Corippo
Corippo | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Ticino (TI) |
District : | Locarno district |
Circle : | Verzasca district |
BFS no. : | 5102 |
Postal code : | 6631 |
Coordinates : | 708017 / 121470 |
Height : | 563 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 455-2066 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 7.73 km² |
Residents: | 11 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 1 inhabitant per km² |
Website: | www.corippo.ch |
Location of the municipality | |
Corippo is a municipality in the Verzasca Valley . It belongs to the county Verzasca , District Locarno of Canton Ticino in Switzerland . Corippo is the smallest political municipality in Switzerland by number of inhabitants. The village center was placed under a preservation order in 1975 and recognized as exemplary.
geography
The cluster village is at 552 m above sea level. M. in the valley cut on the right bank of the Verzasca river , at the northern end of the Lago di Vogorno reservoir , 7 km northwest of the Gordola station on the Bellinzona - Locarno line of the Gotthard Railway .
history
The village was first mentioned as Culipo in 1224 , then Corippo became an independent municipality in 1822. Since the most important source of income for the inhabitants, livestock farming, was limited by the scarcity of agricultural resources, the number of permanent residents has steadily decreased since the middle of the 19th century.
The village has been accessible by a road since 1883. Before that, the cattle were driven over mule tracks to winter in the Magadino plain .
After 40 years of unsuccessful efforts to make the village more attractive as a primary residence, the Corippo 1975 Foundation, committed to preserving the village, planned to convert the village into an "Albergo diffuso", a "scattered hotel", from 2017. Before that, the idea of a REKA village had failed due to the large adjustments required. The project received the Hotel Innovation Award 2017 from Gastrosuisse. The first room was ready in July 2018 and operations were due to start in the spring of 2019 after the restoration of further rustici during the autumn. After the start of operations, the old village oven and the mill on the village stream below the settlement will also be restored. In 2018, the village was not connected to a wastewater treatment plant either, but used a septic tank , which could probably reach its load limit when fully operational with 10 rooms and 25 beds.
The communities in the valley decided in 2018 to merge. The decision will be implemented in 2020. A previous vote had failed in the Riazzino district, which is a remnant of hiking pasture farming in the Magadino plain, but politically belongs to Lavertezzo.
population
Population development | ||||||||||||
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year | 1795 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | 2005 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018 |
Residents | 269 | 294 | 196 | 73 | 22nd | 17th | 18th | 12 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 12 |
Corippo is the smallest municipality in Switzerland with only 12 permanent residents (as of July 2018). 7 men and 5 women live in the community, one resident was not a Swiss citizen. Nonetheless, the mini-community stuck to its independence that it gained in 1822.
traffic
Corippo is accessed by a narrow side street that leads across the Verzasca just before the northern end of Lago di Vogorno. This branches off between Vogorno and Lavertezzo from the street called Via Valle Verzasca , which opens up the Verzasca valley to Sonogno . The Locarno Airport is about 30 minutes drive away little east of Locarno in Magadino level .
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 Santa Maria del Carmine
- Piazza del Mercato
- Prayer Chapel della Crosetta
- Oratory Madonna delle Grazie in the district of Novei
Culture
- Fondazione Corippo
gallery
literature
- Thomas Amsler, Dieter Herrmann, Knut Lohrer, Ulfert Weber and others: Corippo building survey at the TH Stuttgart 1959, Krämer Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7828-1484-3 ; same: Corippo: Young Swiss and Germans draw, photograph and describe the old mountain village Corippo in Ticino. Koch, Stuttgart 1959
- Piero Bianconi : Corippo. In: I dipinti murali della Verzasca. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1934, p. 37.
- Pier Giorgio Gerosa: Un microterritorio alpino - Corippo dal Duecento all'Ottocento. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 1992.
- Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Bellinzona 2007, pp. 229–230.
- Giuseppe Mondada: Corippo. In: Catalogo delle pitture murali fino alla metà dell'Ottocento. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1934, pp. 86-87.
- Daniela Pauli Falconi: Corippo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 18, 2004 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
- Elfi Rüsch: Distretto di Locarno IV. Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 2013, pp. 42–51.
- Celestino Trezzini : Corippo. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Cavadini_Daegerlen. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1924, p. 624 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Corippo on the ETHorama platform
- Corippo municipality data
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Corippo
- Federal inventory ISOS: Corippo (PDF; 1.1 MB)
- Corippo on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
- ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Corippo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 5, 2004 .
- ↑ The smallest Swiss community becomes a hotel . In: SWI swissinfo.ch . ( swissinfo.ch [accessed on August 9, 2017]).
- ↑ Johannes Ritter: Abandoned on the slope. New tourist concept for the smallest municipality in Switzerland. FAZ, May 30, 2018, accessed June 5, 2018 .
- ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Corippo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 5, 2004 .
- ^ Helmut Stalder: Hocus pocus in the ghost village | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed on July 13, 2018]).
- ↑ Corippo (Distretto di Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland) - population statistics, graphics, map, location, weather and web information. Retrieved July 13, 2018 .
- ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
- ^ Church of Santa Maria del Carmine on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
- ↑ Piazza del mercato at ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
- ^ A b Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Bellinzona 2007, pp. 229–230
- ↑ Fondazione Corippo (Italian) on fondazionecorippo.ch/fondazione/ (accessed on: January 5, 2018.)
- ↑ Thomas Amsler and others: Corippo: Young Swiss and Germans draw, photograph and describe the old mountain village of Corippo in Ticino.