Brontallo

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Brontallo
Brontallo coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Vallemaggia districtw
Circle : Lavizzara district
Municipality : Lavizzarai2
Postal code : 6692
former BFS no. : 5323
Coordinates : 691 507  /  134 476 coordinates: 46 ° 21 '20 "  N , 8 ° 37' 39"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred ninety-one thousand five hundred and seven  /  one hundred and thirty-four thousand four hundred seventy-six
Height : 726  m above sea level M.
Area : 10.46  km²
Residents: 60 (2006)
Population density : 6 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.lavizzara.ch
Brontallo

Brontallo

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Brontallo (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on April 4, 2004
Old farmhouses

Brontallo is a fraction of the political municipality Lavizzara in the Lavizzara district , in the Vallemaggia district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The previously independent political municipality of Brontallo was merged on April 4, 2004 with the former municipalities of Broglio , Fusio , Menzonio , Peccia and Prato-Sornico to form the municipality of Lavizzara.

geography

Brontallo is 750  m above sea level. M. on a rocky sun terrace at the foot of a rocky promontory of the Pizzo di Brünesc . The first village in Val Lavizzara is on the right side of the valley. The steep mountain slopes are terraced with dry stone walls with a total length of 22 km. This enables agricultural use and prevents the rainwater and meltwater from flowing away too quickly. The houses were laid out in steps on the slope. Residential houses and the stables to the east were separated to protect the residents from landslides in the Il Sasso della Catena zone .

history

In the Middle Ages Brontallo formed a municipality with Menzonio and in 1340 a Vicinia . The village was first mentioned in 1574 as Bruntalo . Up to the beginning of the 15th century, Brontallo and Menzonio formed a municipality and, with Bignasco and Cavergno, a Vicinia. The church of Santa Maria and San Giorgio , mentioned in 1496 - the facade shows a huge image of St. Christopher - was rebuilt in 1653 and then restored several times. Until 1513 it formed part of the parish of Cevio together with Menzonio , from which it separated in 1655. The ossuary shows frescoes from the 16th century.

population

Population development
year 1669 1765 1795 1845 1850 1900 1920 1950 2000 2006 2016
Residents 227 107 90 173 173 118 133 92 50 60 55

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 Giorgio
  • Ossuary
  • Prayer chapel
  • In the district of Margoneggia: Oratorio Sant'Antonio da Padova
  • Two chestnut smoking houses (Gra)

economy

The population has always been farming and grazing. The connecting road down to Val Lavizzara was not completed until 1955. In 1990 only a third of the workforce was employed in agriculture. Of the 50 inhabitants in 2000, two people were in agriculture, five in industry, three in the service sector and 40 inactive. In 2006 there were five farms with 66 livestock units (LU), mainly goats and sheep. There are a large number of second homes in the village.

The Pro Brontallo association was founded in 1994 to stop the old agricultural structures from falling apart . With the help of donations, the population began to repair roads and clear terraces. Old vines were renewed and young chestnut trees were planted. Next, the old mill and the drying house for the chestnuts, the Gràa , are to be restored. The Fondazione monti e paesaggio Brontallo supports an agrotourism project with which it won the main prize of the Swiss Association for Mountain Regions (SAB) in 2005 . In 2007, dilapidated buildings on Monte Scinghiöra and a rustico in Brontallo are to be renovated for agritourism .

Transport and tourism

The village can be reached by post bus from Locarno with a change in Bignasco. The road, built in 1955, ends just below the village at a parking lot. It is passable in winter. The well-preserved village center is entered in the federal inventory of Swiss sites worthy of protection (ISOS).

literature

  • Giovanni Bianconi : Vallemaggia. Edizioni LEMA, Agno 1969.
  • Bruno Donati: Brontallo un villaggio da salvare. In: Valmaggia Viva. 1974, pp. 39-45.
  • Bruno Donati, Stefano Vassere (eds.): Brontallo. In: Repertorio toponomastico ticinese. Archivio di Stato, Bellinzona 2009.
  • Daniela Pauli Falconi: Brontallo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 17, 2017 , accessed January 7, 2020 .
  • Agostino Robertini et al. a .: Brontallo. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1978, pp. 37-46.
  • Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Tipografia Stazione SA, Locarno 1972, pp. 61-62, 79, 92, 151, 172-173, 292-293, 325, 327, 341-342, 377-378, 409.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Brontallo. ( Digitized version ) In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Biondetti - Brupbacher , Attinger, Neuenburg 1924, p. 364, (accessed on July 4, 2017).
Art history
  • Piero Bianconi : Brontallo. In: Arte in Vallemaggia. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1937, p. 61.
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, p. 262.
  • Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, p. 72.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Brontallo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 17th January 2017 .
  2. ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Brontallo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 17th January 2017 .
  3. ↑ Brontallo on brontallo.com
  4. ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 262.
  6. ↑ Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Pp. 325, 409-410.