Broglio TI

Broglio

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Vallemaggia district

Municipality :

Lavizzara

Postal code :

6693

Coordinates :

693997 / 136905 coordinates: 46 ° 22 '37 " N , 8 ° 39' 37" O ; CH1903: 693997 / 136905

Height :

700 m above sea level M.

Area :

12.94 km²

Residents:

92 (2006)

Population density :

7 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.lavizzara.ch

map

Parish before the merger on April 4, 2004

Parish Church of Santa Maria di Loreto

Al sasc du diáol (devil's block )

Broglio is a fraction of the political municipality Lavizzara in the Lavizzara district , in the Vallemaggia district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

geography

The village is 710 m above sea level. M. on the Locarno - Fusio road and on the right bank of the Maggia (river) ; 25 km northwest of Locarno.

history

The village was first mentioned in 1361 as the Brono . By the end of the 14th century, the village must have formed a single municipality with Prato-Sornico , Peccia and Fusio . On September 10, 1397, the common area was divided. Broglio first belonged to the parish of Locarno , then to Sornico; before 1647 it was detached from it as an independent sub-parish.

Community merger

The previously independent political municipality Broglio was merged on April 4, 2004 with the former municipalities of Fusio , Brontallo , Menzonio , Peccia and Prato-Sornico to form Lavizzara.

Local civil parish

President: Claudio Donati

owner

Monti di Rima
Alpe e capanna Tomeo
Alpe Vaccariscio
Alpe Brunescio

population

Population development
year	17th century	1850	1870	1900	1910	1950	2000	2006
Residents	approx. 200	109	153	108	57	73	88	92

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 Santa Maria di Loreto
Ossuary, 1684
Oratory Madonna della Neve in the district of Monti di Rima, mentioned (1599)
Prayer chapel
Pometta house, former Corregione d'Orello.
Three elevated granaries
Stone fountain in the Monti di Rima district
Schalenstein (character stone) on the border of the former municipality of Prato-Sornico (900 m above sea level)

Personalities

Jean-Pierre Pescatore (born March 11, 1793 in Luxembourg ; † December 9, 1855 in Paris, town of Broglio), an entrepreneur, banker and benefactor

Pometta family
- Pietro Battista Pometta (* 1775 in Broglio; † 1843 there), lawyer, notary and military surgeon
- Benedetto Pometta (* 1804 in Broglio; † 1875 ibid), lawyer and notary, judge of the appellate court , politician, refugee in Piedmont
- Angelo Pometta (* 1834 in Broglio, † 1843 in Broglio), country doctor in Val Maggia, mayor of Broglio, Ticino Grand Councilor, president of the Società agricola valmaggese
- Eligio Pometta (1865–1950), a Swiss politician, local researcher and historian
- Daniele Pometta (* 1869 in Broglio; † 1949 in Lucerne ), chief physician of the Istituto Nazionale Assicurazioni Infortuni in Lucerne
- Angiolo Pometta called don Verità (born April 16, 1871 in Broglio (today the municipality of Lavizzara ), † August 1, 1951 in Lugano ), Roman Catholic priest; Journalist, director of La Patria newspaper , Canon of Lugano, rector of the Lugano seminary
- Giuseppe Pometta (1872–1963), lecturer and local historian
- Mansueto Pometta (* 1874 in Broglio; † 1962 in Bellinzona ), forest engineer at the ETH Zurich , Massagno municipal council , State Councilor
- Carlo Pometta (born June 13, 1896 in Giornico , † December 29, 1979 in Lausanne ), lawyer, federal court
- Francesca Pometta (1926–2016), Swiss ambassador

Giuseppe Zoppi (1896–1952), writer, lecturer

Franco Donati (born December 1, 1932 in Locarno), son of Riccardo, electrical engineer, politician (CVP), 1998 National Councilor , colonel in the ( Swiss Army ) (transmission troops ); since 2000 he has been a councilor in Tegna

