Rimella

Rimella ( Walser German Remmalju, Rimela Piedmontese ) is a Walser municipality with 135 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2012) in the Italian province of Vercelli (VC ), Region Piedmont.

Geography

The municipality comprises the basin of the land and water of the finished water and has no real center, but includes more than a dozen hamlets.

The districts are Chiesa ( Walser German zer Chilchu ) Grondo (basic ), Pianello (s d Äggu ) Prati ( en mat ), Riva ( Rivu ) Roncaccio Inferiore (s du Nidru ) Roncaccio Superiore (s dun Obru ), Sant 'Anna ( Tossu, to the trough, Erörtru ), Sant'Antonio (for Grazianu ), San Gottardo (ä Runt ), Sella ( Ŝchattal ), Villa Inferiore ( Niderdörf ) and Villa Superiore ( Oberdörf ).

The neighboring municipalities are Bannio Anzino, Calasca - Castiglione, Cravagliana, Fobello and Valstrona.

The municipality covers an area of ​​28 km ².

History and Language

The former Alpine Rimella and Rotunda were leased in 1255 by three men from the Swiss Valais, namely John of Visperterminen, Ancelmus son of Johannis de monte and Guillelmus of Saas- Balen from Chapter San Giulio Orta. Already a year later to join the three first nine other tenants also mostly from the Valais -derived heads of families. Even in the 1970s Rimella was therefore an exclusively Walser German speaking community, with administrative, school and church language have long been Italian.

Due to its weak economic structure, the mining community Rimella is now seriously threatened by depopulation (1631: 964 inhabitants; 1831: 1381 inhabitants; 1900: 1232 inhabitants; 1943: 905 inhabitants; 1971: 320 inhabitants; 2004: 142 inhabitants).