Rimella

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Rimella
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Rimella (Italy)
Rimella
Country Italy
region Piedmont
province Vercelli  (VC)
Coordinates 45 ° 54 ′  N , 8 ° 11 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  E
height 1182  m slm
surface 29 km²
Residents 132 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 5 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 13020
prefix 0163
ISTAT number 002113
Popular name Rimellesi
Patron saint San Michele
panorama
San Gottardo district

Rimella ( Walser German Remmalju, Piedmontese Rimela ) is a Walser municipality with 132 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Italian province of Vercelli (VC), Piedmont region .

geography

The municipal area includes the basins of the Landwasser and the Enderwasser and has no actual town center, but comprises over a dozen hamlets.

The districts are Chiesa (Walser German zer Chilchu ), Grondo (Grund), Pianello (en d Aggu), Prati (en Matte), Riva (Riwu), Roncaccio Inferiore (en du Nidru), Roncaccio Superiore (en dun Obru), Sant 'Anna (Tossu, zum Trog, Erörtru), Sant'Antonio (zum Grazianu), San Gottardo (ä Runt), Sella (Ŝchattal), Villa Inferiore (Niderdörf) and Villa Superiore (Oberdörf) .

The neighboring municipalities are Bannio Anzino , Calasca-Castiglione , Cravagliana , Fobello and Valstrona .

The municipality covers an area of ​​28 km² .

History and language

The then Rimella and Rotunda Alps were leased in 1255 by three men from the Swiss Wallis , namely Johannes from Visperterminen , Ancelmus son of Johannis de monte and Guillelmus from Saas-Balen from the chapter of San Giulio d'Orta. Just over a year later, these first three tenants were joined by nine other heads of families, most of whom came from Valais. In the 1970s, Rimella was therefore an exclusively Walser-speaking community, although the administrative, school and church language had long been Italian.

Due to its weak economic structure, the mountain farming community of Rimella is now acutely threatened by depopulation (1631: 964 inhabitants; 1831: 1381 inhabitants; 1900: 1232 inhabitants; 1943: 905 inhabitants; 1971: 320 inhabitants; 2004: 142 inhabitants).

literature

  • Marco Bauen : Mixed language expression in Rimella (Valsesia, Piemont). On the syntax of a South Walser dialect in the field of tension between the Italian national and cultural language. Bern and Stuttgart 1978.
  • Maria Concetta Di Paolo: Il tittschu di Rimella. L'evoluzione di un dialetto alemannico in Italia (= Alemannica. Studi linguistici, filologici e dialettologici. Volume 8). Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria 2018 (also dissertation University of Zurich 2017).
  • Karin Heller, Luis Thomas Prader and Christian Prezzi (eds.): Lebendige Sprachinseln. 2nd edition, Bozen 2006. Online to Rimella.
  • Paolo Sibilla: Una comunità Walser delle Alpi. Strutture tradizionali e processi culturali. Florence 1980.
  • Centro Studi Walser (ed.): Ts Remmaljertittschu. Vocabolario Italiano - Tittschu. Turin 1995. Vocabolario Tittschu - Italiano. Borgosesia 2005.
  • Centro Studi Walser (Ed.): Storia di Rimella in Valsesia. Ravenna 2004.
  • Silke La Rose: Walser law ennetbirgen - A contribution to the origin and course conditions of the Walser hike - Part II: Rimella and Alagna. In: Wir Walser 1 (2006) 7-17.
  • Atlante Toponomastico del Piemonte Montano No. 31: Rimella Ed. By the Università degli Studi di Torino and the Piedmont region, Turin 2007 [field name collection, declaration and map].
  • Julius Maximilian Schottky : The valley of Rimella and its German inhabitants. In: The Abroad - A daily newspaper for customers of the intellectual and moral life of the peoples, April 1st and 2nd, 1836 ( digitized in the Google book search). Again under the title Come un visitatore tedesco nell'anno 1834 descriveva la valle di Rimella in Italian and in German in: Remmalju 1998, pp. 10-15 (only of historical interest).

Movie

In the documentation " Peak - Above all peaks " from 2011, some of Rimella's residents and their living conditions are described.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Silke La Rose: Walser law ennetbirgen - A contribution to the origin and course conditions of the Walser hike - Part II: Rimella and Alagna. In: Wir Walser 1 (2006) 7-17.
  3. ↑ a b Marco Bauen: Mixed-language dialect expression in Rimella (Valsesia, Piemont). On the syntax of a South Walser dialect in the field of tension between the Italian national and cultural language, Bern and Stuttgart 1978.
  4. ↑ Peak - Above all peaks on cinefacts.de, accessed on February 3, 2015.

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