Calonico

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Calonico
Coat of arms of Calonico
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Leventina districtw
Circle : Faido County
Municipality : Faidoi2
Postal code : 6746
former BFS no. : 5065
Coordinates : 707 760  /  145302 coordinates: 46 ° 27 '1 "  N , 8 ° 50' 28"  O ; CH1903:  707 760  /  145302
Height : 961  m above sea level M.
Residents: 57 (December 31, 2005)
Website: www.faido.ch
Calonico

Calonico

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Calonico (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 28, 2006
San Martino Church
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Old Mill

Calonico was a municipality in the Faido district in the Leventina district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland . Since January 29, 2006 it has been part of the Faido municipality .

geography

Aerial photo (1954)

The village is located on the left slope of the Leventina Valley at 965 m above sea level. M. on a sunny terrace one and a half kilometers away to the Lavorgo station of the Gotthard Railway and on the Strada Alta . Outside the village on a rocky promontory stands the parish church of San Martino. Because of this location, it dominates the entire Middle Leventina, from the terrace with Chironico up to Faido. The old mill of Calonico has been renovated and can be visited.

Calonico can be reached from Lavorgo by a five-kilometer mountain road that branches off from main road 2 . Together with Anzonico , Cavagnago and Sobrio , Calonico forms the so-called Traversa .

history

The village was first mentioned in 1227 as Callonego ; it was, probably together with Lavorgo, one of the five Degagne of the Chiggiogna neighborhood and belonged to the Chiggiogna parish, from which it split off in 1602. The parish church of San Martino, documented since 1300, was built away from the village in a picturesque location on a rocky promontory dominating the middle Leventina. In 1834 the village suffered from the storm of August 27th.

Merger with Faido

In a referendum in March 2004, the citizens of the small municipality of Calonico rejected the merger with Faido, Osco , Mairengo , Calpiogna , Campello , Rossura , Anzonico, Chiggiogna, Cavagnago and Sobrio. Despite the negative referendum, the local government decided in spring 2005 to join the new Faido community. On June 5, 2005, the new merger bill was passed in a referendum.

The municipality of Calonico had 57 inhabitants on December 31, 2005 and was financially dependent on the canton.

population

Population development
year 1574 1745 1850 1900 1950 2000 2005
Residents 179 93 122 81 48 42 57

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 Martino
  • Oratory of San Giovanni Battista, built 1641–1642, with frescoes
  • Regina house, made of wood, built in 1684
  • Old mill, 18th century.

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, p. 217.
  • Piero Bianconi , Arminio Janner: Calonico. In: Arte in Leventina. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1939, pp. 12, 36.
  • Piero Bianconi (Ed.): Calonico. In: Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Le Tre Valli Superiori. Leventina, Blenio, Riviera. Grassi & Co., Bellinzona 1948, p. 31.
  • Mario Fransioli: Calonico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 12, 2017 , accessed January 8, 2020 .
  • Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 254-255.
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 124-125.
  • Thomas Müller: Mulino di Calonico, 1813–2013. Association Pro Mulino di Calonico, Calonico 2013.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Calonico. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Brusino - Caux , Attinger, Neuchâtel 1924, p. 474 ( biblio.unibe.ch PDF). (accessed on July 15, 2017).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mario Fransioli: Calonico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Calonico  ( 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  
  3. ↑ Mario Fransioli: Calonico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 22, 2016 .
  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 Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 124–125.
  6. ↑ Parish Church of San Martino (photo).
  7. ^ Oratory of San Giovanni Battista, interior view, frescoes by the Doctors of the Church
  8. ^ Thomas Müller: Mulino di Calonico, 1813-2013. in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 3, 2016.)
  9. ↑ Mühle Calonico in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 3, 2016.)