Torre TI

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TI is the abbreviation for the canton of Ticino in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Torref .
Torre
Torre coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of TicinoCanton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District : Blenio districtw
Circle : Olivone Circle
Municipality : Blenioi2
Postal code : 6717
former BFS no. : 5047
Coordinates : 716 255  /  149461 coordinates: 46 ° 29 '11 "  N , 8 ° 57' 10"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty-five  /  149461
Height : 760  m above sea level M.
Area : 10.8  km²
Residents: 288 (December 31, 2005)
Population density : 27 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.comuneblenio.ch
Torre TI

Torre TI

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Torre TI (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on October 22, 2006

Torre is a village in the Blenio Valley and was an independent political municipality in the Olivone district , in the Blenio district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland . On October 22, 2006 it was merged with Aquila , Campo (Blenio) , Ghirone and Olivone to form the new municipality of Blenio .

geography

Torre is located in the upper Valle di Blenio , east of the Brenno river , 14 kilometers as the crow flies north of Biasca . The settlement is separated from the river bank by a hill in the valley floor. In addition to the clustered village of Torre ( 760  m above sea level ) and the adjacent settlement of San Salvatore to the north of it, the hamlet of Grumo (660 m) and part of Dangio (801 m above sea level) also belonged to the former community . The gorge of the Soia mountain stream runs between Torre and Dangio . Neighboring municipalities were Aquila , Malvaglia and Acquarossa from the north clockwise .

Aerial photo (1953)

history

The oath of Torre is an oath on parchment, received as a facsimile from the years 1225–1250. In 1182 it is stated that the population (meaning the “free farmers”) would no longer tolerate the building of new castles and the nobles' claim to power against their will and would prepare to destroy the existing castles. The da Torre family, who immigrated from the Como area, and other podiums (namely the da Giornico, da Contone, da Lodrino and da Gnosca) are threatened with disempowerment and perpetual expulsion. The pact came about at the instigation of Oberto de Terzago, the archpriest and envoy of the Milan Cathedral , in February 1182 and established an alliance between the inhabitants of the Valle di Blenio , the Valle Leventina and the Milan Cathedral Chapter. From the perspective of the Church with the aim of demands for community freedom of local small democracies ( vicinanze ) against the interests of the imperial mortgaged local gentry play out, especially since the church in the valleys pursued their own feudal interests.

The representatives of Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa on site, Guido and Artusio (Artuxius) da Torre, the two sons of Bailiff Alcherio da Torre, stood after the Emperor's defeat by the First Lombard League at the Battle of Legnano in 1176, lost in Torre, but refused to give up their castles. Artusio holed up in the Castello de Curterio , but he and his people could not withstand the siege. The castle was razed to the ground. The valley dwellers proceeded almost as radically with the Serravalle castle near Semione . The Torre oath had great symbolic significance for the later, at times extremely successful, attempts at local self-determination in the Blenio Valley and in Biasca . After the valley population had succeeded in legally and militarily breaking away from the rule of northern Italian aristocratic families, the Blenio Valley and thus also the population of Torre were bound to the protective power of Uri from 1495 with an oath of allegiance and were subject to the jointly exercised from 1503 to 1798 Rule of the cantons Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden . As part of the upheavals that affected Switzerland as a whole after the French Revolution , Torre in the Helvetic Republic briefly came under the administration of the canton of Bellinzona and is now part of the canton of Ticino, which was newly founded in 1803.

Parish mergers

Grumo was an independent municipality in the Olivone county , in the Blenio district . In 1928 Grumo, at that time the smallest municipality in terms of population in the canton of Ticino, merged to form the municipality of Torre, which in turn merged into the municipality of Blenio in 2006. The merger of the five municipalities in the upper section of the valley, which was decided by the cantonal parliament on January 25, 2005 and originally planned for spring 2006, was delayed by a complaint from the municipality of Aquila. After the Federal Supreme Court dismissed the appeal in April 2006, the way to the merger was clear.

Attractions

  • Parish church of Santo Stefano from 1732 in the district "Tor vec"
  • Villa Lina (Villa Pagani) from 1897, with riding stables from 1904
  • Ruins of the Castello de Curterio in the Ingerio district
  • Oratorio di San Salvatore on the ruins foundation
    A historical guide for the Pro Blenio association , cast by the Sigg company in Frauenfeld
  • Oratorio di Ingerio , 18th century
  • Above the village: remains of a "pagan house" ( Case dei Pagani ) in the form of a cave castle
  • Schalenstein (character stone) on the border of the former municipalities of Malvaglia and Aquila TI in the district of Cadabi (2580 m above sea level)
  • Between Torre and Dangio: Fabbrica di Cioccolato Cima Norma
    Church of Ingerio

population

Population development
year 1682 1798 1836 1850 1860 1870 1880 1888 1900 1910 1920 1930 1941 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2005
Residents 176 119 146 143 148 139 148 138 167 173 256 236 258 287 313 229 259 285 282 288

