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Chironico
Chironico coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Leventina districtw
Circle : Faido County
Municipality : Faidoi2
Postal code : 6747
former BFS no. : 5070
Coordinates : 708 032  /  142251 coordinates: 46 ° 25 '22 "  N , 8 ° 50' 38"  O ; CH1903:  708032  /  142251
Height : 786  m above sea level M.
Area : 57.7  km²
Residents: 388 (December 31, 2011)
Population density : 7 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.faido.ch
Chironico

Chironico

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Parish before the merger on March 31, 2012

Until March 31, 2012, Chironico was a political municipality in the Faido district in the Leventina district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland . The village itself consists of numerous wooden houses (log buildings) that are typical of the Leventina

Community merger

On April 1, 2012, Chironico merged with the municipalities of Anzonico , Calpiogna , Campello , Cavagnago , Mairengo and Osco to form the existing municipality of Faido .

geography

Aerial photo (1964)

The village is 799 m above sea level. M. at the exit of the Ticinetto (a right-hand tributary to the Ticino (river) ) drained valley of the same name and three kilometers south of the Lavorgo station of the Gotthard Railway . The road to Chironico leaves the bottom of the valley at Lavorgo and leads through chestnut forests up the mountain to the village. Chironico is located on a terrace at the entrance of the Val Chironico, a right side valley of the Valle Leventina . The municipality includes the hamlets of Grumo not far south of Chironico and Nivo on the Ticino river opposite Lavorgo.

The terrace on which Chironico is located was built in prehistoric times as a result of a huge landslide on the opposite side of the valley. This detached itself from the left slope of the Leventina at the point where Anzonico is today, and blocked the Ticino River , which had to find a new path and in this way formed the Biaschina Gorge .

The uninhabited and partly overgrown Val Chironico is traversed by the Ticinetto river. The hamlets of Osadigo (consisting of Mun , Löita and Garnei ), Cala , Doro , Ces , Frecc, Gramonenc and Olina are located on its slopes .

Only Osadigo is inhabited and farmed by a goat farmer all year round. The rest is used in the summer months by the descendants of former residents as a weekend and summer stay.

Gribbio, the last hamlet that belongs to Chironicos Maiensässen, is located in another small side valley of the Leventina Valley. In contrast to Osadigo, Cala, Doro, Olina and Ces, Gribbio can be reached by road from Chironico or Dalpe , which did not prevent it from being abandoned.

There are numerous efforts to preserve the former cultivated land and the terraces through sustainable use, or to partially revive them.

Between Doro and Ces lies the Varenc moorland , which is included in the list of moorland areas of national importance.

history

The village was first mentioned in 1202 as vicinia Cuirono . Chironico appears as vicinia as early as 1227; it was divided into different decanie : it formed an independent rodaria and had the right to send 10 men to the general council of the valley. In 1800 Chironico still belonged to the faccia dì mezzo with Chiggiogna and Faido . The nobles of Locarno had basic rights there, which they sold at the beginning of the 13th century. The Lords of Giornico were still partially in their possession in 1309. In 1405 the basilicano (basalganum) of Chironico was assigned to gastaldia Claro .

Due to its location on the historic Gotthardweg (the Biaschina Gorge was not accessible in historical times), Chironico gained a certain importance.

population

Population development
year 1567 1745 1850 1880 1900 1950 1990 2000 2011
Residents 233 fire pits 565 829 1041 855 548 393 403 388

Attractions

The village image is classified in the inventory of protected sites in Switzerland (ISOS) as a site of national importance in Switzerland.

  • The Romanesque church of Sant'Ambrogio stands in the center of the village
  • the medieval six-story tower Torre dei Pedrini , the purpose of which is not precisely known
  • The parish church of San Maurizio stands between Chironico and Grumo
  • Oratory of San Gottardo
  • Schalenstein in the district of Cès (1446 m above sea level)

  • Village

  • Ticinetto

  • Torre Pedrini

  • old house

  • Parish Church of San Maurizio

  • Chapel of San Carlo in Grumo

Sports

Bouldering

  • 8C / V15:
    • Dances with the Rock - 2012 - Martin Keller
    • Big Paw - Nov 27, 2008 - Dave Graham
    • From Dirt Grows The Flowers - March 7, 2005 - Dave Graham
  • 8B + / V14:
    • Sunny Side Up - February 29, 2008 - Rosta Stefanek
    • Insanity of Grandeur - November 9, 2012 - Dai Koyamada
    • Big Kat - March 28, 2014 - Jimmy Webb

