Dongio

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Dongio
Dongio coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Blenio districtw
Circle : Acquarossa district
Municipality : Acquarossai2
Postal code : 6715
former BFS no. : 5048
Coordinates : 716 501  /  144 172 coordinates: 46 ° 26 '20 "  N , 8 ° 57' 17"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred sixteen thousand five hundred and one  /  144 172
Height : 478  m above sea level M.
Area : 12.85  km²
Residents: 423 (2000)
Population density : 33 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.acquarossa.ch
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Dongio (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on April 4, 2004
Oratory of Santa Maria Nascente
Casa dei Pagani

Dongio is a village and a former municipality in the Acquarossa district , in the Blenio district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland . In 2004 the municipality merged with the neighboring municipalities of Castro , Corzoneso , Largario , Leontica , Lottigna , Marolta , Ponto Valentino and Prugiasco to form the new municipality of Acquarossa .

geography

Dongio lies in the middle of the Blenio Valley in a valley along the Brenno River . The place runs as a street village on the cantonal road and forms a historical settlement center around this and the “Piazza San Domenico”. To the north, the valley floor ends, following the piazza, at pedestrian and car bridges over the Brenno. To the southeast of the settlement core, the place extends for around one kilometer in loose development along the road. The two fractions Marogno and Motto are on the road, deeper in the valley floor. At Marogno a cable car runs to the fourth local fraction, Stabbio . The place, which is not inhabited all year round, is 1162 meters above sea level.

The municipality of Acquarossa in the area of ​​Dongio borders clockwise on the districts of Corzoneso in the west and Lottigna and Torre in the north. To the east and south, Dongio borders on the villages of Malvaglia and Ludiano, which are part of the Serravalle municipality .

The landscape around Dongio is characterized in the west by the gently rising massif of Pizzo Erra , which reaches 2,417 meters above sea level and whose chain rises to the north-west to the 2,586 meter high Pizzo Molare . An eastern branch of this mountain optically closes the valley from the north. The emblematic sosto at Olivone is only visible at Acquarossa. In the north-east the terrain rises rapidly and with the Cima di Gana Bianca reaches a height of 2843 meters. To the southeast, the view opens up to Pizzo Muncréch at 2251 meters in the southern Blenio valley.

history

Dongio is mentioned in the sources in 1188 as Deuci , 1205 as Doxo and 1270 as Deucio . Around 1200, the village was one of the six oldest vicinies in the Bleno Valley and one of six administrative and control circles called rodarie ; it belonged to the fagia de subtus . The patriciate of Dongio ( local civil parish ) traditionally has the right to graze ( diritto d'erba ) together with Leontica and Corzoneso . From this it can be concluded that these places used to belong to the vicinanza Dongio. There were also communal summer pastures on the Lukmanier, in Val Camadra, Nara and in the 19th century even in Medels , Vrin and Vals in the neighboring canton of Graubünden .

After the valley population had succeeded in legally and militarily breaking away from the rule of northern Italian aristocratic families, the Blenio Valley and thus also the population of Dongio were bound to the protective power of Uri from 1495 with an oath of allegiance and were subject to the jointly exercised from 1503 to 1798 Rule of the cantons Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden . On June 26, 1758, a landslide destroyed the houses of 54 families, 120 stables and the parish church. The catastrophe killed 34 residents. The subsequent reconstruction, a little further north, had the goal of developing Dongio into the production and service center of the Blenio Valley, which was partially successful. For a long time, Dongio had the only pharmacy in the valley.

During the Second Coalition War , the 106th Brigade of the French Revolutionary Army was stationed in Dongio from October 27, 1798 to January 10, 1799 . In contrast to the population of Leventina , which rose on May 1, 1799, the people of the Blenio Valley did not offer any resistance to the occupation, but on the contrary, in many cases, were willing or compelled to join the later campaigns of the Napoleonic army. A legacy of this period are the traditional Milizie storiche Bleniesi in the villages of Aquila , Ponto Valentino and Leontica . On September 21, 1799, Dongio was occupied by a detachment of Russian-Austrian troops from General Alexander W. Suvorov's Rosenberg division. After requisitions, it immediately moved further north to advance via the Lukmanier and Oberalp passes to battle the French troops at the Teufelsbrücke .

As part of the upheavals that affected all of Switzerland after the French Revolution , Dongio came briefly under the administration of the canton of Bellinzona in the Helvetic Republic and is now part of the canton of Ticino, which was newly founded in 1803. In 1801, the Helvetic Republic gave the architect Francesco Meschini (1762-1840) bridges - and road inspector for the cantons of Lugano and Bellinzona, commissioned the planning of the Strada del Satro between Dongio and the spa town of Acquarossa. The 1.6 km long two-lane road east of the Brenno, built in 1819, made it possible to postpone the reconstruction of two destroyed bridges. It was not until 1891 that the road returned to the west side of the Brenno, where it is still today. Between 1841 and 1863, Dongio was the capital of the Malvaglia district . This was intended to punish the municipality of Malvaglia for their disloyal behavior in a failed anti-liberal coup in the summer of 1841.

