Indemini

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Locarno district

Circle :

Gambarogno district

Municipality :

Gambarogno

Postal code :

6571

Coordinates :

707 293 / 105725 coordinates: 46 ° 5 '40 " N , 8 ° 49' 34" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and seven thousand two hundred ninety-three / 105725

Height :

950 m above sea level M.

Area :

11.3 km²

Residents:

43 (December 31, 2008)

Population density :

4 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.gambarogno.ch

Indemini seen from Monte Tamaro .

map

Parish before the merger on March 24, 2010

Indemini

Alpe di Neggia

Alpe di Neggia Pass

Indemini , in the Alpine Lombard dialect Indemen [inˈdeːmən] , is a village in the Ticino municipality of Gambarogno . Until April 24, 2010, it formed an independent political municipality .

geography

Aerial photo (1954)

Indemini is, seen from Locarno , behind the Gambarogno at 950 m above sea level. M. in the otherwise Italian Val Veddasca . From Vira the road leads from 190 m up to Alpe di Neggia at 1395 m and then back down to the village, which is at 960 m . There are 37 hairpin bends and 254 normal bends to be negotiated. The valley river, the Giona , flows into Lake Maggiore near Maccagno .

history

The village is first mentioned in 1213 as Indempno and in 1260 as Indemine . Indemini was conquered by the confederates , as its location was strategically important as the first place on the other side of the St. Anna Pass. While the other villages of the Veddasca valley oriented towards Luino and Maccagno, Indemini oriented towards the Swiss Confederation. The pass was made accessible by soldiers in the Middle Ages, but only mobile in the 20th century.

On November 25, 2007, the merger of the nine municipalities on the south bank of Lake Maggiore was approved by eight municipalities: Caviano , Contone , Gerra , Indemini, Magadino , Piazzogna , Sant'Abbondio and Vira merge to form the municipality of Gambarogno. Only San Nazzaro spoke out against the consolidation of the municipalities. An appeal was lodged with the Federal Supreme Court against the decision of the Ticino Grand Council to carry out the merger as planned. After the complaint was rejected, the merger took effect on April 25, 2010.

coat of arms

Blazon : In Green on nine silver-red diagonal right gestückter thread over which a golden afternoon sun rises; below an ax crossed to the right and a heppe to the left in silver with golden handles.

population

Population development
year	1591	1683	1801	1850	1900	1950	1970	2000	2008
Residents	approx. 200	376	287	409	340	206	64	39	43

In the early 1980s, indemini's continued existence was threatened with continued emigration. Out-of-town Indeminesi were unwilling to return to their remote home community. Thanks to a certain amount of immigration from German-speaking Switzerland, the town now has a little over forty inhabitants again.

Today the village is half Italian and half German speaking (2002: 49% each German and Italian speaking).

economy

Indemini is connected to Vira-Gambarogno and San Nazzaro by a post bus line. Important branches of business are agriculture, catering and small businesses.

There are only a few jobs in urban areas. It is therefore proverbial that you have to create your own workplace if you want one.

Attractions

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

Parish Church of San Bartolome
Rectory (Bottega dell'artista) renovated (2002)
Oratory Madonna del Monte or Sant'Anna ( 1342 m , approx. 1.5 km northwest of the village)
House Casa du Pudastée with fresco Santa Pietà di Cannobio
Museo del Patriziato
Various rural houses
Various praying chapels
Drawing stone and bowl stone on the border of Biegno in the municipality of Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca ( 1160 m )

Personalities

Gianfranco Domenighetti (* 1942 in Indemini; † November 17, 2017 in Locarno ), economist, lecturer at the University of Geneva , the University of Lausanne and the Università della Svizzera italiana
Guido Domenighetti (born February 12, 1945 in Indemini), doctor, university professor, pulmonologist

literature

Virgilio Gilardoni : I monumenti d'arte e di storia del Canton Ticino, volume III: L'alto Verbano II. I circoli del Gambarogno e della Navegna. (= The art monuments of Switzerland. Volume 73). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History SKG. Bern 1983, ISBN 3-7643-1500-8 , pp. 37-48.
Peter Knecht: End stop Indemini: Report from a dropout. Bottega "al Böcc", Indemini 1987.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Indemini. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007.
Urbano Pedroni, Stefano Vassere (eds.): Repertorio toponomastico ticinese. I nomi di luogo dei comune del Cantone Ticino: Indemini. Volume 26. Edited by the State Archives of the Canton of Ticino. Bellinzona 2009.
Adolph Schalk: The Indemini story: new impulses at the end of the world. Arlecchino-Verlag, Indemini 1983.
Graziano Tarilli: Indemini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
Celestino Trezzini : Indemini. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 4: Hoescheller - Jestetten. Attinger, Neuchâtel 1927, p. 343 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Official website of the municipality of Gambarogno
Data from the municipality of Gambarogno
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Gambarogno (Italian)
Indemini: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Indemini: News (Italian) on indemini.ch (accessed on March 3, 2018.)
Federal inventory ISOS: Indemini (PDF; 1.4 MB)
Catalogo ASTI, Indemini at www3.ti.ch/DECS/dcsu/ac/asti/cff/ (accessed December 12, 2017).
Indemini on ticinotopten.ch
Indemini on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 460.
^ Graziano Tarilli: Indemini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 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 ^d ^e ^f 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. 155. 156.
↑ Patriziato di Indemini ( Memento from January 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
^ Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Locarno 2013, pp. 66–67.
↑ Gianfranco Domenighetti ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Italian) in search.usi.ch (accessed on April 29, 2016.)
↑ Gianfranco Domenighetti (Italian) on cdt.ch/ticino/cantone (accessed on November 18, 2017.)
↑ Guido Domenighetti ( Memento of November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on eoc.ch/Dettagli (accessed on April 29, 2016.)

[1] Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 460.

[2] Graziano Tarilli: Indemini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed February 4, 2020 .

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

[Martinoli-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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. 155. 156.

[5] Patriziato di Indemini ( Memento from January 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[6] Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Locarno 2013, pp. 66–67.

[7] Gianfranco Domenighetti ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Italian) in search.usi.ch (accessed on April 29, 2016.)

[8] Gianfranco Domenighetti (Italian) on cdt.ch/ticino/cantone (accessed on November 18, 2017.)

[9] Guido Domenighetti ( Memento of November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on eoc.ch/Dettagli (accessed on April 29, 2016.)