Linopoti historical administrative center

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Part of the former Italian administrative center (from the southeast)
View from the north
Outbuildings

The Linopoti Historical Administrative Center was built in 1936 as part of the Linopotis settlement (then known as Anguillara ). The administrative center is a listed building.

history

The island of Kos was occupied by Italy from 1912 to 1943 , which ended the 400-year rule of the Ottoman Empire over Kos and the very extensive self-government of the island. The Italian administration envisaged a long-term change to the existing structures on the islands of the eastern Aegean (see: Italian Aegean Islands and Dodecanese ) belonging to their territory .

Another measure was the agrarian colonization on the islands, as part of which two rural settlements were founded on Kos in 1936 for Italian settlers: Lambi and Anguillara (now called Linopotis ) as well as modern structures and waterworks, irrigation and drainage networks , etc. . This measure also served to reduce unemployment . As part of these plans, the then modern Italian administrative center was built in Linopotis.

However, Italian jurisdiction on Kos ended after a few decades with the occupation of the island of Kos by Nazi Germany in October 1943. In May 1945, British troops conquered the islands. The presence of the Italians as an occupying power in the administration ended with the occupation by the Allies .

After the Dodecanese were handed over to Greece in 1947, the Agios Alexandros Philippiados children's settlement ( Παιδούπολη Pedoúpoli in the sense of 'children's town') and an agricultural school were established in this former Italian administrative center. Children between the ages of 4 and 16 who were particularly affected by the consequences of World War II (e.g. without parents) were accommodated and cared for in the children's settlement . This children's settlement was in operation from around 1950 to around 1965.

In the early 2000s, the former Italian administrative center was assigned to the Greek army.

Administrative center building

The buildings of the Linopoti administrative center were originally organized in individual units ( clusters ). The units consisted of administration and service areas. These were e.g. E.g .: the town hall, police, secret police, the fascist party office, school, handicraft businesses etc., with the central access via a junction from the main road from Kos to Kefalos. The central square lies between these clusters. Outside the building complex of the administrative center was the church of Agios Pavlos (Αγιος Παυλος Λινοπότι) and the residence of the Italian governor of Kos.,

Future use

The civil society reasonable reuse of the former Italian administrative center has been considered on Kos for a long time. The establishment of an initial reception hotspot for refugees failed in 2015 due to popular resistance.

Specifically, a first detailed study by the architect Efi Anagnostidou for the re-use of the administrative center as a multifunctional center for the entire island of Kos was prepared in 2016 and presented in 2017. The aim is that the architectural heritage is preserved as far as possible for future use. A multifunctional center could e.g. B. an agri-economic museum, event and conference rooms, educational facilities, recreational facilities for children and adults, sports facilities, sales rooms for local products and the like. This subsequent use would thus correspond to the original cluster concept of the administrative center under Italian rule.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Decision of December 2014 to designate this administrative center as a historical site (Article 16 of Law 3028/2002 in conjunction with Decision GDMTE / IMF / 326901/36386/729 / 16-12-2014).
  2. ↑ The style of the architecture was also adapted to the ideas of the new rulers and cleaned of “oriental influences” and based on the Roman Empire in connection with fascist “ideals” Italian Architects and Scholars in the Levant. The case of Rhodes and the Dodecanese Islands under the Italian Fascist Rule , p. 94.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Αφορά στην αξιοποίηση του κεντρικού πυρήνα του πρώην αγροτικού οικισμού "Λινοπότι» για δημιουργία ενός πολυ-λειτουργικού κέντρου με χαρακτήρα αγροτουριστικό, πολιτιστικό και εκπαιδευτικό , Website: stathmosnet.gr of 27 January 2017th
  4. ↑ Kos Island, The Massacre of Italian Officers (1943) , June 30, 2016.
  5. ↑ History of the island of Kos ( Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , Greek) . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kosisland.org
  6. ↑ In 1936 Cesare Maria De Vecchi replaced the previous governor Mario Lago of the Italian Aegean Islands ( Dodecanese ) (Marc Dubin: The Dodecanese and the East Aegean Islands, p. 436ff).
  7. ↑ On December 9, 2015 it was z. B. 250 locals according to UNHCR, Europe's Emergency Response, Update # 13.
  8. ↑ On the Way of the Migrants (third episode) , June 1, 2016.
  9. ↑ Ακίνητο στην Κω παραχώρησε το υπουργείο Αγροτικής Ανάπτυξης για κέντρο υποδοχής προσφύγων , October 29, 2015.

Coordinates: 36 ° 52 ′ 11.9 ″  N , 27 ° 10 ′ 25.5 ″  E