Agnone (Molise)

Agnons
Country	Italy
region	Molise
province	Isernia  (IS)
Coordinates	41 ° 49 '  N , 14 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 48 '36 "  N , 14 ° 22' 44"  E
height	850  m slm
surface	96 km²
Residents	4,901 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	51 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	86081
prefix	0865
ISTAT number	094002
Popular name	Agnonesi
Patron saint	San Cristanziano
Website	Agnons
Agnons

Agnone is an Italian commune ( comune ) with 4901 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Isernia in the Molise region . The municipality is located about 26 kilometers northeast of the provincial capital Isernia and about 37 kilometers northwest of Campobasso . The municipality is located on the Verrino and Sangro rivers . It borders directly on the province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region .

history

The municipality was in ancient times settlement area of ​​the Samnites . About 8 kilometers north of Agnone was an important city of the Pentrer , probably the most important tribe of the Samnites. The former ancient city of Aquilonia , which was on the site of today's Agnone, was destroyed by Rome under Lucius Papirius Cursor around 293 BC. Agnone's tablet dates from the 3rd century BC .

The tablet of Agnone

This bronze plaque is written in the Oscar language . The content relates to gifts and offerings to certain gods.

During the time of the Lombards , Agnone enjoyed a certain importance around 1000 AD. The heyday lasted until the time of the Bourbons; its importance lost considerably with the unification of Italy. The high tax burden in particular led to an emigration from the region. In 1871 the community still had more than 11,000 inhabitants.

After Italy entered the war in June 1940, the fascist regime set up an internment camp ( campo di concentramento ) in Agnone . It was located in a former Benedictine monastery. 57 (1941) to 155 (1943) internees slept in sixteen bedrooms, mainly British and Czechoslovaks as well as foreign Jews from Germany and Austria. Later, Agnone only accepted travelers ( zingari ) from Yugoslavia who had escaped persecution by the Croatian Ustascha . On September 8, 1943, the inmates were allowed to leave the camp; some then joined the partisans.

Economy and Transport

Bells from the Marinelli foundry

The community is also known for the Marinelli bell foundry ( Pontificia Fonderia Marinelli ), whose origins go back to 1040. There is evidence that the Marinelli family has been casting bells since 1339.

The former Strada Statale 86 Istonia runs through the municipality .

Web links

Commons : Agnone  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, I Campi del duce. L'internamento civile nell'Italia fascista (1940-1943) , Torino 2004 (Einaudi), pp. 205-206; Klaus Voigt, Refuge on Revocation. Exile in Italy 1933-1945 (Volume 2), Stuttgart 1993 (Klett-Cotta), p. 70