Sobrio

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Leventina district

Circle :

Giornico district

Municipality :

Faido

Postal code :

6749

former BFS no. :

5081

Coordinates :

712 383 / 139783 coordinates: 46 ° 24 '0 " N , 8 ° 54' 0" O ; CH1903: 712 383 / 139783

Height :

1117 m above sea level M.

Area :

6.4 km²

Residents:

80 (April 9, 2016)

Population density :

13 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.faido.ch

map

Parish on April 9, 2016 before the merger

Matro mountain

Transmission tower on the matro

Until April 9, 2016, Sobrio was a political municipality in the Giornico district , in the Leventina district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland . On April 10, 2016, Sobrio merged with Faido to form the new political municipality of Faido.

geography

The small mountain village of Sobrio is located on a terrace on the left slope of the Leventina Valley at the north-west foot of the Matro mountain (2172m above sea level) and consists of the two districts of Villa and Ronzano . The parish church of St. Lorenzo is located between the two hamlets .

Sobrio is on the Strada Alta . Together with Anzonico, Calonico and Cavagnago, Sobrio forms the so-called Traversa .

history

The village is first mentioned in 1225 under the then name Sourio .

In spring 2004, the residents of Sobrio rejected the merger of their municipality with the district capital Faido in a referendum. The new municipality should have emerged from the merger of the municipalities of Anzonico , Calonico , Calpiogna , Campello , Cavagnago , Chiggiogna , Faido , Mairengo , Osco , Rossura and Sobrio. The project was only accepted by the municipalities of Faido, Chiggiogna, Rossura and Cavagnago. Some of the inhabitants of Sobrio preferred to merge with the municipalities of Giornico , Bodio , Pollegio and Personico of the lower Leventina. Due to its high location, Sobrio can only be reached directly from Lavorgo by road, but not from the communities of the lower Leventina. On April 10, 2016, Sobrio merged with Faido.

population

Population development
year	1745	1824	1850	1900	1950	2000	2014	2016
Residents	331	380	365	237	98	74	80	80

Attractions

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

Parish Church of San Lorenzo (1369)
Oratory of San Rocco built in the 18th century with paintings by the painter Tommaso Calgari from Osco
Oratory Santissimo Crocefisso in the district of Ronzano (18th century)
Fresco ' Annunciazione (16th century) in a prayer chapel
La Canonica (rectory) (1688)
Graveyard.

literature

Piero Bianconi , Arminio Janner: Sobrio. In: Arte in Leventina. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1939, pp. 29, 34, 46, 63, 97, 102.
Piero Bianconi (Ed.): Sobrio. In: Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Le Tre Valli Superiori. Leventina, Blenio, Riviera. Grassi & Co., Bellinzona 1948, p. 2013, 205.
Samuel Butler : Alpi e Santuari del Canton Ticino , Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1984.
Mario Fransioli: Sobrio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 17, 2017 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
Bruno Giandeini: I racconti dell'acero. ASS - Associazione attinenti e simpatizzanti di Sobrio, 1989.
Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 178, 284, 481, 553.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Sobrio. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 126-127.
Celestino Trezzini : Sobrio. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 6, Sisikon - Steg. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1931, pp. 391, 392 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Website of the Faido municipality
Faido municipality data
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Faido (Italian)
Sobrio: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Federal inventory ISOS: Sobrio-Ronzano (PDF; 1.2 MB)
Sobrio on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

↑ Mario Fransioli: Sobrio. 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 Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 126–127.
↑ Gilardoni, 1967, 553-554.
^ Bernasconi Reusser, 2010, 241.

[1] Mario Fransioli: Sobrio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 28, 2016 .

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

[Martinoli-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 126–127.

[4] Gilardoni, 1967, 553-554.

[5] Bernasconi Reusser, 2010, 241.