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Comologno
Comologno coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Locarno districtw
Circle : Onsernone County
Municipality : Onsernonei2
Postal code : 6663
Coordinates : 687.84 thousand  /  117540 coordinates: 46 ° 12 '13 "  N , 8 ° 34' 36"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty-seven thousand eight hundred forty  /  117540
Height : 1085  m above sea level M.
Residents: 142 (December 31, 1990)
Website: www.onsernone.ch
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Comologno (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 1995
Church of San Giovanni Battista, bell tower
Place at night
Alpe Salei

Comologno was until January 1, 1995 a municipality in the Onsernone district , in the Locarno district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

geography

At 1085 m above sea level M. located, 26 km from Locarno . In addition to the village of Comologno, the former municipality included the districts of Vocaglia, Corbella, Cappellino and Spruga (the last village in the valley before the border with Italy ).

history

The village is mentioned as a Comolognium in 1438 . During the Ancien Régime the village belonged to the Squadra Crana, which together with the other villages of the valley (with the exception of Auressio ) formed the community of Onsernone, which dates back to the Middle Ages. With the establishment of the Canton of Ticino in 1803, Comologno became an independent municipality.

Community merger

It merged with Crana and Russo to form Onsernone municipality . The municipality includes the localities of Spruga, Monti di Spruga and Bagni di Craveggia.

population

Population development
year 1719 1769 1795 1808 1850 1900 1950 1960 1990
Residents 182 209 253 333 440 624 477 281 142

Attractions

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

Sacred buildings

  • Parish Church of San Giovanni Battista, built at the end of the 17th century
  • Santa Croce Oratory in Spruga, built in the 17th century.

Civil buildings

  • Palace or Castello della Barca built in 1770 by architect Guglielmo Antonio Maria Remonda
  • Gamboni house, 1730
  • Remonda house or Palazzo di sotto , 1761
  • Enrico Barbaglia house, formerly Remonda, 1767.

Others

  • Frescoes by contemporary artists decorate some houses in the village.

Foundation, endowment

  • Associazione Amici di Comologno

Personalities

  • Carlo Francesco Remonda (1761–1847), French general in the French Revolutionary Wars
  • Walther Rode (1876–1934), lawyer, writer
  • Paolo Mordasini (born March 25, 1830 in Comologno, † December 17, 1882 in Locarno ), lawyer, journalist, politician, Ticino Grand Councilor and Council of States
  • Augusto Mordasini (born September 8, 1846 in Comologno; † February 3, 1888 in Locarno), lawyer, journalist, politician, Ticino Grand Councilor
  • Aline Valangin (1889–1986), writer, pianist and psychoanalyst
  • Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935), German journalist and writer
  • Max Ernst (1891–1976), painter and sculptor
  • Max Bill (1908–1994), Swiss architect, artist and designer

literature

  • Piero Bianconi : Comologno in the Onsernone Valley. Paul Haupt, Bern 1972.
  • 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.
  • Vasco Gamboni: Comologno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 15, 2004 , accessed January 8, 2020 .
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, p. 225.
  • Elfi Rüsch: I monumenti d'arte e di storia del Canton Ticino. Distretto di Locarno IV: La Verzasca, il Pedemonte, le Centovalli e l'Onsernone. (= The art monuments of Switzerland. Volume 123). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History SKG. Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-084-3 , pp. 378-396.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Comologno. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Cavadini - Daegerlen. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1924, p. 610 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vasco Gamboni: Comologno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 15, 2004 .
  2. ^ Vasco Gamboni: Comologno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 15, 2004 .
  3. ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 226-228.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Elfi Rüsch: Distretto di Locarno IV. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History. Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-084-3 , pp. 378-396.
  6. ↑ Associazione Amici di Comologno on portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 21, 2016.)
  7. ^ Fabrizio Mena: Paolo Mordasini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 30, 2008 , accessed April 12, 2020 .
  8. ^ Fabrizio Mena: Augusto Mordasini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 5, 2009 , accessed April 12, 2020 .
  9. ^ Piero Bianconi: Comologno in the Onsernone Valley. at portal.dnb.de (accessed on: June 21, 2016.)