Museo della Valle di Blenio

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Casa dei Landfogti

The Museo della Valle di Blenio ("Museum of the Blenio Valley") is located in Lottigna in the Valle di Blenio in the Swiss canton of Ticino . It promotes the protection and enhancement of the valley's cultural assets with the collaboration of the canton, the Associazione del Museo di Blenio and the Centro di dialettologia e di etnografia CDE. It is housed in the "Casa dei Landfogti", the House of governors , which is also known as "Palazzo del Pretorio". It was opened in 1979.

history

In 1457 the inhabitants of the Blenio valley bought themselves free from the rule of the Bentivoglio family from Bologna , placed themselves under the protection of the Uri and swore them an oath of loyalty in 1495. From 1503 to 1798 the valley was the " common rule " of Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden . In 1550 the "Casa dei Landfogti" became the seat of the administration of the "Hennetbirgischen bailiffs". They took turns every two years and ruled the valley together with three jurors. The office of bailiff could be bought in 12 cantons at different prices. The incumbents, who also spoke the law, were usually not able to speak Italian and tended to generate as much income as possible in the short period of two years in order to get back at least the investment of buying the office. A high tax burden, legal uncertainties, corruption and even torture and death sentences for saving prison costs were like, just before the end of the order of the day, Ancien Regime , for. B. Karl Viktor von Bonstetten found out during a stay in the Blenio Valley. This only changed when the Blenio Valley became a district of the newly founded Canton of Ticino in 1803 . In memory of this past, a chain with a neck iron still hangs on the outside wall of the museum (see picture above).

The three-story building with a gneiss roof was built at the beginning of the 16th century by Colonel Gian Domenico Cima from Aquila . The year 1461 on a gate indicates a previous building. The Cima family donated the house to the bailiff Blenio around 1550. Until 1891 it was used as a courthouse. From 1968 to 1972 the building was completely restored.

The facade is completely covered with the coats of arms of the Blenio Valley, the three original cantons and the bailiffs who ruled the valley for around 300 years. The numerous coats of arms inside from the 17th century come from local patricians who were in the service of the bailiffs.

museum

Coat of arms in the entrance area

The ground floor is dedicated to agriculture and crafts. In one room there is furniture from the upper Blenio Valley, other rooms show the workshops of a carpenter, a blacksmith and a mill. A fully equipped old kitchen is shown on the first floor, as well as textile processing, traditional costumes and clothing from the valley. The religious art is exhibited in a separate room. Noteworthy here are the incunabula from the Church of San Remigio in Corzoneso, printed by Leonardo Pachelbel in Milan in 1499, and a carved group of apostles from the Val Malvaglia from the beginning of the 16th century. The emigration of numerous Ticino residents as chocolatiers, chestnut fryers, restaurateurs or coffee house operators is also discussed. Works by the sculptor Giovanni Genucchi (1904–1979) are also shown.

Temporary exhibitions take place on the second floor. A room in the turret at the back is dedicated to the anarchist and botanist Mosè Bertoni , who emigrated to Paraguay in 1884 . Two former prison cells are also interesting.

In a small courtyard at the back is the Arsenaletto , a small armory that was previously used as a weapons and ammunition depot and as an archive. Today, viticulture, wine production and beekeeping are the themes here. The Italian information texts are everywhere translated into German, French and English.

photos

  • ground floor

  • kitchen

  • Wheels, coats of arms

  • Turret on the back

  • Clockwork from Dongio Church , 1882

Web links

Commons : Palazzo del Pretorio, Lottigna  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prospectus Museo storico etnografico della Valle di Blenio
  2. ^ Gisela Loose, Rainer Voigt: Ticino - Art and Landscape between Gotthard and Campagna Adorna . 4th edition. DuMont, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7701-1113-3 , pp. 42 .
  3. ↑ Ticino.ch
  4. ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Cima. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 16, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Luca Solari: Blenio: una valle a confronto . Salvioni arti grafiche, Bellinzona 1998, ISBN 88-7967-023-9 , p. 118 f .
  6. ^ Claudio Guarda: Genucchi, Giovanni. In: SIKART Dizionario sull'arte in Svizzera. Istituto svizzero di studi d'arte, February 28, 2018, accessed August 15, 2018 (Italian).
  7. ↑ mosebertoni.ch
  8. ^ Sala Bertoni in the museum

Coordinates: 46 ° 28 '3.3 "  N , 8 ° 56' 39.3"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and fifteen thousand six hundred forty  /  147359