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Osogna
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Ticino (TI)
District :	Riviera district
Circle :	Riviera district
Municipality :	Riviera
Postal code :	6703
former BFS no. :	5286
Coordinates :	719 265  /  130193 coordinates: 46 ° 18 '45 "  N , 8 ° 59' 13"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred nineteen thousand two hundred and sixty-five  /  130193
Height :	279  m above sea level M.
Area :	18.97  km²
Residents:	1069 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	56 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.comuneriviera.ch
Osogna
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Parish before the merger on April 1, 2017

Parish Church of Santi Felino e Gratiniano

Santa Maria del Castello church

Santa Pietà Church

Mountain hut d'Orz

Osogna (dt. Outdated: Ulonia ) was a political municipality in the Riviera district , in the Riviera district in the canton of Ticino , until April 1, 2017 . On April 2, 2017, Osogna merged with the former municipalities of Cresciano , Iragna and Lodrino to form the new municipality of Riviera .

geography

Osogna is located 15 kilometers north of Bellinzona and five kilometers south of Biasca , on the left bank of the Ticino River . The highest mountain peak is the Torrone d'Orza (2952 m above sea level). The rocks in the region are mostly made of gneiss and granite . The vegetation consists of deciduous trees (beech, chestnut), up to 900 m and above softwood (spruce, larch). The Nala River divides the village in two. The Boggera river marks the border with Cresciano.

history

The village is first mentioned in the years 1210–1258 under the name of Usonia at the time . Osogna is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1299. Roman graves have been found near the Nala River. An ordinance of the civil parish of 1410 says that if a family has more than 10 goats, they must pay a tithing (a healthy kid). The report of the community of August 3, 1448 is interesting. They decided on the location of a building for a sawmill. The participants were only called by their first names (Joseph von Cornon or Jacob von Roncasc).

Osogna was the capital of the bailiwick from 1573 to 1798 and has been the capital of the Riviera district since 1803. The bailiffs represented the power of the three sovereign cantons ( canton Uri , canton Schwyz and Unterwalden ) and spoke law. The executions took place in the “Giustizia” district between Biasca and Osogna. Agriculture was the main activity of the population for centuries. The chestnuts were important as food during the winter months. The vine was also cultivated in the sunniest places.

There were many wild animals in the Osogna Valley. The last bear was killed by Francesco Antonio Mattei in 1837. 15 bears were shot in Osogna between 1808 and 1837. The canton paid a £ 50 reward from Milan for every bear killed (you had to show your right paw as evidence).

The village was a stopover on the Gotthard route. A few taverns took care of the passengers and horses that stayed during the night. The Ticino River often flooded fields and meadows. Even today it happens that sometimes, despite the dams, some areas are flooded.

Local civil parish

The civil parish is older than the political parish. The middle-class families of Osogna are part of this public institution from the medieval neighborhood . The entire mountain and pasture land belong to the community.

The usufruct of the pastures in summer was divided between the middle class families (Boggia von Casnedo for the Pellanda family, Boggia Orz for the Jemetti family, Boggia Otri for the Mattei family). This agricultural activity typical of the alpine regions (static transhumance: one changes the place of residence in summer first to Maiensäss and later to the highest pastures) was abandoned in 1950.

The old bourgeois families of Osogna are: Guidi, Jemetti, Malaguerra, Mattei, Negrini, Pellanda.

population

Population development
year	1850	1900	1950	2000	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Residents	262	656	489	941	1033	1032	1037	1044	1046	1060	1069

Industry

The granite industry has grown with the opening of the Gotthard Railway . In 1899, around 1,500 men were working in the Osogna quarries. At that time, quarrying was one of the most important industries in Ticino. This industry was very dependent on construction activity. In 1908 production was halved. The reinforced concrete competition was very strong. The workers came from Italy. The silicosis was a widespread disease among the Masons. Strikes for better working conditions and wages were frequent. The last quarry was closed in the sixties. Today quarries are still in operation in Cresciano.

The opening of the Gotthard Railway allowed several residents to work in track construction, in the workshops of Biasca and Bellinzona or at the station and on the trains. After the First World War, the Osogna School became known in Switzerland because the teacher Giovannina Mattei-Alberti was one of the first to use the Montessori method. Emigration to the United States and Latin America was high in the nineteenth century and at the beginning of World War II.

Attractions

See also : List of Cultural Assets in Riviera

• The parish church of Santi Felino e Gratiniano was built in 1498 with a south portal
• medieval church of Santa Maria del Castello with a Gothic icon by Ivo Strigel on the foundations of an old castle
• old way of the cross with frescoes
• Prayer Chapel of San Rocco with frescoes (17th century)
• Santa Pietà Church (1729)
• two stone bridges: Ponte del Sabbion and Ponte di Merisciöö
• Linea LONA fortress.

Personalities

• Giovannina Mattei Alberti (born October 14, 1873 in Montevideo , † September 20, 1963 in Osogna), sister of Maria Boschetti Alberti, secondary teacher, pedagogue, successor to Montessori education , journalist
• Vittorio Castelnuovo (born August 3, 1915 in Osogna, † September 17, 2005 in Bellinzona), from Biasca , Swiss singer, accordionist and composer
• Graziano Mandozzi (born June 23, 1939 in Osogna), orchestra conductor and composer, he studied at the Mozarteum of Salisburg under Wimberger, Paumgartner and Bresgen, (diploma 1963). He studied the compositions of Ruggero Leoncavallo and he formed the Fondo Leoncavallo located in the Biblioteca cantonale of Locarno
• Gabriele Genini (* 1981), painter, draftsman, printmaker

Sports

• Associazione Calcistica Osogna

literature

• Piero Bianconi (Ed.): Osogna. In: Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Le Tre Valli Superiori. Leventina, Blenio, Riviera. Grassi & Co., Bellinzona 1948, pp. 156, 158, 161.
• Giuseppe Chiesi: Osogna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 5, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
• Simona Martinoli u. a .: Osogna. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 69-70.
• Eligio Pometta : Il Comune libero di Osogna nel 1400. In: Bollettino storico della Svizzera Italiana. 1935, pp. 282-85.
• Agostino Robertini et al. a .: Osogna. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1978, pp. 2282-292.
• Celestino Trezzini : Osogna. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5, Neuenschwander - Picot. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 360 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

• Website of the Municipality of Riviera (Italian)
• Data from the municipality of Riviera
• Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Riviera
• Osogna: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
• Fortresses Osogna ( Memento of August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marzio Barelli: Lupi, orsi, linci e aquile. JAM Edizioni, Prosito, 2005, p. 127.
2. ^ Family name book
3. ^ Giuseppe Chiesi: Osogna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 3, 2017 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Published by the Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 69–70.l
5. ↑ Defense system Linea LONA on forti.ch, accessed July 26, 2015.
6. ↑ [1]
7. ↑ Vittorio Castelnuovo (Italian) on ricercamusica.ch/dizionario/ (accessed on: November 6, 2017.)
8. ↑ Graziano Mandozzi (Italian) on ricercamusica.ch/dizionario/ (accessed on: December 19, 2017.)
9. ↑ Gabriele Genini in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 4, 2016.)
10. ↑ Associazione Calcistica Osogna ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.