Rima San Giuseppe

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Church in the district of Rima

Rima San Giuseppe (the upper district Rima Arimmu in Walser dialect) is a composed of the districts and Rima San Giuseppe fraction of the municipality of Alto Sermenza in the Italian province of Vercelli (VC), Region Piedmont . By the end of 2017 it formed an independent municipality with 65 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2016). On January 1, 2018, it merged with the previous neighboring municipality of Rimasco to form the new municipality of Alto Sermenza.

geography

The former municipal capital of San Giuseppe is 89 km from the provincial capital Vercelli at an altitude of 975 m above sea level, while the hamlet of Rima, which used to be an independent municipality at 1471 m, is at the far end of the Sermenza valley .

The municipality covered an area of ​​35.42 km². The neighboring communities were Alagna Valsesia , Boccioleto , Carcoforo , Macugnaga , Mollia , Rimasco and Riva Valdobbia .

language

In the district of San Giuseppe, the colloquial language has been Piedmontese since ancient times . In contrast, the inhabitants of the upper district of Rima, now only inhabited in summer, were German-speaking Walsers who immigrated from Alagna in the late Middle Ages . Their highest Alemannic dialect died out in the 20th century. It is documented in the Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland and in the poems of Pietro Axerio (1827–1905); Clara Stockmeyer's notes, however, are partially lost .

Attractions

In Rima San Giuseppe there is a museum ( Casa del marmo or Museo del Marmo Artificiale ) with an exhibition on artificial marble . These are plaster works, which are deceptively similar to real marble, for which the people of the valley were once famous and which they brought to Germany, France, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.

Personalities

literature

  • Maria Cecilia Axerio: Rima e il suo territorio. La "perla della Valsesia" tra natura e storia. Edizioni Millenia, Novara 2000.
  • Pier Benedetto Bertoli: Storia di Rima. Serarcangeli Editore, Rome 1989.
  • Paul Zinsli : Walser folklore in Switzerland, Vorarlberg, Liechtenstein and Piedmont. Heritage, existence, essence. Huber, Frauenfeld 1968; 7th, supplementary edition Terra Grischuna, Chur 2002, ISBN 3-905342-05-7 .

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