Gerra (Verzasca)

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Locarno district

Circle :

Navegna district

Municipality :

Cugnasco-Gerra

Postal code :

6635

former BFS no. :

5138

Coordinates :

705 122 / 130556 coordinates: 46 ° 19 '5 " N , 8 ° 48' 13" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and five thousand one hundred and twenty-two / 130556

Height :

808 m above sea level M.

Area :

16.18 km²

Residents:

1297 (December 31, 2007)

Population density :

80 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.cugnasco-gerra.ch

map

Parish before the merger on April 19, 2008

Gerra (Verzasca) is a fraction of the political municipality Cugnasco-Gerra in the Navegna district in the Locarno district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland . Gerra (Verzasca) is located in the Valle Verzasca on the mountain river Verzasca and is surrounded by chestnut forests.

Merger with Cugnasco

The previously independent municipality was merged with Cugnasco on April 20, 2008 to form the new municipality of Cugnasco-Gerra . This connected the Gerra Piano exclave in the Magadino plain with the settlement area of Cugnasco. The vast majority of the population (around 1000 people) of the former municipality lived in the Gerra Piano exclave.

History of the merger project

In 2004/2005 a merger of Gerra Piano and Gerre di Sotto (part of the city of Locarno ) with Cugnasco to the municipality of Cugnasco-Gerre failed .

Local civil parish

Active local citizen families and their nicknames:

Besomi (el Scila); Bianchi (Corditt, Svampidri, Pressitt, Tomasoi); Brezzi (Garbitt); Breschini (Famii, Micola, Colitt); Comazzi; Firanza (Balitt); Foletta (Tunas, Calzitt, Cémm, Domerghitt, Foletoi, Latona, Grossi, Rossi, Marceuri, Scierri); Franchini (Spiata, Tiscia, Manéta); Frolli (Preveditt, Zipa, Zepitt, the Vérdora); Gnesa (Lavisg); Martinenghi; Massera (Doloroi, Masseroi, Masseritt, Valind, Fripitt, Jobitt, Storn); Mengoni; Mignola (Sbögia, Böta, Poiöö, Scigola, Paolitt); Molinari (Zallo, Zala, Rüscoi, Cencia); Pedrazzi (Ghira, Ghiritt, Ghiress, Madöna, Pedrascitt, Pedrascioi); Pescia; Scalmazzi (Tiröll, Cantonee); Tunesi (Tünesitt, Lüsirna, Girölom, Andria); Vosti (Vostoi, Vostitt, Bagiüla, Golarditt, Géremia, Fantis, Zepoi, Caradüü, Püresitt, Marchend, Bacoloi, Delfitt, Gütt).

population

Population development
year	1801	1870	1900	1950	2000	2007
Residents	304	186	413	451	1098	1297

Attractions

Parish Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
Biarini house
Forno dal Cioss
Forno dal Cortasch
Forno dala Fromighera
Various praying chapels
Shell stone or character stone in the district of Piagn di Mòtt (950 m above sea level)
Bronze ax found in a small cave in the Corona dei Morasci district (1168 m above sea level)

Personalities

Kathrin Rüegg (born March 7, 1930 in Arosa under the real name Doris Schmid; † June 12, 2011 in Gordola ), a Swiss author and television presenter on German SWR television

literature

Piero Bianconi : Gerra. In: I dipinti murali della Verzasca. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1934, p. 9.
Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni , Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, ISBN 978-88-8281-353-6 .
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 161, 232.
Giuseppe Mondada: Gerra. In: Catalogo delle pitture murali fino alla metà dell'Ottocento. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1934, p. 79.
Daniela Pauli Falconi: Gerra (Verzasca). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 29, 2016 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
Alfredo Poncini: Valle Verzasca. Oratorio o bottega di un artigiano? Di una presunta chiesa a Gerra Verzasca. In: Bollettino della Società Storica Locarnese. Tipografia Pedrazzini, Locarno 1999, pp. 31-46.
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. 94-101.
Dante Scolari: Valle Verzasca. Affreschi di Giovanni Antonio Vanoni a Gerra e di un anonimo del Seicento a Brione Verzasca. Ibidem, pp. 137-139.
Celestino Trezzini : Gerra-Verzasca. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 3, Galmiton - Giovanni. Attinger, Neuenburg 1926, p. 491 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Gerra Verzasca: Inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Gerra Verzasca on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Gerra (Verzasca). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 29, 2016 .
↑ ^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. 232.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Elfi Rüsch: Distretto di Locarno IV. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-084-3 , p. 94.
^ Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni , Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, p. 62.
↑ Franco Binda, Locarno 2013, pp. 231–233.
↑ Kathrin Rüegg on ticinarte.ch
↑ Kathrin Rüegg (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti (accessed on October 3, 2016).

[1] Daniela Pauli Falconi: Gerra (Verzasca). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 29, 2016 .

[Martinoli-2] ↑ ^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. 232.

[Rüsch-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Elfi Rüsch: Distretto di Locarno IV. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-084-3 , p. 94.

[4] Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni , Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, p. 62.

[5] Franco Binda, Locarno 2013, pp. 231–233.

[6] Kathrin Rüegg on ticinarte.ch

[7] Kathrin Rüegg (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti (accessed on October 3, 2016).