Formazza

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Formazza
coat of arms
Formazza (Italy)
Formazza
Country Italy
region Piedmont
province Verbano-Cusio-Ossola  (VB)
Coordinates 46 ° 23 '  N , 8 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 23 '0 "  N , 8 ° 26' 0"  E
height 1280  m slm
surface 131 km²
Residents 446 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 3 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 28030
prefix 0324
ISTAT number 103031
Popular name Formazzini
Patron saint Bernhard of Clairvaux ( August 20 )
Website Formazza
Formazza in Piedmont

Formazza ( Walser German Púmatt, German Pomatt ) is a municipality in the Italian province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB), Piedmont region .

geography

Formazza includes the Val Formazza (Eng. Pomatt), the uppermost section of the valley formed by the River Toce (Walser German Riis ). The continuation of the Val Formazza to Domodossola is called Valle Antigorio .

Via the Griespass (border crossing to Switzerland at 2479  m above sea level ) there is a connection to the Nufenenpass , from where both Goms in the canton of Valais and Val Bedretto in the canton of Ticino can be reached; The latter can also be reached directly over the San Giacomo Pass . The valley used to be an important traffic route, as a mule track led from the Valais over the Griespass to Lombardy .

The municipality with an area of ​​131 km² comprises nine hamlets inhabited all year round: San Rocco, Il Passo, Foppiano (wdt. Unnrum Schtaldä, dt. Unterstalden ), Fondovalle (wdt. Schtafulwald, dt. Stafelwald ), Chiesa (wdt. In där Mattu , German Andermatten ), San Michele (wdt. Tuffald, German. Tuffwald ), Valdo (wdt. and German. Forest ), Ponte (wdt. Zum Schtäg, German. Zumsteg ), Brendo (wdt. Brendu, German. Brennen ) , Grovella (wdt. Gurfälu, dt. Gurfelen ) and Canza (wdt. Früduwald, dt. Frut [t] wald ).

The neighboring Italian municipalities are Baceno and Premia . The municipality also borders the Swiss cantons of Valais (west) and Ticino (east); the only German-speaking village in Ticino, Bosco / Gurin , is connected to the Pomatt via the Gurin Furggu . Formazza is the northernmost municipality in Piedmont.

History and language

In the Middle Ages, the Val Formazza was settled by Walsers who came from Goms in Switzerland and were thus German-speaking. The High Alemannic dialect ( Walser German ), which is still spoken today by the older generation in particular , the construction of the houses and numerous German field names bear witness to this settlement.

The Pomatt was occupied twice by the Valais and was a common rule of the Old Confederation . After the Battle of Marignano in 1515, the Swiss had the valley to the time of France dominated Duchy of Milan cede.

From 1988 onwards , Anna Maria Bacher created important dialect literature in German local dialect. Three of her poems were set to music by the Swiss composer Heinz Holliger .

population

Population development
year 1861 1871 1881 1901 1921 1931 1951 1971 1991 2001 2011 2018
Residents 656 683 654 515 517 659 732 577 461 448 442 442

Tourism and sport

For mountain hikers, the 3A hut is located above the Siedel glacier at 2922 m above sea level. M. with 80 beds and the Claudio and Bruno hut on Lake Sabbione at 2710 m above sea level. M. with 90 beds available, both owned by Operation Mato Grosso (OMG).

The ski facilities include the Ponte ski lift (1980), the Sagersboden chairlift (since 1999) and the Valdo 1 ski lift (since 2001). There is a cross-country ski run in Riale.

gallery

  • Formazza Valley

  • Fondovalle / Stafuwald parliamentary group

  • Parish church of San Bernardo in the Chiesa / In där Mattu district

  • Group of houses in the Chiesa / In där Mattu district

  • Talmuseum Steihüs in the district / Ponte to STAEG

  • House from 1608 in the district In dä Brendu / Brendo

  • Group of houses in the district of Canza / Fruduwald

  • Cascata del Toce / Tosa Falls

  • Riale / Charbäch parliamentary group

literature

  • Angela Bacher: Pomatt, una valle, una comunità, una lingua. Tipolitografia Cerutti, Intra 1983.
  • Angela Bacher: Bärulussä. Il prato più bello dell'orso. Suoni, nomi e luoghi nella parlata walser di Formazza. Tararà Edizione, Verbania 1995.
  • Aristide Baragiola : Folklore di Val Formazza. Ermanno Loescher, Roma 1914.
  • Aristide Baragiola: Documenti latini, italiani e tedeschi di Formazza. In: Bollettino Storico per la Provincia di Novara 3 (1918) and 4 (1919).
  • Silvia Dal Negro: Mantenimento, variazione e morte della lingua nel Walser di Formazza. IX Ciclo. Dissertation University of Pavia. o. O., o. J.
  • Silvia Dal Negro, Carla Willeit, Alessandra Carpene: Studi su fenomeni, situazioni e forme del bilinguismo. Milan 1999 (Educazione bilingual 20).
  • Silvia Dal Negro: Parlare walser in Piemonte. Archivio sonoro delle parlate walser. Edited by the Centro Studi Walser di Rimella and the Walserverein Pomatt. Vercelli 2006 [with 1 DVD].
  • Pio Scilligo : Pumattertietsch Werterbeuch. Dizionario Formazzino - Italiano e Italiano - Formazzino. Pumattertietsch - Waeltsch - Tietsch and Waeltsch - Pumattertietsch - Tietsch. Roma 1993.

Web links

Commons : Formazza  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ San Rocco on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
  3. ↑ Il Passo on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
  4. ↑ Foppiano on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
  5. ↑ Ponte on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
  6. ↑ For the German names, see for example http://digitool.is.cuni.cz:1801/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=1142682.xml&dvs=1535752835445~410&locale=de_DE&search_terms=&adjacency=&VIEWER_URL=/view/action /nmets.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=3&divType=