Grono
Grono | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Graubünden (GR) |
Region : | Moesa |
BFS no. : | 3832 |
Postal code : | 6537 Grono 6538 Verdabbio 6556 Leggia |
Coordinates : | 731 745 / 123163 |
Height : | 336 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 301–2693 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 37.12 km² |
Residents: | 1378 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 37 inhabitants per km² |
Mayor : | Samuele Censi |
Website: | www.grono.ch |
Entrance to Grono from the south |
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Location of the municipality | |
Grono is a municipality in the Moesa region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland .
On January 1, 2017 , the previously independent political communities Verdabbio , Leggia and Grono merged to form the new political municipality Grono.
geography
Grono is on the right side of the Moësa River . About 60% of the community area consists of forest and wood, 30% of unproductive area. Around 5% of the usable areas fall on the settlement as well as on agriculture, which mainly consists of viticulture.
Grono borders the municipalities of Roveredo , Buseno , Castaneda , Santa Maria in Calanca , Calanca , Lostallo and Cama . To the east, the municipalities of Gordona and Dosso del Liro border Italy towards Lake Como .
climate
On August 11, 2003, during the heat wave in Europe in 2003, the highest temperature in Switzerland since measurements began was recorded at 41.5 ° C. So Grono is the only place in Switzerland where temperatures of over 40 ° C have been officially measured (by the national weather service MeteoSwiss). The weather station Grono was then on a sunny slope at 328 m above sea level. M. in the lower layers of the misox . Today the station is on the valley floor at 324 m above sea level. M.
The annual mean temperature is 10.3 ° C, with the coldest monthly temperatures in January at 0.4 ° C and the warmest monthly mean temperatures in July at 20.1 ° C. On average, around 92 frost days and four ice days are to be expected here. There are an annual average of around 71 summer days , while an average of 10.9 hot days are recorded.
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Grono, 1981-2010
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history
One of the oldest houses is the five-story Torre Fiorenzana , which was very likely built before 1200. In 1219 de Grono with its church San Clemente was first mentioned, in 1395 the place was called de Agrono . Grono first belonged to the Vicariate and Squadra Roveredo, it also depended on the chapter of San Vittore and only became an independent parish in 1521. The Torre Fiorenzana belonged to the de Sacco family and was the scene of the murder of Alberto de Sacco in 1406. The Palazzo Togni or Ca 'Rossa, the red house, was built in 1721 and restored in 1977. Until 2004 it was the seat of the Moesana section of the Pro Grigioni Italiano and is now owned by the Museo moesano, the regional museum of the Misox.
population
Population development | ||||||||||
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year | 1773 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2017 |
Residents | 296 | 517 | 484 | 528 | 916 | 952 | 987 | 1016 | 1023 | 1373 |
The Italian-speaking share makes up 85.1%. The second most common language is German with 6.1%, followed by Serbo-Croatian with 2.2%. The proportion of foreigners is 25.1%.
economy
Almost half of the population works independently . Around half of the population works in the secondary and tertiary sectors. Until the early 1970s, Grono was home to one of the smallest breweries in Switzerland. The building of the Birreria Tognola is well preserved, today it houses the Graubündner Kantonalbank .
Attractions
- Saint Clemente Catholic parish church and ossuary
- Chapel of SS. Rocco e Sebastiano
- Torre Fiorenzana, a medieval residential tower from the 12th century
- In addition to numerous listed Roman Catholic churches, Grono also has a modern church building, the Evangelical Parish Center , which was built in 1996.
- Schoolhouse Grono, architect Raphael Zuber, collaboration with David Gianinazzi and Kosuke Yutani, built in 2011
- Ca 'Rossa
Personalities
- De Sacco family
- Giacomo de Sacco (* around 1480 in Grono; † after 1519), Podestà in Traona .
