Someo

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Someo
Someo coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Vallemaggia districtw
Circle : Maggia district
Municipality : Maggia TIi2
Postal code : 6674
Coordinates : 694.28 thousand  /  126962 coordinates: 46 ° 17 '15 "  N , 8 ° 39' 43"  O ; CH1903:  694,280  /  126962
Height : 378  m above sea level M.
Area : 32.73  km²
Residents: 258 (2003)
Population density : 8 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.maggia.ch
Someo

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Parish before the merger on April 4, 2004
Madonna in Someo
Suspension bridge between Someo and Maggia
Former Riveo station in operation from 1907 to 1965

Somèo (in the Lombard dialect [zmei] ) is a village in the Ticino municipality of Maggia , Switzerland . Until 2004 it formed an independent political municipality .

geography

Aerial photo (1954)

The village lies at an altitude of 366 m above sea level. M. The place is on the left side of the Maggia river , about 25 km north of Locarno . The former municipality of Someo included the Riveo fraction.

history

Someo was first documented as Summade in 807. The linguistic origin of the name is unknown.

1355 Someo is attested as a neighborhood ( vicinia ) . It has been an independent parish since 1591, previously it was a church according to Cevio . The construction of the Maggia Valley Railway in 1907 encouraged the mining of paragneiss , especially in Riveo.

In 2003, before the municipal merger, 366 inhabitants lived on a municipality area of ​​32.73 hectares. Today Someo is part of the municipality of Maggia , which was formed on April 4, 2004 .

population

Population development
year 1591 1709 1801 1850 1900 1950 2000 2003
Residents 450 700 374 633 368 325 254 258

Local civil parish

Active local citizen families are Bianchi, Bormiolini, Camanini, Lepori, Morganti, Poletti, Righetti and Tomasini.

Attractions

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

Sacred buildings
  • Parish church of Santi Placido and Eustachio from the 13th century, first mentioned in 1365, with a (repeatedly renovated) portal from 1536
  • Ossuary
  • Prayer chapel of San Giovanni Battista (1850) with frescoes by Giacomo Antonio Pedrazzi (1851), namely Cristo Morto and Addolorata, and the statues of San Luca and San Giuliano
  • Gesola prayer chapel in the Terra di dentro district, with frescoes (17th – 19th centuries), including Madonna di Re, Madonna and Child, saints and evangelists by Giacomo Andrea Pedrazzi
  • Oratory Madonna delle Grazie in the district of Riveo (1703), renovated in 1729 and 1877; Stucco altar (1729) with the wooden statue Madonna col Bambino , the painting San Giuseppe e l'angelo and the votive offering Madonna del Soccorso (1722)
Other structures

Even today there are many houses from the 17th and 18th centuries in the town center. Witnesses of the former rural culture are, for example, the large well carved directly into the rock, the mills and the wash house.

Sports

  • Football Club Someo

Personalities

  • Victor Emanuel Camanini (born November 30, 1862 in Someo, † November 15, 1919 in Kilchberg ), decorative and flat painter
  • Antonio Tognazzini (* around 1855 in Somèo; † 1922 ibid), founder of Someo, now Casmalia , in California .
  • Ludwig Vanoni (born October 21, 1876 in Cologne , † November 7, 1972 in Someo), opera singer
  • Arrigo Caroni (born July 1, 1903 in Someo; † December 13, 1985 in Locarno ), economist, Ticino Grand Councilor, National Councilor

literature

Web links

Commons : Someo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 840.
  2. ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Someo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 29, 2016 .
  3. ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Someo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 29, 2016 .
  4. ^ Family name book of Switzerland
  5. ↑ List of sites of national importance , directory on the website of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), accessed on January 10, 2018.
  6. ↑ 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. 238, 244, 247, 248.
  7. ↑ Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia, passim.
  8. ^ Giacomo Antonio Pedrazzi. In: Sikart
  9. ↑ Buetti, 1969, p. 404.
  10. ↑ Someo Football Club
  11. ↑ Victor Emanuel Camanini. In: Sikart
  12. ↑ Ludwig_Vanoni in tls.theaterwissenschaft.ch (accessed on: April 25, 2016.)
  13. ^ Ludwig Vanoni on portal.dnb.de (accessed on March 21, 2017).
  14. ^ Pablo Crivelli: Arrigo Caroni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 27, 2003 , accessed March 30, 2020 .