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 .
Heinrich Buchmann: Geology and petrography of the upper Maggia valley between Fusio and Broglio in northwest Ticino. Basel 1953.
Guglielmo Buetti: Note Storiche Religiose delle Chiese e Parrocchie della Pieve di Locarno, (1902), e della Verzasca, Gambarogno, Valle Maggia e Ascona (1906). 2nd edition, Pedrazzini Edizioni, Locarno 1969.
Adriano Caprioli, Antonio Rimoldi, Luciano Vaccaro: Diocesi di Como. La Scuola, Brescia 1986, p. 84.
Daniela Pauli Falconi: Broglio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 17, 2017 , accessed December 29, 2019 .
Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Tipografia Stazione SA, Locarno 1972, pp. 8, 10, 25, 151, 153, 182, 192, 196, 236-237, 375-376, 417-418.
Celestino Trezzini : Broglio. ( Digitized version ) In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Biondetti - Brupbacher , Attinger, Neuenburg 1924, p. 362, (accessed on July 4, 2017).

Art history

Piero Bianconi : Broglio. In: Arte in Vallemaggia. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1937, p. 65.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 262, 263, 264.

Web links

Commons : Broglio TI - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the municipality of Lavizzara
Data from the Lavizzara municipality
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Lavizzara (Italian)
Broglio: Inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Lavizzara (Italian)
Federal inventory ISOS: Broglio (PDF; 4.1 MB)
Broglio on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Broglio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 17th January 2017 .
↑ Broglio at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on July 4, 2017).
^ Bruno Donati, Mario Donati: L'Alpe e la capanna Tomeo. Elementi storici, geografici e proposte d'itinerari. Patriziato di Broglio, Broglio 2014.
↑ Patriziato di Broglio (Italian) in lavizzara.ch, accessed January 10, 2016.
^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Broglio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 17th January 2017 .
↑ 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 Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by the Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 262–264.
↑ Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Pp. 325, 399-400.
↑ Borrani, 1896, 224-225.
^ Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò Editore , Locarno 2013, p. 80.
^ Jean-Pierre Pescatore (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti (accessed on November 1, 2016).
↑ Marco Marcacci: Pometta. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 22, 2008 , accessed April 22, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, pp. 25, 60, 61, 72.
^ Editing: Angiolo Pometta. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 12, 2011 , accessed December 18, 2019 .
↑ Fernando Zappa: Angiolo Pometta. In: Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, pp. 25, 72-74.
^ Pablo Crivelli: Carlo Pometta. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 16, 2008 .
↑ Giuseppe Zoppi (Italian) in bibliomedia.ch/de/fuer-alle/schweizer-autoren-und-autorinnen/autor-im-detail/giuseppe-zoppi/, accessed December 23, 2015
^ Fabrizio Panzera: Franco Donati. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 18, 2010 .
^ Heinrich Buchmann: Geology and petrography of the upper Maggia valley between Fusio and Broglio in northwest Ticino.

[1] Daniela Pauli Falconi: Broglio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 17th January 2017 .

[2] Broglio at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on July 4, 2017).

[3] Bruno Donati, Mario Donati: L'Alpe e la capanna Tomeo. Elementi storici, geografici e proposte d'itinerari. Patriziato di Broglio, Broglio 2014.

[4] Patriziato di Broglio (Italian) in lavizzara.ch, accessed January 10, 2016.

[5] Daniela Pauli Falconi: Broglio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 17th January 2017 .

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

[Martinoli-7] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by the Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 262–264.

[8] Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Pp. 325, 399-400.

[9] Borrani, 1896, 224-225.

[10] Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò Editore , Locarno 2013, p. 80.

[11] Jean-Pierre Pescatore (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti (accessed on November 1, 2016).

[12] Marco Marcacci: Pometta. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 22, 2008 , accessed April 22, 2020 .

[Pometta-13] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, pp. 25, 60, 61, 72.

[14] Editing: Angiolo Pometta. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 12, 2011 , accessed December 18, 2019 .

[15] Fernando Zappa: Angiolo Pometta. In: Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, pp. 25, 72-74.

[16] Pablo Crivelli: Carlo Pometta. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 16, 2008 .

[17] Giuseppe Zoppi (Italian) in bibliomedia.ch/de/fuer-alle/schweizer-autoren-und-autorinnen/autor-im-detail/giuseppe-zoppi/, accessed December 23, 2015

[18] Fabrizio Panzera: Franco Donati. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 18, 2010 .

[19] Heinrich Buchmann: Geology and petrography of the upper Maggia valley between Fusio and Broglio in northwest Ticino.