Sornico

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Ticino (TI)

District :

Vallemaggia district

Circle :

Lavizzara district

Municipality :

Lavizzara

Postal code :

6695

Coordinates :

693 440 / 139276 coordinates: 46 ° 23 '54 " N , 8 ° 39' 13" O ; CH1903: six hundred and ninety-three thousand four hundred forty / 139276

Height :

754 m above sea level M.

Website:

www.lavizzara.ch

Sornico

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Parish before the merger on April 4, 2004

Sornico

Sornico mit Prato (Vallemaggia) is a fraction of the political municipality Lavizzara in the Lavizzara district , in the Vallemaggia district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

geography

The village is located at 754 m above sea level. M. in Val Lavizzara , on the left bank of the Lavizzara and 8 km north of the village of Bignasco .

history

The village was first mentioned in 1374 under the then name Sornico . The village belonged to the vicinia Lavizzara and was its main town. In 1374 the villages of Sornico, Prato (Vallemaggia) , Broglio TI , Peccia and Fusio divided the common land; one can therefore set the emergence of the still existing community of Sornico for this year.

Community merger

Prato-Sornico was merged on April 4, 2004 with the former municipalities of Broglio , Brontallo , Fusio , Menzonio to form the municipality of Lavizzara.

population

Population development
year	1591	1801	1920
Residents	30 households	225	36

Local citizen families

Cavalli, Moretti, Cotti, Jelmini, Fenini, Melia, Oberti.

Attractions

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

San Martino Church, mentioned in 1372
Community House (1500)
Moretti house (XVII century)

Personalities

Abraham Cotti (* around 1535 in Sornico?; First mentioned around 1560; † after 1616 in Freiburg im Üechtland ), entrepreneur and stonemason
The Roman Catholic clergyman and library founder Giovanni Giulio Gerolamo Berna worked in the municipality in the 18th century .
Bernardo Pfiffer-Gagliardi (born September 19, 1810 (also Phiffer, Pfyffer or Gagliardi-Pfiffer in reverse of the double name adopted from his father) in Prato-Sornico (today Lavizzara municipality); † February 14, 1867), politician
Giacomo Pfiffer-Gagliardi (March 20, 1809 (also Phiffer, Pfyffer or Gagliardi-Pfiffer in reverse of the double name taken from his father) in Prato-Sornico; † July 31, 1867 in Locarno ), politician, radical liberal, Ticino Grand Councilor, Council of State
Flavio Cotti (* 1939), lawyer, former Federal Councilor

literature

Giovanni Bianconi : Prato-Sornico. In: Vallemaggia. Edizioni LEMA, Agno 1969.
Piero Bianconi : Sornico. In: Arte in Vallemaggia. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1937, pp. 1, 15.
Virgilio Gilardoni : Prato-Sornico. In: Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 287, 562.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Prato-Sornico. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, p. 265.
Daniela Pauli Falconi: Prato-Sornico. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 17, 2017 , accessed January 9, 2020 .
Martino Signorelli: Prato-Sornico. In: Storia della Valmaggia. Tipografia Stazione SA, Locarno 1972, pp. 8, 10, 112, 131, 136, 150, 152, 172-173, 192, 196, 221, 228, 236-237, 252-253, 283-285, 288-289, 292 -293, 318-319, 353, 374-377, 398-400, 403-404, 425, 431.
Celestino Trezzini : Sornico. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 6, Sisikon - Steg. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1931, p. 452 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Official website of the municipality of Lavizzara
Data from the Lavizzara municipality
Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Lavizzara (Italian)
Prato-Sornico: inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
Federal inventory ISOS: Sornico (PDF; 3.6 MB)
Sornico on elexikon.ch

Individual evidence

↑ Celestino Trezzini: Sornico. ( Digitized version ).
^ Family name book of Switzerland
↑ 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 Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 264–265.
↑ Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Pp. 30, 282, 300, 324-325, 328, 332, 342, 375, 401, 403-404.
^ Marianne Rolle: Abraham Cotti. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 11, 2005 , accessed February 17, 2020 .
↑ Marco Marcacci: Pfiffer-Gagliardi, Bernardo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 1, 2010 .
↑ Marco Marcacci: Giacomo Pfiffer-Gagliardi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 14, 2008 , accessed February 17, 2020 .

[1] Celestino Trezzini: Sornico. ( Digitized version ).

[2] Family name book of Switzerland

[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 Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 264–265.

[5] Martino Signorelli: Storia della Valmaggia. Pp. 30, 282, 300, 324-325, 328, 332, 342, 375, 401, 403-404.

[6] Marianne Rolle: Abraham Cotti. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 11, 2005 , accessed February 17, 2020 .

[7] Marco Marcacci: Pfiffer-Gagliardi, Bernardo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 1, 2010 .

[8] Marco Marcacci: Giacomo Pfiffer-Gagliardi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 14, 2008 , accessed February 17, 2020 .