Mergoscia

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Mergoscia
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Ticino (TI)
District :	Locarno district
Circle :	Navegna district
BFS no. :	5117
Postal code :	6647
Coordinates :	708 763  /  118593 coordinates: 46 ° 12 '36 "  N , 8 ° 50' 53"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-three  /  118593
Height :	735  m above sea level M.
Height range :	455–2051 m above sea level M.
Area :	12.15  km²
Residents:	213 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	18 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.mergoscia.ch
Mergoscia
Location of the municipality

Parish Church of Santi Carpoforo and Gottardo

View from the parish church towards the reservoir

View from Mergoscia to the reservoir to the south

View from the dam of Lake Vogorno to Mergoscia

Mergoscia , in the Alpine Lombard local dialect Mergosa, Mergesa [merˈgɔsa, merˈgesa] , is a political municipality in the district of Navegna , district of Locarno , in the Swiss canton of Ticino . It consists of the Ropiana, Busada, Benit and Lissoi factions.

geography

Aerial photo (1946)

Aerial view of Mergoscia (1964)

Mergoscia is located in the lower Verzasca Valley on the western flank of the valley above the Lago di Vogorno reservoir . It has its access via Contra and not, like the other villages in the Verzasca Valley, via Gordola .

Neighboring communities are Avegno , Brione sopra Minusio , Corippo , Gordevio , Gordola , Tenero-Contra and Vogorno .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1061 (copy from 1402) as Mergossia . The meaning of the place name is uncertain, perhaps there is a derivation from melica « pearl grass ».

Mergoscia separated politically from the Locarno countryside at the beginning of the 15th century and joined the Verzasca valley; In 1591 it became churchly independent from San Vittore in Muralto .

Local citizen families and their nicknames

Beretta (Pétira, Zuca, Buzer); Bianconi (Ravecia, Citt); Bulotti (Céchètt, Polèch, Bonesc, Pepitt); Cadra (Bazoi, Carèchi); Campini (Tétt, Piètt); Capella (Boscighei, Chegia, Cozz, Malferi, Zocorett, Císer, Pelanditt); Franca; Ghisla (Nécia, Muscètt, Marmèchi); Giannini (Martitt, Mila); Papìna (Cila, Politt); Pedroncini (Magnemm, Scéla); Pedroni (Rózoi); Perini (Simpra); Rusconi (Zèca); Scerri (Scirett).

population

Population development
year	1596	1790	1850	1900	1950	1990	2000	2010	2017
Residents	316	752	588	351	197	133	181	220	216

Attractions

See also : List of Cultural Assets in Mergoscia

• Parish Church of Santi Carpoforo and Gottardo, and rectory
• Ossuary (1733)
• Oratory Sant'Antonio da Padova in the district of Rivapiana with a fresco of the patron saint by Silvio Baccaglio (1951)
• Oratory Madonna di Re in the district of Lissoi with a wooden statue of the Madonna of Campini from Mergoscia
• Casa Torre built (1424)
• Two shell stones in the Cortoi alto district (1180 m above sea level)
• Three bowl stones in the district of Monte Faed (1340 m above sea level), one called Er Pira
• Sign stone Sass di cent cros on the border of the municipalities Tenero-Contra and Brione sopra Minusio in Val Resa (300 m after Viona)

Personalities

• Pietro Andrea Innocente Franca (born November 5, 1768 in Mergoscia, † December 22, 1826 in Muralto ), bell founder in Locarno 1790–1826.
• Giovanni Bianconi (1891–1981), wood carver, painter and local history researcher was buried in Mergoscia.

literature

• Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967; the same: 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. 182-204.
• Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 164-165.
• Giuseppe Mondada: Mergoscia. In: Catalogo delle pitture murali fino alla metà dell'Ottocento. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1934, pp. 96-97.
• Daniela Pauli Falconi: Mergoscia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 9, 2010 , accessed December 31, 2019 .
• Celestino Trezzini : Mergoscia. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5: Maillard - Monod. Attinger, Neuchâtel 1929, p. 3 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

• Mergoscia on the ETHorama platform
• Data from the municipality of Mergoscia
• Mergoscia: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
• Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Mergoscia
• Mergoscia on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} 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. 589 f.
3. ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Mergoscia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 30, 2008 .
4. ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Mergoscia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 30, 2008 .
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} 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 , pp. 164-165.
6. ^ Franco Binda, Locarno 2013, pp. 24, 88 (photo), 89.
7. ↑ Franco Binda, Locarno 2013, pp. 181-183.
8. ↑ Franco Binda, Locarno 2013, pp. 22-23 (photo), 152, 172.
9. ↑ Pietro Andrea Innocente Franca (Italian) on ricercamusica.ch/dizionario/ (accessed on: October 28, 2017.)