Soccer

  • Unione Sportiva Chironico

Personalities

  • Giovan Battista Sala (born April 19, 1764 in Olivone (today Blenio parish ), † August 30, 1847 in Giornico ), priest, pastor of Chironico, Ticino Grand Councilor
  • Giovanni Agostino Dazzoni (born September 11, 1776 in Chironico, † May 28, 1851 in Faido ), appellate judge, politician, Ticino Grand Councilor
  • Clemente Bertazzi (born February 17, 1796 in Milan , † July 2, 1860 in Chironico), von Cavagnago , pastor in Chironico and priest
  • Cherubino Darani (born August 18, 1921 in Chironico; † November 10, 2016 in Minusio ), lawyer, Ticino Grand Councilor, editor, regional director of Radiotelevisione Svizzera
  • Franco Zorzi (born August 24, 1923 in Bellinzona , † September 4, 1964 in Bignasco ), von Chironico, politician FDP , lawyer and councilor

literature

  • Antonello Ambrosio, Claudio Cameroni, Roberto Grizzi, Renzo Lodi, Nicola Vonarburg, Chironico Boulder. Ticino Boulder, 2006.
  • 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, pp. 209, 212 note 48, 214, 216 note 67, 219, 228, 229 and note 153.
  • Piero Bianconi , Arminio Janner: Chironico , Gribbio and Nivo. In: Arte in Leventina. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1939, pp. 19, 25, 45, 57, 51, 86, 101.
  • Piero Bianconi (Ed.): Chironico. In: Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Le Tre Valli Superiori. Leventina, Blenio, Riviera. Grassi & Co., Bellinzona 1948, pp. 52, 53.
  • Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni , Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, ISBN 978-88-8281-353-6 .
  • Mario Fransioli: Chironico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 12, 2017. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  • Virgilio Gilardoni , Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 36-38, 40, 285, 289, 293-300, 402, 416, 482.
  • Elsa Mango-Tomei, Vittorio F. Raschèr (ed.), Ordini dei vicini della degagna di Cala, 1447. In: Materiali e documenti ticinesi. Series I (Leventina), 32, number 786, Bellinzona 1988.
  • Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007.
  • Laura Patocchi-Doubt, L'inverno delle valanghe. In: Azione. Number 3, January 17, 2011 * Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, pp. 85-88.
  • Ilde Pedretti: La chiesa romanica di Sant'Ambrogio a Chironico. Ilde Pedretti, Chironico 1990.
  • Agostino Robertini, Silvano Toppi, Gian Piero Pedrazzi: Chironico. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1974, pp. 153-178.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Chironico. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Cavadini - Daegerlen. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1924, p. 568 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e 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. 121–122.
  2. ↑ Ces on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 18, 2016.)
  3. ↑ Mario Fransioli: Chironico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 12, 2017 , accessed April 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Mario Fransioli: Chironico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 12, 2017 , accessed April 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
  6. ^ Church of Sant'Ambrogio (photo)
  7. ↑ Torre dei Pedrini
  8. ↑ Torre dei Pedrini (photo)
  9. ↑ Parish Church of San Maurizio (photo)
  10. ↑ Oratorio San Gottardo (photo)
  11. ^ Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni , Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, p. 63.
  12. ^ Unione Sportiva Chironico
  13. ↑ Francesca Luisoni: Giovan Battista Sala. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 7, 2010 , accessed March 19, 2020 .
  14. ^ Fabrizio Panzera: Giovanni Agostino Dazzoni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 31, 2004 , accessed December 20, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Andrea Ghiringhelli: Clemente Bertazzi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 18, 2004 , accessed April 2, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Pasquale Genasci: Cherubino Darani. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 27, 2017 , accessed April 2, 2020 .
  17. ^ Andrea Ghiringhelli: Franco Zorzi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 19, 2012 , accessed April 2, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Ilde Pedretti: La chiesa romanica di Sant'Ambrogio a Chironico. at portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 18, 2016.)