Like all villages in the Blenio Valley, Dongio has been shaped by emigration since the beginning of modern times, which initially led mainly to Italy and later to overseas (USA, Australia). At the same time, seasonal emigration to the urban centers of Europe developed, namely to large English, French and Belgian cities. The most important employment of these predominantly male emigrants was the hotel and catering trade and the trade in self-produced confectionery. This emigration was closely linked to the company of the restaurateur and ice cream producer Carlo Gatti (1817–1878), who came from Dongio . The naturalized British citizen and liberal Ticino parliamentarian ran numerous well-established restaurants in England and founded a real Ticino colony in London for their operation . As the only village in the Blenio Valley, Dongio also attracted a significant number of immigrants: in 1907, 170 Italians (96 women, 74 men) lived in the village, all of whom were employed in the nearby chocolate factory of Chocolat Cima Norma SA in Dangio-Torre . The majority of these guest workers came from the northern Italian border communities of Laveno , Schignano and Monfurmo. From 1945 to 1988 there was a shirt factory owned by the Fehlmann brothers in Dongio, and from 1950 the watch component factories Buzzi SA and Blenio Watch SA at times. Today, wood and metal construction companies have established themselves in the small industrial zone.

traffic

As a street village, Dongio is located directly on the main road through the Blenio Valley, which is connected to the south of the A2 motorway at Biasca . To the north it is possible to drive on the Lukmanier Pass , for which the road and climatic conditions must be taken into account. The hourly bus number 131 of Autolinee Bleniesi SA ensures basic services for the village population with public transport services.

The Circuito Dongio-Motto , a hiking trail specially designed for wheelchair users, is located in the flat valley between Dongio and Motto .

population

Population development
year 1808 1850 1860 1870 1880 1888 1900 1910 1920 1930 1941 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Residents 391 495 402 520 500 570 488 563 491 482 402 438 428 413 412 440 423

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 Santi Luca e Fiorenzo , mentioned in 1205, the current building was built between 1760 and 1767
  • Church of Santa Maria Nascente in the Motto district (14th century) with paintings by the painter Luigi Reali and frescoes by Bernardino Serodine
  • In the district of Motto di Dongio: Church of San Pietro from 1293 with frescoes from the 13th century
  • Above the village of Dongio, in the districts of Boscone, are the remains of a Casa dei Pagani (heather house) from the 9th-11th centuries. Century.
Gran Prix Giro Media Blenio

Culture

  • Fondazione Voce di Blenio , editor of the monthly newspaper Voce di Blenio and the book series Impronte bleniesi

Sports

  • Football Club Dongio , founded in 1944
  • Blenio Calcio football club
  • Gran Prix Giro Media Blenio , popular and top-class running event

Personalities

  • Gatti family
    • Carlo Giuseppe Nazaro Gatti (1817–1878), businessman and politician
    • Agostino Gatti (* 1841 in Dongio; † January 14, 1897 in London ), restaurant owner and theater entrepreneur
  • Giovan Battista Martinoli (born July 10, 1821 in Marolta , † May 16, 1889 in Dongio), clergyman, vicar general of the Diocese of Lugano, journalist
  • Sebastiano Martinoli (born February 7, 1872 in Dongio, † February 21, 1938 in Lucerne ), politician, lawyer
  • Ubaldo Monico (1912–1983), painter, xylograph, draftsman, engraver
  • Carla Vicari-De Righetti (born November 4, 1913 in Dongio, † December 4, 2009 in Lugano ), high school teacher, journalist, writer
  • Anna Maria Corazza Bildt (* 1963), politician, entrepreneur and former diplomat
  • Valerio Lazzeri (* 1963), Bishop of the Diocese of Lugano .

literature

  • Piero Bianconi : Arte in Blenio. Guida della valle. SA Grassi, Bellinzona / Lugano 1944; same: Dongio. In: Inventario delle cose d'arte e d'antichità. Volume I: Le tre valli superiori. Grassi, Bellinzona 1948. P. 71 (Motto), 72, 75.
  • Virgilio Gilardoni : Dongio. In: Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande, Bellinzona 1967. pp. 38, 40, 299, 324-327, 463, 493, 494.
  • Sonia Fiorini: Dongio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 9, 2017 , accessed February 10, 2020 .
  • Simona Martinoli u. a: Dongio. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Society for Swiss Art History . Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007. pp. 81, 84, 85, 89, 90, 92, 103.
  • Gianni Mazzucchelli: Il Miqweh di Dongio. Edizioni Pietra e Storia, 2006.
  • Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, pp. 95-96, (motto) 232.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Dongio. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 2, Daehler - Eglolf. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1924, p. 736 ( digitized version ).
  • Edoardo Villata: Luigi Reali nel Canton Ticino. Un'autorecensione. In: Arte & Storia , a. 8, n.39, Edizioni Ticino Management, Lugano 2008.

