Grono

Grono, 1981-2010
Climate diagram
	Temperature in ° C , precipitation in mm
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Grono

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	canton of Grisons Graubünden (GR)
Region :	Moesa
BFS no. :	3832i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	6537 Grono 6538 Verdabbio 6556 Leggia
Coordinates :	731 745 / 123163 coordinates: 46 ° 14 '49 " N , 9 ° 8' 49" O ; CH1903: 731,745 / 12316346,247 9,147 336
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
Location of the municipality
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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

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1964

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

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Grono, 1981-2010

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	5.4	7.9	13.3	16.6	20.5	24.4	26.9	26.1	21.6	16.4	10.1	5.9	O	16.3
Min. Temperature (° C)	−2.8	−1.7	1.7	4.8	8.9	12.4	14.6	14.4	11.0	6.9	1.6	−2.2	O	5.8
Temperature (° C)	0.4	2.2	6.7	10.1	14.3	17.7	20.1	19.4	15.3	10.7	5.2	1.1	O	10.3

Precipitation ( mm )	62	46	73	130	172	163	158	168	171	129	127	76	Σ	1,475

Rainy days ( d )	5.4	4.7	6.0	9.4	13.2	10.9	9.8	10.5	8.4	8.6	7.8	6.4	Σ	101.1

Humidity ( % )	67	62	57	62	70	70	69	71	75	79	72	69	O	68.6

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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
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.