Lottigna

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Lottigna
Lottigna coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Blenio districtw
Circle : Acquarossa district
Municipality : Acquarossai2
Postal code : 6716
Coordinates : 715 576  /  147 565 coordinates: 46 ° 28 '10 "  N , 8 ° 56' 36"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred fifteen thousand five hundred seventy-six  /  one hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred sixty-five
Height : 678  m above sea level M.
Area : 6.55  km²
Residents: 79 ((2000))
Population density : 12 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.acquarossa.ch
View from the west

View from the west
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Parish before the merger on April 4, 2004
Parish Church of Santi Pietro e Paolo
Casa dei Landfogti
View of the Acquarossa faction in 1954
Mosè Bertoni (1910)

Lottigna was a municipality in the Acquarossa district , in the Blenio district of the Swiss canton of Ticino . Until 2004, the spa town of Acquarossa belonged to Lottigna . It merged in 2004 to form the new municipality of Acquarossa .

geography

Lottigna lies at 678 meters above sea level on the eastern bank of the Brenno river and at the foot of the Simano mountain . Neighboring villages are in the north Grumo and Torre . In the east the terrain is high alpine and uninhabited for around 18 km. The eastern slope has no alpine farms . In the south is the place Acquarossa with the eponymous health resort, consisting of the fractions Comprovasco (formerly Leontica ) and Stallaccia (formerly Corzoneso -Piano). To the west, the Brenno separates the village of Lottigna from Prugiasco , Castro and Ponto Valentino . There are bridges at All'Acqua and Acquarossa.

The former political municipality of Lottigna bordered clockwise from the north on the former municipalities of Torre, Dongio , Corzoneso, Leontica, Prugiasco, Castro and Ponto Valentino.

Due to its elevated location, Lottigna has a good view of the surrounding towns to the west. These are located at the foot of the semicircular to the 2195 meter high Punta di Larescia ( Cima di Gorda ) in the north and to the 2417 meter high Pizzo Erra in the south, the 2586 meter high Pizzo Molare . A side ridge of the Matro closes the view to the south. In the east rises the 2580 meter high Cima del Simano , which rises to the 2843 meter high Cima di Gana Bianca . In the north, the Cima di Pinadee with 2486 meters and the 2221 meter high Sosto near Olivone are also visible.

history

The village was first mentioned in 1201 under the name Lotingnia . In 1309 it was a vicinia that belonged to the fagia de medio or Fagia of Aquila . The Disentis Monastery owned a property called Monastero (German: monastery). After the valley population had succeeded in legally and militarily breaking away from the rule of noble families in northern Italy, they swore an oath of allegiance to the protective power Uri in 1495 . In 1502, the Federal Diet designated Lottigna as the residence of the bailiff of Blenio , who was appointed every two years by the three occupying powers Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden . The rule of the three original cantons , which was increasingly unpopular with the valley population , lasted in the Ancien Régime until 1798. As part of the upheavals that affected Switzerland as a whole after the French Revolution , Lottigna came under the administration of the canton of Bellinzona for a short time in the Helvetic Republic and is now part of the canton of Ticino, which was newly founded in 1803. The village Lottigna lost its status as the capital of the Blenio district to the Acquarossa fraction and then to Comprovasco ( Leontica ).

Lottigna, like the rest of the Blenio Valley, has been shaped by emigration since the beginning of the modern age, which initially led mainly to Italy and later to overseas. At the same time, seasonal emigration to the urban centers of Europe, namely to French, Belgian and English cities, developed. The most important line of business for these emigrants, who in some cases became prosperous, was the hotel and restaurant industry and the trade in self-made confectionery. For example, the family of Luigi Reggiori (1853–1924) ran a hotel in London .

