three deputies to the council of the lower valley and in turn appointed one of the seven judges, conjudices, who were elected by the communities and charged with assisting the bailiff in the administration of the law.

Local civil parish

Active local citizen families are Barca, Dellagana, Giovanetti, Grossini, Maggini, Pisoni, Stefanazzi and Vanoni.

population

Population development
year	1591	1709	1801	1850	1900	1902	1910	1950	1970	2000	2003
Residents	circa 325	398	302	297	219	220	211	214	127	372	384

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 San Bartolomeo first mentioned in the 13th century, renovated (1761) and restored (1991)
Cemetery column
Oratory Sant'Antonio Abate in the Ronchi district, built at the end of the 15th century, preserves late Gothic frescoes (1508)
Town house with fresco Sancta Maria Sanguinis or Madonna di Re
Villa Parigina
Barca house in the Terra di Fuori district
Villa Hermitage in the Ronchini district
Patricia Highsmith's home
Mill (1840), in operation until 1924
Romanesque bridge over the Rii della Terra di Fuori
Shell stone on the border with Avegno-Gordevio (480 m above sea level)

Personalities

Giovanni Calzoni (* 1697 in Aurigeno; † after 1727 there), priest and theologian

Vanoni family
- Giovanni Antonio Vanoni (born March 14, 1810 in Aurigeno; † October 26, 1886 there), painter
- Luigi Vanoni (born April 11, 1854 in Aurigeno; † July 5, 1940 in Aurigeno), civil engineer, senior telegraph director in Bern
- Luigi Vanoni (born October 21, 1876 in Aurigeno; † November 7, 1972 ibid), opera singer

Patricia Highsmith (born January 19, 1921 in Fort Worth ; † February 4, 1995 in Locarno ), writer, lived in Aurigeno.
Pier Giacomo Grampa (born October 28, 1936 in Busto Arsizio ), Bishop of the Diocese of Lugano , former rector of Collegio Papio in Ascona .

literature

Giovanni Bianconi : Vallemaggia. Edizioni LEMA, Agno 1969.
Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò Editore , Locarno 2013, ISBN 978-88-8281-353-6 .
Rinaldo Giambonini, Agostino Robertini, Silvano Toppi: Aurigeno. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1971, pp. 33-34.
Daniela Pauli Falconi: Aurigeno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2017 , accessed January 7, 2020 .
Rivista Patriziale Ticinese. Number 264, March 2007, pp. 7-8.
Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Tipografia Stazione SA, Locarno 1972, pp. 14, 63, 121, 151, 171, 184, 290-291, 344-345, 348-349, 422.
Celestino Trezzini : Aurigeno ( digitalisat ) In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 1, Ardutius - Basel , Neuenburg 1921, p. 484, (accessed on June 15, 2017).

Art history

Piero Bianconi : Aurigeno. In: Arte in Vallemaggia. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1937, pp. 40, 83.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History . Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 240-246.

Web links

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

Official website of the municipality of Maggia
Data from the municipality of Maggia
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Maggia (Italian)
Aurigeno: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Federal inventory ISOS: Aurigeno (PDF; 6.2 MB)
Aurigeno on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

^ Daniela Pauli Falconi, Aurigeno.
↑ Celestino Trezzini : Aurigeno. Digitized at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 26, 2017).
↑ Aurigeno. In: Geographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, first volume, Aa - Emmengruppe, Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1902
^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Aurigeno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 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 ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 240–246.
↑ Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Tipografia Stazione SA, Locarno 1972, pp. 325, 348.
^ Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni , Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, p. 40.
↑ Celestino Trezzini: Giovanni Calzoni. Digital version ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on July 15, 2017).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / biblio.unibe.ch

^ Gianmarco Talamona: Vanoni, Luigi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 23, 2011 .

↑ Luigi Vanoni (Italian) on ricercamusica.ch/dizionario/ (accessed on: December 5, 2017.)

[1] Daniela Pauli Falconi, Aurigeno.

[2] Celestino Trezzini : Aurigeno. Digitized at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 26, 2017).

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

[4] Daniela Pauli Falconi: Aurigeno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 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] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 240–246.

[7] Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Tipografia Stazione SA, Locarno 1972, pp. 325, 348.

[8] Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni , Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, p. 40.

[9] Celestino Trezzini: Giovanni Calzoni. Digital version ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on July 15, 2017).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / biblio.unibe.ch

[10] Gianmarco Talamona: Vanoni, Luigi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 23, 2011 .

[11] Luigi Vanoni (Italian) on ricercamusica.ch/dizionario/ (accessed on: December 5, 2017.)