Berzona

Berzona (Valle Onsernone )

Berzona is a locality; She was until April 15, 2001, a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton Onsernone in the district of Ticino in Switzerland. Then it merged with Loco and Auressio to the municipality Isorno. Im also located in the canton of Ticino, Val Verzasca, there is another place called Berzona that belongs to the local municipality Vogorno.

Geography

Berzona (Valle Onsernone ) is located in a surrounded by chestnut forests hillside dump on the road to Vergeletto and Comologno, about 15 km north-west of Locarno. Berzona itself consists of the lower village Seghellina and the car-free Oberndorf. Year-round live about 80 residents in both districts, most of them in the lower village.

After the Second World War, the churn of the native population increased. Several properties were sold to outsiders, and Berzona became the residence of famous personalities from the arts, especially in literature. , The Swiss writer Max Frisch lived and worked here, where he bought a house in 1964, until his death in 1991 his story The man in the Holocene plays in Berzona. At the cemetery at the entrance to the village, close to his home, will be remembered with a plaque to Max Frisch, the honorary citizen of the town.

Pictures

Grave stones of Alfred and Gisela Andersch

Typical stone house in Berzona

" Madonna delle Grazie " consecrated Oratorio del Marto, which, built in 1682

Plaque for Max Frisch, honorary citizen of Berzona

Personalities

• Max Frisch Berzona valued as a refuge: it is the place I know best, where I most feel at home, which is most familiar to me. Even if he is not so convenient.
• At the cemetery, the German writer Alfred Andersch and his wife, the painter Gisela Andersch are buried. Alfred Andersch lived from 1958 until his death in 1980 in Berzona, Gisela Andersch died in 1987 in Berzona.
• Also, the German -Swiss historian and writer Golo Mann lived here. His former house, which he built in 1961 as a holiday home, located above the village behind a chapel in a forest glade.

Attractions

• Parish Church of San Defendente,
• Rectory (1713 ),
• Houses Broggini ( 1589 ), (1688 ), ( 1727),
• In the district called " Matro " oratorio Beata Vergine delle Grazie " del Matro " ( 1671),
• In the district of " Seghellina " Oratory of Santa Maria Laurentana (1766),