Orselina

Orselina

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District :	Locarno districtw
Circle :	Locarno district
BFS no. :	5121i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	6644
Coordinates :	704 999 / 115162 coordinates: 46 ° 10 '47 " N , 8 ° 47' 54" O ; CH1903: 704 999 / 11516246.17974 8.79846 449
Height :	449 m above sea level M.
Height range :	262–1442 m above sea level M.
Area :	1.94 km²
Residents:	727 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	375 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.orselina.ch
Location of the municipality
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Orselina is a municipality in the Locarno district , in the Locarno district of the Swiss canton of Ticino .

geography

View of Orselina

The community is located above Locarno on the mountainside with a view of Lake Maggiore . The municipality was formerly called Consiglio Mezzano (from Concilium medievale). Orselina and Muralto belonged together until 1881 .

history

Aerial photo (1953)

In 1881, the current municipality of Muralto, the lake, formerly known as the "lower Orselina", separated from the "Vicinia di Orselina", which had existed as a municipality since 1803. In the decades before, the two communities had separated more and more socially and spatially, and in 2011 a referendum failed to merge the communities of Locarno , Muralto , Minusio , Orselina, Brione sopra Minusio , Mergoscia and Tenero-Contra .

population

Population development
year	1596	1801	1850	1880	1888	1900	1950	2000	2010	2012	2014	2017
Residents	104	537	782	1206	227	212	648	866	755	761	754	735

Attractions

Madonna del Sasso, 2010

Parish Church of San Bernardo

Locarno-Orselina funicular

Orselina-Cardada cable car valley station (architect Mario Botta, 2000)

Orselina is known for the pilgrimage church Madonna del Sasso
Churchyard
Saint Francesco's wounds fountain
Casa del Padre Museum
Saint Francesco Prayer Chapel
Madonna del Sasso monastery
Capuchin Bartolomeo di Ivrea praying chapel
Way of the Cross
Prayer Chapel of San Bernardo al Monte
Castello Bernese (primary school)
Houses Taglio, Architects: Luigi Snozzi , Livio Vacchini
Cable car : A prominent point in the community is the cable car to Cardada , which opened in 2000, with the newly built valley station by Mario Botta .

Personalities

literature

Franco Binda: Archeologia rupestre nella Svizzera Italiana. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 1996.
Siro Borrani , Il Ticino Sacro. Memorie Religose della Svizzera Italiana raccolte dal sacerdote Siro Borrani prevosto di Losone. , Tipografia e Libreria Cattolica di Giovanni Grassi, Lugano 1896, p. 300.
Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967; Idem: I monumenti d'arte e di storia del Canton Ticino, volume I: Locarno e il suo circolo (Locarno, Solduno, Muralto e Orselina). (= The art monuments of Switzerland. Volume 60). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1972, pp. 65, 339, 356, 405, 409-478.
Rodolfo Huber: Orselina. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 10, 2011 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
Padre Leone da Lavertezzo: Santuario della Madonna del Sasso, guida illustrata. 2nd edition, Edizione Messaggero Serafico, Tipografia alla Motta SA, Locarno 1951.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. (Ed. GSK), Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 172-176.
Giovanni Pozzi (ed.): La Madonna del Sasso fra storia e leggenda. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 1980.
Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, (Castello e oratorio di San Biagio), pp. 161–163.
Celestino Trezzini : Orselina. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5: Neuenschwander - Picot. Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 356 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Orselina commune data
Orselina: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Cable car to Cardada
Vasile23: Castello Bernese on www.flickr.com
Vasile23: Madonna del Sasso on www.flickr.com

Individual evidence

↑ 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 .
↑ History of the Municipality of Muralto
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Rodolfo Huber: Orselina. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 21, 2010 .
↑ Sanctuary of the Madonna del Sasso, Church of the Annunciata and monastery
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l 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. 173–176.
↑ Lara Calderari, Simona Martinoli, Patrizio Pedrioli: Il Sacro Monte della Madonna del Sasso a Orselina. Swiss Art Guide Series 97, No. 966–967, Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Bern 2015.
↑ Casa del Padre Museum

[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] History of the Municipality of Muralto

[hsl-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Rodolfo Huber: Orselina. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 21, 2010 .

[4] Sanctuary of the Madonna del Sasso, Church of the Annunciata and monastery

[Martinoli-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l 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. 173–176.

[6] Lara Calderari, Simona Martinoli, Patrizio Pedrioli: Il Sacro Monte della Madonna del Sasso a Orselina. Swiss Art Guide Series 97, No. 966–967, Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Bern 2015.

[7] Casa del Padre Museum