Gerra (Gambarogno)
Gerra (Gambarogno) | ||
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State : | Switzerland | |
Canton : | Ticino (TI) | |
District : | Locarno district | |
Circle : | Gambarogno district | |
Municipality : | Gambarogno | |
Postal code : | 6576 | |
Coordinates : | 704 097 / 108849 | |
Height : | 198 m above sea level M. | |
Area : | 3.1 km² | |
Residents: | 303 (December 31, 2008) | |
Population density : | 98 inhabitants per km² | |
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Gerra (Gambarogno) , in the Lombard local dialect (a la) Zèra [alaˈdʑɛra] , is a district of the municipality Gambarogno in the district of the same name , district Locarno , in the Swiss canton of Ticino . It formed an independent political community until April 24, 2010 .
geography
The village is located on the eastern bank of the Langensee , on the Cadenazzo – Luino railway line of the Swiss Federal Railways . It consists of the groups Riva and Scimiana on the lake shore (almost 200 m above sea level) and Ronco (290 m above sea level) and Casenzano (335 m above sea level) on the slope above. The Monti di Gerra are located at around 800 meters.
history
In the 16th century the localities of Ronco de Martignoni, Ronco di Sopra and Scimiana merged to form one municipality. In 1744 the parish church, consecrated to Saints Rochus and Saint Sebastian, was built.
On November 25, 2007, the merger of the municipalities on the south bank of the Langensee to the new municipality of Gambarogno was approved by the voters of the municipalities: Caviano , Contone , Gerra (Gambarogno), Indemini , Magadino , Piazzogna , Sant'Abbondio and Vira (Gambarogno) . Only San Nazzaro was mostly against it. An appeal was lodged with the Federal Supreme Court against the decision of the Ticino Grand Council to carry out the merger as planned . After the complaint was rejected, the merger took effect on April 25, 2010.
population
Population development | ||||||
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year | 1801 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | 2008 |
Residents | 405 | 651 | 451 | 330 | 254 | 303 |
coat of arms
- Red with a golden (yellow) shield head , inside a red-tongued and armored black eagle. Below is a gold crossbow
It is a takeover of the coat of arms of the Balestra family in honor of Serafino Balestra (1831–1886).
The head of the shield is called capo dell'imperio in Italian heraldry and marked the partisans of the emperor ( Waiblinger , i.e. Staufer ) in contrast to the supporters of the papal party (Welfen), whose party mark was the capo d'Angio ( Anjou ).
Attractions
- Parish Church of Santi Rocco and Sebastiano
- Oratory San Bernardino (or del Crocifisso) in the district of Ronco with frescoes by the painter Antonio da Tradate (1485)
- Oratory Madonna del Rosario
- House with fresco Mater lactans
- Residential house with fresco Madonna del Rosario
- prehistoric cup stones
Personalities
- Antonio Balestra (* around 1600 in Gerra Gambarogno; † after 1634 ibid), architect
- Giovanni Galli (born November 27, 1853 in Gerra (Gambarogno), † May 24, 1920 in Lugano ), engineer, president of the Ticino section of the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects (SIA)
- Dino Balestra (born November 21, 1947 in Gerra Gambarogno), former director of SRG SSR Lugano
- Ester Monaco (* 1973 in Gerra Gambarogno), master farmer, entrepreneur
literature
- Virgilio Gilardoni : I monumenti d'arte e di storia del Canton Ticino, volume III: L'alto Verbano II. I circoli del Gambarogno e della Navegna. (= The art monuments of Switzerland. Volume 73). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History SKG. Bern 1983, ISBN 3-7643-1500-8 , pp. 28-36.
- Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 157.
- Graziano Tarilli: Gerra Gambarogno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed February 4, 2020 .
- Celestino Trezzini : Gerra Gambarogno. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 3: Galmiton - Giovanni. Attinger, Neuenburg 1926, pp. 490, 491 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Gambarogno
- Data from the municipality of Gambarogno
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Gambarogno (Italian)
- Gerra Gambarogno: Inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
- Gerra Gambarogno on de.lagomaggiore.net, accessed November 25, 2015
- Catalogo ASTI, Gerra (Gambarogno) at www3.ti.ch/DECS/dcsu/ac/asti/cff/ (accessed December 11, 2017)
- Gerra Gambarogno on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 384.
- ^ Graziano Tarilli: Gerra Gambarogno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed February 4, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 157.
- ↑ Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume I, p. 546 ( digitized version , accessed on May 31, 2017).
- ^ Lara Calderari: Giovanni Galli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 24, 2005 , accessed February 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Dino Balestra ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on comunitaitalofona.org
- ^ Dino Balestra on theaterwissenschaft.ch
- ^ Ester Monaco on Landwirtschaft.ch