Albinea

Albinea
Country	Italy
region	Emilia-Romagna
province	Reggio Emilia  (RE)
Local name	Albinèa
Coordinates	44 ° 37 '  N , 10 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 37 '0 "  N , 10 ° 36' 0"  E
height	166  m slm
surface	44 km²
Residents	8,836 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	201 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	42020
prefix	0522
ISTAT number	035001
Popular name	Albinetani
Patron saint	San Gaetano
Website	Albinea municipality

Albinea is an Italian municipality with 8,836 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Reggio nell'Emilia , region Emilia-Romagna , which is on the southern edge of the Po Valley , about 60 kilometers west of Bologna and about nine kilometers south of Reggio nell ' Emilia is lying.

geography

Albinea - Montericco

Albinea was first mentioned in a document in 898 and today covers an area of ​​44 km². The current municipality consists of the three former villages and today's districts Borzano , Montericco and Albinea . The latter, in turn, is divided into the other districts of Fola , Botteghe and Broletto in addition to Chiesa Albinea . Borzano is the oldest part of today's Albinea. Montericco is also the name of one of the mountains that surround the town from the southwest and, as harbingers of the Apennines, reach a height of up to 470 meters. The highest point there is called La Vedetta . The lowest point measured at sea level is 80 meters ( Ca 'Bianca )

history

Former town hall of Albinea (demolished 1970)

Albinea was first mentioned in 980 in a document signed by Emperor Otto II . In 1077 King Henry IV made his penance to Canossa in the immediate vicinity . Albinea belonged to the domain of Mathilde von Canossa . The Manfredi family ruled the area from the 14th to the 18th century. In neighboring Reggio nell'Emilia, the republic of Cispadania in 1797, based on the example of the French Revolution , created a flag from the colors green, white and red , which became the tricolor model of today's Italian flag. 1860 became a free municipality with the Italian unification under Garibaldi Albinea.

From September 1943 Albinea belonged to the fascist puppet state Italian Social Republic under the military protection of Germany , with which the dictator Benito Mussolini , who had previously been disempowered in Rome, came to power again in the northern part of Italy. In 1944, at the end of the Second World War , German Wehrmacht soldiers were stationed in the Villa Rossi in Albinea . Five of these took up contact with the Italian resistance movement, the Resistancea , in order to end the war they had lost more quickly. The five soldiers (Hans Schmidt from Berlin-Treptow , Erwin Bucher, Martin Koch, Erwin Schlünder and Karl-Heinz Schreyer) were legally executed after betraying their goals. The pastor of Albinea at the time, Don Alberto Ugoletti, prevented the unnamed burial of the dead and kept a diary of what had happened. The events that became known later prompted the city administration to posthumously grant the five German soldiers honorary citizenship after the end of the Second World War. From this event, a town partnership developed from the mid-1990s to a German municipality, the Berlin district of Treptow (today the district of Treptow-Köpenick ). The previously unnamed forecourt of the Grünau Peace Church was given the name Don-Ugoletti-Platz on June 6, 2008.

Economy and Infrastructure

The community is mainly characterized by agriculture and agricultural industry ( Parma ham , Parmesan , Lambrusco - wine ).

Town twinning

The municipality of Albinea has had an active twinning with the Treptow-Köpenick district of Berlin since 1997 .

Personalities

Achille Maramotti (1927–2005), Italian entrepreneur in the fashion industry and banker

Web links

Commons : Albinea  - 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. ↑ Homepage of partner-tk.de with comprehensive information about the events of the World War and the people involved ( Memento from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )