Gresso

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Locarno district

Circle :

Onsernone County

Municipality :

Onsernone

Postal code :

6611

former BFS no. :

5109

Coordinates :

690 820 / 120000 coordinates: 46 ° 13 '31 " N , 8 ° 36' 57" O ; CH1903: six hundred and ninety thousand eight hundred twenty / 120000

Height :

996 m above sea level M.

Area :

11.1 km²

Residents:

41 (April 9, 2016)

Population density :

4 inhabitants per km²

Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship )

0.0% (2,011)

Website:

www.onsernone.swiss

Gresso

map

Parish on April 9, 2016 before the merger

Village center

Houses with wooden balconies

Alla Ca 'cable car

Until April 9, 2016, Gresso was a political municipality in the Onsernone district in the Locarno district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland . It contains the Monte Maiensäss at 1340 to 1410 m above sea level. M. .

geography

Gresso is 999 m above sea level. M. at the southwest foot of the Pizzo Pelose; 23.5 km northwest of Locarno train station in the Valle di Vergeletto , a northern side valley of the Onsernone valley and consists of the village of Gresso and the exclave "Alla Ca '" west of the village.

history

First mentioned in 1266 as Agressio . In 1898 graves from the 1st – 2nd centuries were found there. Century AD with clay dishes and coins from Roman times . The village belonged to the vicinia Onsernone and earlier to the parish Russo TI and the municipality Vergeletto. The community was formed in 1882 when it split off from Vergeletto .

Community merger

On April 10, 2016, Gresso merged with the former municipalities of Isorno , Vergeletto and Mosogno to form the municipality of Onsernone .

population

Population development
year	1888	1900	1950	1970	2000	2014	2016
Residents	290	278	139	68	35	41	41

Attractions

The village image is classified in the inventory of protected sites in Switzerland (ISOS) as a site of national importance in Switzerland.

Oratory Sant'Orsola built in 1703 with fresco in 1948
Holiday home (1969/1971), Architects: Franco Moro , Paolo Moro
Various farmhouses with wooden balconies (18th century)

Personalities

Evaristo Garbani-Nerini (born October 26, 1867 in Russo TI (today Onsernone municipality ), † February 16, 1944 in Lugano ), lawyer, politician
Carlo Speziali (born December 5, 1921 in Gresso; † March 5, 1998 in Locarno ), secondary school teacher, politician
Harley Garbani (born September 19, 1922 in Los Angeles , † April 24, 2011 in Hemet ), fossil hunter in California .
Carla Speziali (* 23rd 1961), politician

literature

Guglielmo Buetti: Note Storiche Religiose delle Chiese e Parrocchie della Pieve di Locarno, (1902), e della Verzasca, Gambarogno, Valle Maggia e Ascona (1906). 2nd edition, Pedrazzini Edizioni, Locarno 1969.
Vasco Gamboni: Gresso. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
Maren Heyne with 21 texts by Giovanni Orelli : Gresso 999 m / s .: a mountain village in transition. Gümligen; Bonn; Vienna: Zytglogge 1991.
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. 228.
Celestino Trezzini : Gresso. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 3, Grassi - Güttingen_. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1926, p. 737 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Gresso - 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)
Data from the municipality of Gresso
Federal inventory ISOS: Gresso, p. 6. (PDF; 795 kB)
Catalogo ASTI, Gresso at www3.ti.ch/DECS/dcsu/ac/asti/cff/ (accessed December 10, 2017)
Gresso on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

↑ Monte on elexikon.ch
^ Federal inventory ISOS: Gresso (PDF; 795 kB)
↑ Vasco Gamboni: Gresso. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 30, 2016 .
↑ Vasco Gamboni: Gresso. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2017 , accessed February 4, 2020 .
↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
^ ^A ^b ^c Simona Martinoli and others: 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. 228.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Elfi Rüsch: Distretto di Locarno IV. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-084-3 , pp. 397-401.
↑ Andrea Ghiringhelli: Garbani-Nerini, Evaristo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 2, 2009 .
^ Francesca Mariani Arcobello: Speziali, Carlo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 13, 2012 .
↑ Harley Garbani died on articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/24/local (accessed April 11, 2017).

[1] Monte on elexikon.ch

[2] Federal inventory ISOS: Gresso (PDF; 795 kB)

[3] Vasco Gamboni: Gresso. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 30, 2016 .

[4] Vasco Gamboni: Gresso. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 18, 2017 , accessed February 4, 2020 .

[5] List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.

[Martinoli-6] A ^b ^c Simona Martinoli and others: 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. 228.

[Rüsch-7] Elfi Rüsch: Distretto di Locarno IV. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-084-3 , pp. 397-401.

[8] Andrea Ghiringhelli: Garbani-Nerini, Evaristo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 2, 2009 .

[9] Francesca Mariani Arcobello: Speziali, Carlo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 13, 2012 .

[10] Harley Garbani died on articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/24/local (accessed April 11, 2017).