Menzonio

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Menzonio
Coat of arms of Menzonio
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Vallemaggia districtw
Circle : Lavizzara district
Municipality : Lavizzarai2
Postal code : 6692
Coordinates : 692.52 thousand  /  135132 coordinates: 46 ° 21 '40 "  N , 8 ° 38' 27"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred ninety-two thousand five hundred and twenty  /  135132
Height : 731  m above sea level M.
Area : 10.68  km²
Residents: 87 (2003)
Population density : 8 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.lavizzara.ch
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Menzonio (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on April 4, 2004
Atelier Gianfredo Camesi
Gianfredo Camesi (2005)

Menzonio is a fraction of the political municipality Lavizzara in the Lavizzara district , in the Vallemaggia district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

geography

The village lies at an altitude of 725 m above sea level. M. on a terrace lined with chestnut trees and 33 km north of Locarno . Due to its location, one overlooks a large part of the Lavizzar valley. The village was one of several processing centers for also for the production of vessels soapstone called soapstone from the quarries of Val Lavizzara and Val Bavona, and the common word Lavezstein has a connection with the Val Lavizzara.

history

The village was first mentioned in 1364 under the then name Menzone ; then Manzonio 1400, Menzoia 1589, Mentono 1591, Menzoii 1596. In the Middle Ages a vicinia with Brontallo formed ; under Swiss rule it appointed one of the judges to assist the bailiff in the administration of justice and sent three representatives to the council of the Lavizzar valley.

The hamlet of Piantedo (roughly: "planted") and the group of houses Monda (roughly: "clearing") are around 100 meters above the village and were inhabited all year round and only accessible on foot. Piantedo has been operated and renovated by the Pianta Monda Menzonio cooperative since 1993 as an eco-village and cooperative .

Community merger

The previously independent political municipality Menzonio was merged on April 4, 2004 with the former municipalities Broglio , Brontallo , Fusio , Peccia and Prato-Sornico to form Lavizzara municipality.

population

Population development
year 1591 1669 1765 1795 1850 1900 1920 1950 1990 2000 2003
Residents about 300 315 150 149 177 190 128 128 70 73 87

Attractions

  • Parish Church of Santi Giacomo and Filippo
  • Oratory Vergine Assunta (1675)>, in the interior: Alchimia della visione-Archeologia del pensiero. (1984/1986) by the painter Gianfredo Camesi-

Personalities

  • Teresa Bontempi (* July 8, 1883 in Locarno ; † August 25, 1968 in Cevio , town of Menzonio), journalist, kindergarten inspector; politician
  • Gianfredo Camesi (born March 24, 1940 in Cevio), Swiss painter and sculptor.

literature

  • Giovanni Bianconi : Vallemaggia. Edizioni LEMA, Agno 1969.
  • Guglielmo Buetti: Note Storiche Religiose delle Chiese e Parrocchie della Pieve di Locarno, (1902), e della Verzasca, Gambarogno, Valle Maggia e Ascona (1906). 2nd edition, Pedrazzini Edizioni, Locarno 1969.
  • Flavio Maggi: Patriziati e patrizi ticinesi. Pramo Edizioni, Viganello 1997.
  • Daniela Pauli Falconi: Menzonio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 17, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
  • Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Tipografia Stazione SA, Locarno 1972, pp. 8, 61-62, 79, 92, 151, 153, 173, 193, 290-291, 323, 325, 335, 342, 348, 367, 377-378, 399, 404 , 409-410, 413-414.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Menzonio. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5, Maillard - Monod. Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 80 ( digitized version ).
  • Luciano Vaccaro, Giuseppe Chiesi, Fabrizio Panzera: Terre del Ticino. Diocesi di Lugano. Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 2003, p. 277 Note
Art history
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Menzonio. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 262-263.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Soapstone in the Maggia Valley
  2. ↑ Duden online: clearing (meaning 2)
  3. ^ A life as a fringe settler , NZZ, December 29, 2012
  4. ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Menzonio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 17, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the  Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 262–263
  6. ↑ Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Pp. 325, 348, 409, 414.
  7. ↑ Pasquale Genasci: Teresa Bontempi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 14, 2000 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Teresina Bontempi (Italian) in osservatoriogenere.ch, accessed January 4, 2016.