Vogorno
Vogorno | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Ticino (TI) |
District : | Locarno district |
Circle : | Verzasca district |
BFS no. : | 5135 |
Postal code : | 6632 |
Coordinates : | 709 667 / 119832 |
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 |
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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 | |||||||||||||
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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 ).
photos
Web links
- Data from the municipality of Vogorno
- Office for Statistics of the Canton of Ticino: Vogorno
- Federal inventory ISOS: San Bartolomeo (PDF; 754 kB)
- Vorgorno on the Tenero and Verzasca Valley Tourist Office website
- Vogorno: Inventory of cultural assets of the Canton of Ticino
- Vogorno on elexikon.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
- ^ Daniela Pauli Falconi: Vogorno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 4th November 2014 .
- ↑ 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 , p. 229.
- ↑ Franco Binda, Locarno 2013, pp. 196–197.
- ↑ Franco Binda, Locarno 2013, p. 16 (photo), 198–199.
- ↑ Museo del fieno selvatico
- ^ Ivan Cappelli: Giacomo Pancrazio Bustelli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 17, 2004 , accessed March 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Maddalena Disch: Niele Toroni. In: Sikart (as of: 2013)