Palagnedra

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Palagnedra
Palagnedra coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Locarno districtw
Circle : Melezza district
Municipality : Centovallii2
Postal code : 6657
Coordinates : 692 204  /  112098 coordinates: 46 ° 9 '15 "  N , 8 ° 37' 56"  O ; CH1903:  692204  /  112098
Height : 657  m above sea level M.
Area : 16.74  km²
Residents: 123 (December 31, 2008)
Population density : 7 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.centovalli.ch
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Palagnedra (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on October 24, 2009

Palagnèdra [palaˈñɛːdra] (in the Lombard dialect [palaˈɲɛdra parˈɲɛdri] ) is a district of the Ticino municipality of Centovalli . Until 2009 it formed an independent political municipality .

geography

Aerial photo (1953)

The village lies on a terrace on the southern slope of the Centovalli , just before the Swiss-Italian border. The hamlets of Bordèi, Mòneto and Cresto-Monadèllo belonged to the former municipality.

The Lago di Palagnedra reservoir is located near the village . The dam was completed in 1952 and is 72 m high. The lake was created by the damming of the Melezza River .

History and economy

The village was first mentioned in writing in 1236, another early mention was made in 1379 as Pallagnidrio . The place was the administrative and ecclesiastical center of the Centovalli in the High Middle Ages, and the Church of San Michele was the mother church of the valley. In 1864 Palagnedra became its own political municipality.

From the end of the Middle Ages, seasonal emigration formed an important pillar of the economy: many citizens moved from Palagnedra to Tuscany in order to earn money from the 16th century, primarily as porters and from the 19th century as cooks . Several stately houses in the village still bear witness to the former prosperity. Thanks to the proximity to the border, smuggling also played an important role until the 1950s .

After 1970, the "base camp" of the Terra Vecchia therapeutic foundation was set up in the hamlet of Bordèi . At that time, the aim was to rebuild the town of the same name, which had since fallen into disrepair.

On October 25, 2009, Palagnedra merged with the municipalities of Borgnone and Intragna to form the new municipality of Centovalli .

In 2005, more than a third of all jobs were in the primary sector .

population

Population development
year 1850 1900 1950 2000 2008
Residents 337 267 298 92 123

Attractions

  • Parish church of San Michele with the best preserved late Gothic fresco cycle by Antonio da Tradate , painted in the 1490s
  • Oratory of Santi Giacomo e Filippo in the Moneto district
  • Several manorial townhouses testify to the prosperity that the emigrated palagneses brought home to their village from Tuscany, including:
    • Casa Mazzi with the Medici coat of arms on the wrought-iron balcony, built in the middle of the 18th century for Petronio Mazzi, a high official of the Grand Duke Gian Gastone de 'Medici
    • Casa P. Mazzi, decorated with sgraffito paintings based on the Florentine Gothic , made in 1907 by craftsmen from Florence.

photos

  • Parish Church of San Michele, built in 1731

  • Interior of the parish church of San Michele

  • Casa P. Mazzi in Palagnedra, built in 1907

  • Bordei and oratorio Santi Pietro e Paolo

  • Oratory Santi Pietro e Paolo in the Bordèi district, built in the 17th century

  • Oratory of Santi Giacomo e Filippo in the Moneto district

  • Palagnedra reservoir

  • Dam of the Lago di Palagnedra

Personalities

  • Taddeo Mazzi (* around 1600 in Palagnedra; † in Florence  ?), Active as a painter in Florence and in Santuario di Montesenario
  • Lorenzo Cresci (* around 1570 in Palagnèdra; † after 1602 there?), Painter
  • Giacomo Damosti (* around 1715 in Palagnèdra; † after 1750 in Ascona  ?), Worked as a painter in Ascona

literature

  • Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Arte e monumenti della Lombardia prealpina. Istituto grafico Casagrande, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 232, 472-474.
  • Rodolfo Huber: Palagnedra. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 11, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
  • Art guide through Switzerland. Volume 2. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History . Completely revised edition, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-906131-96-3 , p. 634 f.
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Palagnedra. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 212, 217-220, 385.
  • Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, pp. 246–249.
  • Agostino Robertini, Silvano Toppi, Gian Piero Pedrazzi: Palagnedra. In: Il Comune. Edizioni Giornale del Popolo, Lugano 1974, pp. 253-270.
  • Elfi Rüsch: I monumenti d'arte e di storia del Canton Ticino. Distretto di Locarno IV: La Verzasca, il Pedemonte, le Centovalli e l'Onsernone (= The art monuments of Switzerland. Volume 123). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History. SKG, Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-084-3 , pp. 244-264.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Palagnedra. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5: Neuenschwander - Picot. Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 371 ( digitized version ).
  • Daniel Vischer, Giulio Trucco: The remodeling of the spillway of Palagnedra = Reconstruction de l'évacuateur de crue de Palagnedra. Research institute for hydraulic engineering, hydrology and glaciology, Zurich 1985.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 693.
  2. ^ Rodolfo Huber: Palagnedra. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 21, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Art guide through Switzerland. Volume 2. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History . Completely revised edition, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-906131-96-3 , p. 634.
  4. ↑ Art guide through Switzerland. Volume 2. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History . Completely revised edition, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-906131-96-3 , p. 634 f.
  5. ^ Taddeo Mazzi. In: Sikart , accessed January 21, 2016.
  6. ↑ Lorenzo Cresci. In: Sikart
  7. ↑ Giacomo Damosti. In: Sikart