Rossura

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Leventina district

Circle :

Faido County

Municipality :

Faido

Postal code :

6760

former BFS no. :

5080

Coordinates :

706 484 / 148097 coordinates: 46 ° 28 '33 " N , 8 ° 49' 31" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and six thousand four hundred eighty-four / 148097

Height :

1054 m above sea level M.

Area :

14.63 km²

Residents:

62 (December 31, 2005)

Population density :

4 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.faido.ch

Rossura

map

Parish before the merger on January 28, 2006

Parish Church of Santi Lorenzo e Agata

Fresco in the interior

Inscription by the painters Cristoforo and Nicolao de Seregno who lived in Lugano (1463)

Rossura (dt. Obsolete: Rossur ) was a municipality in the Faido district , in the Leventina district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland . Since January 29, 2006 it has been part of the Faido municipality .

geography

Rossura is located on a terrace on the left slope of the Leventina Valley at 1056 m above sea level. The parish church of Santi Lorenzo e Agata stands a little outside the village on a hill , which together with the typical wooden houses in the village center creates a picturesque picture.

The former municipality of Rossura also included the villages of Molare (first mentioned in the 13th century), Figgione and Tengia, which are on the same terrace as Rossura, and Molare. The latter is on a higher terrace at 1450 meters. Figgione, Rossura and Tengia are on the Strada Alta .

history

The village was first mentioned in 1201 as Resora, Resura .

Merger with Faido

In a referendum in March 2004, the citizens of Rossura approved the merger of their municipality with Faido , Osco , Mairengo , Calpiogna , Campello , Cavagnago , Anzonico , Chiggiogna and Calonico .

The merger project for the new municipality, which as a result of the rejection of an earlier merger project by some of the above-mentioned municipalities only includes the municipalities of Faido, Chiggiogna , Calonico and Rossura, was approved in a referendum on June 5, 2005 and received yours on January 29, 2006 new executive and legislative branches. The community of Rossura last had 62 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2005).

population

Population development
year	1745	1801	1850	1900	1950	2000	2005
Residents	351	389	335	209	154	55	62

Attractions

The village image is classified in the inventory of protected sites in Switzerland (ISOS) as a site of national importance in Switzerland.

Parish church of Santi Lorenzo e Agata with frescoes by Cristoforo and Nicolao da Seregno (1463)
Way of the Cross with frescoes (1755)
Oratory of San Rocco in Figgione, built after 1750
Oratory of Sant'Antonio da Padova in the Tengia district
Different typical farmhouses
Old grain mill
Parish church of San Giacomo Maggiore in the district of Molare.

Personalities

Pietro Antonio De Maria (born February 28, 1693 in Molare (today Faido parish ), † April 26, 1766 in Rho ), priest, member of the Brotherhood of Oblate Missionaries in Rho
Lorenzo Orsi (born August 7, 1709 in Rossura (today Faido municipality ), † June 2, 1755 in Faido), captain of Leventina , beheaded as a traitor
Rocco (Giovanni Carlo Casari) da Bedano (* 1906 in Bedano; † December 1, 1983 in Locarno ), Capuchin, pastor of Rossura, historian, 1980 researcher at the Centro studi del Negromante in Locarno, honorary citizen of Bedano
Pio Edo Cassina (born May 16, 1915 in Curio TI ; † 1995 in Rossura), painter, draftsman, lecturer, restorer, discoverer of the frescoes in the church of Santi Lorenzo e Agata in Rossura

literature

Bernhard Other: Guida d'Arte della Svizzera Italiana. Edizioni Trelingue, Porza-Lugano 1980, pp. 103-105.
Marina Bernasconi Reusser: Monumenti storici e documenti d'archivio. I “Materiali e Documenti Ticinesi” (MDT) quali fonti per la storia e le ricerche sull'architettura e l'arte medievale delle Tre Valli. In: Archivio Storico Ticinese. 2nd series, number 148, Casagrande, Bellinzona 2010, pp. 217, 219, 241.
Piero Bianconi , Arminio Janner: Molare and Rossura. In: Arte in Leventina. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1939, pp. 32, 51, 53, 54, 73, 75; the same (ed.): Rossura. In: Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Le Tre Valli Superiori. Leventina, Blenio, Riviera. Grassi & Co., Bellinzona 1948, p. 193, (Molare) 193, 195.
Mario Fransioli: Rossura. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 17, 2017 , accessed December 29, 2019 .
Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, p. 226, (Molare p. 434), 527-528.
Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, p. 132.
Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, p. 264.
Celestino Trezzini : Rossura. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5, Retornaz - Saint Didier. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1929, p. 739 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Website of the Faido municipality
Faido municipality data
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Faido (Italian)
Rossura: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Federal inventory ISOS: Rossura (PDF; 672 kB)
Federal inventory ISOS: Figgione (PDF; 638 kB)
Federal inventory ISOS: Tengia (PDF; 766 kB)
Rossura on elexikon.ch (source with typo)

Individual evidence

↑ Celestino Trezzini: Molare on biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz, p. 115, (accessed on February 4, 2018).
↑ Mario Fransioli: Rossura. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 28, 2016 .
↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Simona Martinoli and others .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 132-133.
↑ Parish Church of Santi Lorenzo e Agata
^ Gianfranco Barbieri: Pietro Antonio De Maria. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 14, 2017 , accessed February 20, 2020 .
↑ Elia Spizzi: Lorenzo Orsi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 17, 2010 , accessed December 28, 2019 .
↑ Rocco da Bedano on bedano.ch
↑ Rocco da Bedano on portal.dnb.de (accessed on March 11, 2017).
^ Pio Edo Cassina. In: Sikart

[1] Celestino Trezzini: Molare on biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz, p. 115, (accessed on February 4, 2018).

[2] Mario Fransioli: Rossura. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 28, 2016 .

[3] List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.

[Martinoli-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Simona Martinoli and others .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 132-133.

[5] Parish Church of Santi Lorenzo e Agata

[6] Gianfranco Barbieri: Pietro Antonio De Maria. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 14, 2017 , accessed February 20, 2020 .

[7] Elia Spizzi: Lorenzo Orsi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 17, 2010 , accessed December 28, 2019 .

[8] Rocco da Bedano on bedano.ch

[9] Rocco da Bedano on portal.dnb.de (accessed on March 11, 2017).

[10] Pio Edo Cassina. In: Sikart