On April 4, 2004, Lottigna merged with Castro , Corzoneso , Dongio , Largario , Leontica , Marolta , Ponto Valentino and Prugiasco to form the new municipality of Acquarossa .

population

Population development
year 1682 1808 1850 1870 1900 1950 1980 1990 2000
Residents 105 101 136 149 125 131 79 62 79

Attractions

  • Parish Church of Santi Pietro e Paolo
  • Rectory
  • Museo della Valle di Blenio : Museum of the Blenio Valley in the Casa dei Landfogti (also: Palazzo del Pretorio )
  • Villa Antognoli, built in 1913 according to plans by Elvidio Casserini, from 1933 owned by Giuseppe Pagani, owner of the Cima Norma chocolate factory .

Personalities

  • Bertoni family
    • Ambrogio Bertoni (born August 25, 1811 in Milan , † November 11, 1887 in Lottigna), priest, lawyer, liberal politician, advocate of the Lukmanier Pass road
    • Mosè Giacomo Bertoni (born June 15, 1857 in Lottigna, † September 19, 1929 in Foz do Iguaçu ( Brazil )), anarchist , botanist, founded the National Agricultural School in Asunción
    • Brenno Bertoni (1860–1945), politician and radical liberal publicist
    • Luigi Bertoni (born February 6, 1872 in Milan, † January 19, 1947 in Geneva , place of origin: Lottigna) anarchist, journalist and republican fighter in Spain
    • Arnoldo di Winkelried Bertoni (born December 28, 1878 in Lottigna, † 1973 in Asunción Paraguay ), son of Mosé Bertoni, naturalist, ornithologist.

literature

  • Piero Bianconi : Arte in Blenio. Guida della valle. SA Grassi & Co. Bellinzona-Lugano 1944; same (ed.): Lottigna. In: Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Le Tre Valli Superiori. Leventina, Blenio, Riviera. Grassi & Co., Bellinzona 1948, pp. 107, 113.
  • Sonia Fiorini: Lottigna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 .
  • Virgilio Gilardoni : Lottigna. In: Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 40, 43, 179, 388-390, 546.
  • Simona Martinoli and others: Lottigna. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 89, 93, 95.
  • Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, pp. 175–177.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Lottigna. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 4, Liebegg - Milan. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1927, p. 715 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maps and geodata online. Federal Office for Topography swisstopo, Wabern near Bern, accessed on August 16, 2018 .
  2. ^ Sonia Fiorini: Lottigna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 .
  3. ^ Sonia Fiorini: Blenio (district). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 8, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Luca Solari: Blenio: una valle a confronto . Salvioni arti grafiche, Bellinzona 1998, ISBN 88-7967-023-9 , p. 116 .
  5. ^ Sonia Fiorini: Lottigna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Luca Solari: Blenio: una valle a confronto . Salvioni arti grafiche, Bellinzona 1998, ISBN 88-7967-023-9 , p. 174 .
  7. ^ Sonia Fiorini: Lottigna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 .
  8. ^ A b c Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 93–95.
  9. ↑ Parish Church of Santi Pietro e Paolo (photo)
  10. ↑ Rectory (photo)
  11. ^ Museo di Blenio
  12. ↑ Blenio Valley Museum (photo)
  13. ↑ Luca Solari: Blenio: una valle a confronto . Salvioni arti grafiche, Bellinzona 1998, ISBN 88-7967-023-9 , p. 116 .
  14. ↑ Fabian Hodel: Jost Lussi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 4, 2006 , accessed May 13, 2020 .
  15. ^ Andrea Ghiringhelli: Ambrogio Bertoni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 3, 1999 , accessed February 9, 2020 .
  16. ^ Danilo Baratti: Mosè Giacomo Bertoni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 18, 2004 , accessed February 9, 2020 .
  17. ^ Mosè Giacomo Bertoni (Italian) on ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti
  18. ^ Baratti, Bertoni, Candolfi: L'Arca di Mosè: biografia epistolare di Mosè Bertoni. Casagrande Bellinzona 1994.
  19. ^ Andrea Ghiringhelli: Brenno Bertoni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 18, 2004 , accessed February 9, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Find A Grave: memorial no. 181965342, maintained by Robert Savary (contributor 48881410): Brenno Bertoni. August 1, 2017, accessed March 1, 2018 .
  21. ↑ La Redaction: Luigi Bertoni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 9, 2002 , accessed February 9, 2020 .