Madonna del Monte (island)
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| Waters | Venice lagoon | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 28 '42 " N , 12 ° 23' 45" E | |
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| surface | 0.572 2 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 1 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Madonna del Monte is an uninhabited island in the Venice lagoon . It is located on a canal between Mazzorbo and San Giacomo in Paludo , which continues towards Murano. This canal that starts north of the historic center of Venice is called Scomenzera San Giacomo . The double island Madonna del Monte has an area of 5,722 m². A smaller island belongs to the island, which was connected to the main island by a headland, but which is now under water. From 1303 to 1432 there was a Benedictine monastery, then a hermitage, and finally a small church was built in 1712, which gave the island its name. With Napoleon the island went into the military, it became an ammunition depot. The church fell into disrepair, the island broke in two.
history
Excavations have shown that the island was already inhabited in Roman times. The remains of a wooden building and a row of amphorae more than 10 m long were found.
On the island was from 1303 to 1432 a small, dedicated to St.. Nicholas of Bari consecrated Benedictine monastery , which was named San Nicolò della Cavana received. It was located on the northeastern edge of what is now the island of Cavane. The typical Venice shelters for boats, for example under bridges, but also at the places where the traghetti cross the Grand Canal. The monks went to Santa Caterina on Mazzorbo on the basis of a decree of Filippo Paruta, the Bishop of Torcello of July 15, 1432. The island became a palude again until 1648 Santa Catarina left the land to some religious who followed the rule of St. Paul followed, the first hermit. But they also gave up the island later.
It was not until 1712 that the Senate, at the suggestion of the Venetian Piero Tabacco, again built a small church financed by alms, which he dedicated to Santa Maria del Rosario. A small brotherhood that he founded also settled there. Since then the island has been given the name Monte del Rosario or Madonna del Monte . The painter Francesco Tironi drew the island with its church in 1779.
In 1806 Napoleon dissolved the monasteries in Venice and the island came into the hands of the army. In the middle of the 19th century, the small building fell into disrepair and it was used as an ammunition store, as happened many times during this period. Meanwhile, erosion has torn the island in two. Today it is privately owned. In memory of the past, a small altar with a portrait of Mary was built on a wall.
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Remarks
- ↑ Ernesto Canal : Archeologia della laguna di Venezia, 1960-2010 , Cierre, 2015, p. 276.
- ↑ Ernesto Canal : Archeologia della laguna di Venezia, 1960–2010 , Cierre, 2015, p. 275 f.
- ↑ Giuseppe Boerio : Dictionnaire del dialetto Veneziano , Venice 1829 S. 115th
- ↑ Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni , Vol. XCI, Venice 1858 S. 576th