Personalities

  • Noble family da Torre
    • Alcherio da Torre (* around 1130 in Torre; † before 1204 ibid), Vogt in the Blenio Valley under Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa
    • Artusio da Torre (* around 1160 in Torre; † after 1204 ibid), Vogt in the Blenio Valley under Henry VI. (HRR)
    • Guido da Torre (* around 1165 in Torre; † after 1228 there), Vogt in the Blenio Valley under Emperor Heinrich VI. (HRR)
    • Reinher da Torre (* around 1167 in Torre; † November 9, 1209 in Chur ), son of Alcherio, brother of Guido, he was probably bishop of Chur from 1194
  • Enrico Orelli (* around 1190 in Locarno , first elected in 1213; † around 1239 in Torre), brother-in-law of Guido da Torre, castvogt and rector of Blenio
  • Maestro Martino de 'Rossi (* before 1430; † late 15th century), cook and cookbook author
  • Ambrogio d'Appiano (* around 1700; † after 1745), bell caster, cast the main bell of the parish church
  • Giuseppe Pagani (born April 28, 1859 in Torre; † December 21, 1939 ibid), hotelier in London , entrepreneur, took over the chocolate factory Chocolat Cima-Norma SA , mayor of Torre
  • Flavio Paolucci (* 1934), painter, sculptor, object and installation artist

literature

  • 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 , seconda serie, 148, Casagrande, Bellinzona 2010.
  • Piero Bianconi : Arte in Blenio. Guida della valle . SA Grassi, Bellinzona / Lugano 1944; same (ed.): Torre. In: Inventario delle cose d'arte e di antichità. Le Tre Valli Superiori. Leventina, Blenio, Riviera. Grassi, Bellinzona 1948, pp. 205, 207-208.
  • Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, ISBN 978-88-8281-353-6 .
  • Federico Bruni: I cioccolatieri. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona / Lugano 1946.
  • Mario Fransioli: Torre. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 10, 2017 , accessed December 29, 2019 .
  • Rinaldo Giambonini, Agostino Robertini, Silvano Toppi: Torre . In: Il Comune , Edizioni Giornale del popolo, Lugano 1971, pp. 287-296.
  • Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino . La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 572-574.
  • Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana . Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 81, 82, 88, 95, 96, 97, 98.
  • Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino . Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, p. 282.
  • Celestino Trezzini : Torre. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 7, Tinguely - Hungary . Attinger, Neuchâtel 1934, p. 22; unibe.ch (PDF).

Web links

Commons : Torre TI  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Hannes Maurer: Ticino valleys Ticino worlds - history and stories . Verlag NZZ, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85823-973-9 , p. 52 ff .
  2. Lothar Deplazes: Torre, Oath of. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 18th November 2015 .
  3. Celestino Trezzini: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland: Torre (oath of) . Ed .: Heinrich Türler et al. 7 (Saint-Gelin - Tingry). Paul Attinger Verlag, Neuchâtel 1931, p. 23 .
  4. a b c d Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Ed. Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte GSK, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 95–96.
  5. a b Patrizia Pusterla Cambin: Sentieri Storici della Valle di Blenio . Bellinzonese e Alto Ticino Turismo, Bellinzona, S. 44-49 .
  6. Gastone Cambin: Sui sentieri dell'Arte in Blenio . Ed .: Giorgio Bassetti. Ente turistico di Blenio / Museo della Valle di Blenio , Acquarossa / Lottigna (Chapter 17/4 [without page counting], edition from approx. 1985).
  7. ^ Franco Binda: Il mistero delle incisioni. Armando Dadò editore, Locarno 2013, pp. 106–108.
  8. a b Mario Fransioli: Torre. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 19th December 2016 .
  9. Luca Solari: Blenio: una valle a confronto . Salvioni arti grafiche, Bellinzona 1998, ISBN 88-7967-023-9 , p. 174 .
  10. ^ Lothar Deplazes: da Torre. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 18th November 2015 .
  11. Lothar Deplazes: Alcherio da Torre. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 26, 2012 , accessed February 24, 2020 .
  12. Lothar Deplazes: Alcherio da Torre. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 26, 2012 , accessed February 24, 2020 .
  13. ^ Lothar Deplazes: Guido da Torre. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 18, 2015 , accessed December 21, 2019 .
  14. Veronika Feller-Vest: Reinher da Torre. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 5, 2012 , accessed February 24, 2020 .
  15. ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Enrico Orelli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 5, 2009 , accessed February 24, 2020 .
  16. Ambrogio d'Appiano . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 43 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  17. Marco Marcacci: Giuseppe Pagani. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 12, 2008 .