Chiesa San Carlo di Negrentino
The Chiesa San Carlo di Negrentino is located in the municipality of Acquarossa in the Blenio valley in the canton of Ticino . It was consecrated to Ambrosius of Milan until 1610, the year Charles Borromeo was canonized. Until the beginning of the 18th century it was the parish church of Prugiasco .
location
The church is located to the west above the village of Prugiasco and below its Alps south of the hamlet of Negrentino at an altitude of 854 meters. The mule track from the Gotthard Pass and the Leventina passed over the Narapass into the Blenio Valley and to Bellinzona near a deep gorge . This enabled the traffic-unfavorable Piottino and Biaschina gorges of the Ticino to be avoided. Accordingly, the entire Dagagna of Prugiasco, including this church, was politically part of the Leventina until 1803 and not, as topographically more obvious, of the Blenio valley.
Since May 2007, the church has been easily accessible from the village of Leontica via a curved modern suspension bridge. The construction of the bridge was made possible by the Lions Club Alto Ticino. The keys to the church are available from all restaurants in Acquarossa and Leontica or from Blenio Turismo in Olivone.
history
The two-aisled church with double apse was first mentioned in writing in 1214, but goes back to an earlier time. It was built in two stages. The original Romanesque apse room from the 11th century was probably expanded in the 13th century to the south by a similar, but narrower room with a smaller apse. The earlier entrances in the north (male entrance) and west wall (female entrance) have been replaced by a western and southern portal in the new southern part. At the same time, perhaps a little earlier, the campanile was built on the north side.
The sacristy added to the south and the windows of the apses, which were only broken out later, date from post-medieval times . In 1942-44 the church was restored and another restoration is currently underway.
construction
The larger apse of the old building was built from blocks of different sizes and colors. Above it, the course of the original gable roof is indicated. Pilaster strips created three fields of different sizes, which are crowned by small arcades. On the right side of a window there is a relief of a peacock as a symbol of life.
The tower, slightly detached from the main building on the north side, has three rows of double-arched windows. On the east side of the valley, the red and white cross coats of arms of the Blenio valley (left, with a swearing hand) and the Leventina (right, with a blessing hand) are attached.
They are surmounted by the Uri coat of arms, which was chipped off in places in 1798, as a sign of rule from Uri to Prugiasco (as part of the neighborhood of Chiggiogna) and thus to the pass crossing into the Leventina. This had extensive autonomy under the Urner Obervogt in Faido, which was discharged in 1755 after his assaults in the bloodily suppressed "Livin uprising". Like the other "Ennetbirgischen Bailiwicks", Leventina remained subject to the three inner Swiss towns of the Old Confederation until 1798 .
The image of the pit and the depiction of St. Michael above the southern entrance portal date from the 15th century. Inside, the flat-roofed room is divided by a brick column and two arches.
on the left the younger, on the right the older apse
Campanile
Layout
photos
The church interior is richly decorated with frescoes from three different epochs.
The oldest picture by an unknown artist, a depiction of the Ascension of Christ before the Apostles above the walled-up portal on the west wall of the old ship, probably dates from the mid-11th century. Stylistic and technical details and the Byzantine-influenced style of the figures show a relationship with the frescoes from the Basilica di San Vincenzo in Galliano and San Pietro al Monte in Civate in Lombardy .
The luminous paintings on the north side of the nave and in the large apse are probably by Lombardo da Giubiasco (1453–1483) and Cristoforo or Nicolao da Seregno , whose presence in Lottigna on the other side of the valley is documented around the middle of the 15th century. The painters could have been on the way over the Lukmanier to the Surselva , where they painted, among other things, the chapel of St. Agatha in Disentis, which was also on the old road over the pass.
The frescoes on the southern nave are attributed to Antonio da Tradate (approx. 1465–1520) from Ticino, who also left numerous frescoes in other churches and chapels in Ticino. His themes are taken from the life of the Virgin Mary and represent episodes from the Apocrypha , which was unusual at that time. The large picture on the southern half of the west wall shows St. Ambrose in the Battle of Parabiago between St. Gervasius and Protasius.
large apse
large apse and central pillar
small apse
Arch, looking NW
literature
- Art guide through Switzerland , published by the Society for Swiss Art History, Volume 2, Bern 2005
- Klaus Speich / Hans Schläpfer: Churches and monasteries in Switzerland ; Ex-Libris-Verlag, Zurich 1978, p. 97
- Blenio Turismo brochure
Web links
- Ticino.ch
- Renzo Dionigi: Church of San Carlo di Negrentino, frescoes
- Tessiner Zeitung: Obwaldner launches church restoration. By Martina Kobiela
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agglomerati di Cemento ( Memento of September 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Church of San Carlo di Negrentino ( 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.
- ↑ Antonio da Tradate on Ticino.ch ( 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.
Coordinates: 46 ° 27 '45.5 " N , 8 ° 55' 22.4" E ; CH1903: 714010 / 146779