- Giovanni Pietro de Sacco (* around 1500 in Grono; † 1552 ibid), captain, vicar in Sondrio (1537–1539)
- Filippo de Sacco (* around 1640 in Grono; † after 1687 ibid), Lord Mayor of Piuro (1685–1687)
- Enrico de Sacco (* around 1740 in Grono; † after 1783 ibid), from Grono, governor in Maienfeld (1781–1783)
- The Tognola family opened a beer brewery in Grono in the 19th century
- Giacomo Tognola (* around 1560 in Grono; † after 1611 ibid), notary, governor in Maienfeld (1609–1611)
- Pietro Tognola (* around 1710 in Grono; † after 1759 there), Lord Mayor of Bormio (1757–1759)
- Pietro Luigi Vitale Tognola (* around 1730 in Grono; † after 1777 there), Lord Mayor of Bormio (1775–1777)
- Gaspare Tognola (* 1874 in Grono; † 1950 ibid), author
- Giorgio Tognola (* 1941 in Grono), secondary school teacher, local historian, author, lives in Bedano , president of the Fondazione Archivio a Marca
- Lulo (Giulio) Tognola (born September 6, 1947 in Grono), graphic artist, illustrator
- Baldassare Splendore (* around 1620 in Grono; † after 1657 ibid), Lord Mayor of Bormio (1655–1657)
- Giuseppe Filippo Nisoli (* around 1720 in Grono; † after 1767 there), Lord Mayor of Tirano (1765–1767).
- Aurelio Bianchi-Giovini (1799–1862), journalist
- Silvio Giovanoli (born August 5, 1902 in Chur; † March 2, 1981 ibid), from Soglio GR , honorary citizen of Grono, federal judge
Sports
- Gruppo Sportivo Grono
literature
- Bernhard Other: Guida d'Arte della Svizzera Italiana. Edizioni Trelingue, Porza-Lugano 1980.
- Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 505-506.
- Erwin Poeschel : The Art Monuments of the Canton of Graubünden, Volume VI: The Italian Graubünden valleys of Puschlav, Misox and Calanca. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 17). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1945, ISBN 978-3-906131-55-9 .
- Balser Puorger : Grono. In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland , Volume 3, Grassi - Güttingen. Attinger, Neuenburg 1921, p. 755 ( digitized version ).
- Cesare Santi: Grono. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 22, 2017. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
- Gaspare Tognola: Grono antico comune della Mesolcina. Tipografia Menghini, Poschiavo 1957.
- Various authors: Grono. In: Storia dei Grigioni , 3 volumes, Collana "Storia dei Grigioni", Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2000.
photos
Web links
- Grono on the ETHorama platform
- Official website of the municipality of Grono
- Federal inventory ISOS: Grono (PDF; 2.5 MB)
- Grono on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Records and extremes. In: meteoschweiz.admin.ch. meteoschweiz, accessed on July 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Climate table. In: meteoschweiz.admin.ch. meteoschweiz, accessed on April 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Cesare Santi: Grono. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 22nd June 2017 .
- ↑ Cesare Santi: Grono. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2017 .
- ^ Catholic parish church of Saint Clemente
- ↑ Chapel of SS. Rocco e Sebastiano
- ↑ Torre Fiorenzana
- ↑ Torre Fiorenzana
- ↑ Torre Fiorenzana on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
- ↑ Ca 'Rossa
- ↑ Giacomo de Sacco at e-periodica.ch/digbib (accessed on January 9, 2017).
- ↑ Giovanni Pietro de Sacco at e-periodica.ch/digbib (accessed on January 9, 2017).
- ↑ Filippo de Sacco on e-periodica.ch (accessed on January 9, 2017).
- ↑ Enrico de Sacco at e-periodica.ch/digbib (accessed on January 9, 2017).
- ↑ Cesare Santi: Tognola. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 25, 2012 .
- ↑ Giacomo Tognola at e-periodica.ch/digbib (accessed on January 9, 2017).
- ↑ Pietro Tognola on e-periodica.ch (accessed on January 9, 2017).
- ↑ Pietro Luigi Vitale Tognola on e-periodica.ch (accessed on January 9, 2017).
- ^ Giorgio Tognola: Miserere mei
- ↑ Lulo Tognola. In: Sikart
- ↑ Baldassare Splendore on e-periodica.ch (accessed on January 9, 2017).
- ↑ Giuseppe Filippo Nisoli on e-periodica.ch/digbib (accessed on January 9, 2017).
- ^ Adolf Collenberg: Silvio Giovanoli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 19, 2006 , accessed December 20, 2019 .
- ^ Gruppo Sportivo Grono