Vogorno

Vogorno

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Ticino Ticino (TI)
District :	Locarno districtw
Circle :	Verzasca district
BFS no. :	5135i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	6632
Coordinates :	709 667 / 119832 coordinates: 46 ° 13 '16 " N , 8 ° 51' 36" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and nine thousand six hundred sixty-seven / 11983246.221 8.86 461
Height :	461 m above sea level M.
Height range :	455–2442 m above sea level M.
Area :	23.90 km²
Residents:	282 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	12 inhabitants per km²
Vogorno
Location of the municipality
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« Rustici » in the Berzona fraction

Vogorno and Verzasca Valley

Vogorno is a municipality in the Verzasca Valley in the Verzasca district . It belongs to the Locarno district in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .

geography

Vogorno is located on the Lago di Vogorno reservoir , above the Selvatica dam. Part of the village was flooded when the lake was dammed in the summer of 1965; the houses were rebuilt on the slope above the lake, see list of places in Switzerland flooded by reservoirs . Vogorno includes the districts Berzona , Sant'Antonio , San Bartolomeo , the Almen Odro , Sponda , Costapiana , Monda and Alp Bardughe which are located on sunlit slopes.

history

The village was first mentioned in 1234 as Vegorno and has been an independent municipality since 1235. Corippo belonged to the municipality until 1822 . The church of San Bartolomeo, the main church of the Verzasca Valley, was built in 1235. From the 16th century emigration began, which from 1850 led to overseas. Between 1961 and 1965 the dam was built for Lake Vogorno, one of the highest in Switzerland.

population

Population development
year	1596	1850	1900	1950	1970	2000	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2016	2017
Residents	600	658	661	364	252	304	283	292	276	270	277	272	279

Attractions

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

Sacred buildings

Parish church of Sant'Antonio in the district of Sant'Antonio
Church of San Bartolomeo in the district of San Bartolomeo. In the church, the oldest in the whole valley, there are curious frescoes in the Byzantine style (from circa 1250).

Civil buildings

Vacation rental, architect: Livio Vacchini
Cazza stone bridge
Sant'Antonio fountain.
Hay museum in the district of Odro

Paleontological finds

Shell stone, called El sass di strioi in the Berzona district (515 m above sea level)
Various shell stones in the Alpe Borgna district (1912 m above sea level)

Culture

Museo del fieno selvatico in the district of Odro

Personalities

Giacomo Pancrazio Bustelli (born March 8, 1716 in Locarno , † October 7, 1771 in Vogorno), priest, superior of the diocesan missionaries
Niele Toroni (born March 15, 1937 in Muralto ) (town Vogorno), painter, draftsman, active in Paris

literature

Piero Bianconi : Vogorno. In: I dipinti murali della Verzasca. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1934, pp. 13, 15, 63.
Virgilio Gilardoni : Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino. La Vesconta, Casagrande SA, Bellinzona 1967.
Simona Martinoli u. a .: Vogorno. In: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007.
Giuseppe Mondada: Vogorno. In: Catalogo delle pitture murali fino alla metà dell'Ottocento. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1934, pp. 87-89.
Daniela Pauli Falconi: Vogorno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 5, 2015 , accessed December 3, 2019 .
Johann Rudolf Rahn : I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino. Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, p. 284.
Carla Rezzonico-Berri: Valle Verzasca. La chiesa di San Bartolomeo di Vogorno. In: Bollettino della Società Storica Locarnese. Tipografia Pedrazzini, Locarno 1998, pp. 99-100.
Elfi Rüsch: I monumenti d'arte e di storia del Canton Ticino. Distretto di Locarno IV: La Verzasca, il Pedemonte, le Centovalli e l'Onsernone. (= The art monuments of Switzerland. Volume 123). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History SKG. Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-084-3 , pp. 28–41.
Celestino Trezzini : Vogorno. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 7, Vilarzel - Wallimann. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1934, p. 289 ( digitized version ).