Web links

Commons : Dongio  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maps and geodata online. Federal Office for Topography swisstopo, Wabern near Bern, accessed on June 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Maps and geodata online. Federal Office for Topography swisstopo, Wabern near Bern, accessed on July 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Celestino Trezzini, in: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz : Dongio . Ed .: Heinrich Türler. 2 (Basel - Egnach). Attinger Verlag, Neuchâtel 1924, p. 736 .
  4. ^ A b c Marco Marcacci, Fabrizio Viscontini: La Valle di Blenio e la sua Ferrovia - L'ingresso nella modernità . Salvioni arti grafiche, Bellinzona 2011, ISBN 978-88-7967-283-2 , p. 43, 49, 55, 137 .
  5. ↑ Luca Solari: Blenio: una valle a contronto . Salvioni arti grafiche, Bellinzona 1998, ISBN 88-7967-023-9 , p. 50-57 .
  6. ↑ a b Hannes Maurer: Ticino valleys Ticino worlds - history and stories . Verlag NZZ, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85823-973-9 , p. 132 .
  7. ↑ Stefano Bolla, quoted from Abbé Cognet (Ernouf, Paris 1881): Descrizioni della Valle di Blenio tra Settecento e Ottocento . Ed .: Armando Dadò. Impronte bleniesi 1. Fondazione Voce di Blenio, Dongio (Acquarossa) 2010, ISBN 978-88-8281-297-3 , p. 79, 82 .
  8. ↑ Militia storiche Bleniesi. Bellinzonese e Alto Ticino Turismo, accessed August 6, 2018 (Italian).
  9. ↑ Christian Schütt, et al. (Ed.): Chronicle of Switzerland . Bookplate Verlag / Chronik Verlag, Zurich and Dortmund 1987, ISBN 3-611-00031-0 , p. 324 .
  10. ^ Sonia Fiorini: Dongio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 9, 2017 , accessed February 10, 2020 .
  11. ^ Lara Calderari: Francesco Meschini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 9, 2008 , accessed February 10, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Patrizia Pusterla Cambin: Sentieri Storici della Valle di Blenio . Bellinzonese e Alto Ticino Turismo, Bellinzona, S. 11 f .
  13. ^ Felicity Kinross: Coffee and Ices - The story of Carlo Gatti in London . Lavenham Press, 1991, ISBN 0-9517745-0-6 , pp. (Monograph, mainly: Appendix, pp. 56-62) .
  14. ↑ Marco Marcacci, Fabrizio Viscontini: La Valle di Blenio e la sua Ferrovia - L'ingresso nella modernità . Salvioni arti grafiche, Bellinzona 2011, ISBN 978-88-7967-283-2 , p. 38 .
  15. ↑ Autolinee Bleniesi SA - Trasporto pubblico. Retrieved August 6, 2018 (Italian).
  16. ^ Circuito Dongio motto. Retrieved August 6, 2018 (Italian).
  17. ^ Sonia Fiorini: Dongio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 9, 2017 , accessed February 10, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Luca Solari: Blenio: una valle a confronto . Salvioni arti grafiche, Bellinzona 1998, ISBN 88-7967-023-9 , p. 174 .
  19. ^ Sonia Fiorini: Dongio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 9, 2017 , accessed February 10, 2020 .
  20. ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
  21. ^ A b Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 89–91.
  22. ↑ Adolfo Caldelari: Arte e storia nel Ticino . Ente Ticinese per il turismo, Bellinzona 1975, p. 37 .
  23. ↑ Luigi Reali. In: Sikart , accessed January 8, 2016.
  24. ↑ Casa dei Pagani
  25. ^ Voce di Blenio. 2018, accessed June 21, 2018 (Italian).
  26. ↑ Football Club Dongio in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 5, 2016.)
  27. ^ Football Club Dongio
  28. ↑ Blenio Calcio ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mobile.football.ch
  29. ↑ Giro Media Blenio. Retrieved June 13, 2018 (it / de).
  30. ^ Sonia Fiorini: Agostino Gatti. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 5, 2007 , accessed February 10, 2020 .
  31. ↑ Nathalie Tami: Giovan Battista Martinoli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 28, 2008 , accessed February 10, 2020 .
  32. ↑ Nathalie Tami: Sebastiano Martinoli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 5, 2007 , accessed February 10, 2020 .
  33. ^ Carla Vicari-De Righetti (Italian) on archividonneticino.ch (accessed on October 22, 2016).