Crana

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Locarno district

Circle :

Onsernone County

Municipality :

Onsernone

Postal code :

6611

Coordinates :

690.26 thousand / 117820 coordinates: 46 ° 12 '21 " N , 8 ° 36' 29" O ; CH1903: 690260 / 117820

Height :

892 m above sea level M.

Residents:

49 (December 31, 1990)

Website:

www.onsernone.ch

Crana

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 1995

Crana was a municipality in the Onsernone district , in the Locarno district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .

geography

The village at 892 m above sea level. M., 22 km from Locarno on the road to Comologno and Spruga.

history

The village is mentioned as Grana in 1228 . During the Ancien Régime , the Squadra of Crana, which also included the territory of Vocaglia, Comologno and Spruga, was part of the old municipality of Onsernone. The modern political community emerged with the institutional changes of Napoleonic mediation (history) in 1803. The village is known for the large number of those entitled to homeland (over 5,000): In order to supplement the low income of the village, local citizenship (and thus the Swiss citizenship) for a modest fee.

Community merger

On January 1, 1995, Crana merged with Comologno and Russo to form Onsernone municipality .

population

Population development
year	1795	1808	1836	1850	1900	1950	1960	1990
Residents	134	138	182	185	303	134	87	49

Attractions

Parish church of Santi Pietro and Paolo built in 1676, renovated in 1886 and enlarged between 1900 and 1902
Ponte Oscuro between Russo and Crana under today's road bridge on the old mule mule track ( mulattieria ) over the Isorno river

Osteria Cacciatore

Personalities

Luigi Simona (1874–1968), doctor of theology, art historian, author

literature

Vasco Gamboni: Crana. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 8, 2005 , accessed January 8, 2020 .
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art HistoryGSK. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 226.
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. 371–376.
Celestino Trezzini : Crana. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Cavadini - Daegerlen. Attinger, Neuenburg 1924, p. 642 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Crana (Onsernone) - collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the municipality of Onsernone
Data from the municipality of Onsernone
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Onsernone (Italian)
Crana: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Catalogo ASTI, Crana at www3.ti.ch/DECS/dcsu/ac/asti/cff/ (accessed December 10, 2017).
Crana on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

^ Vasco Gamboni: Crana. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 20, 2005 .
^ ^A ^b 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 , p. 226.
^ ^A ^b Elfi Rüsch: Distretto di Locarno, IV. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History. Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-084-3 , pp. 371–377.

[1] Vasco Gamboni: Crana. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 20, 2005 .

[Martinoli-2] A ^b 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 , p. 226.

[Rüsch-3] A ^b Elfi Rüsch: Distretto di Locarno, IV. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History. Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-084-3 , pp. 371–377.