Nogara

Nogara
Country	Italy
region	Veneto
province	Verona  (VR)
Coordinates	45 ° 11 ′  N , 11 ° 4 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  E
height	18  m slm
surface	38.9 km²
Residents	8,437 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	217 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	37054
prefix	0442
ISTAT number	023053
Website	Website of the municipality of Nogara

Nogara is a municipality in the Italian province of Verona , Veneto region , with 8,719 inhabitants (as of December 2010).

location

Nogara is just under 30 km south of Verona and about 20 km east of Mantua on the Tartaro River. The train station of Nogara is u. a. a station on the Verona – Bologna railway line . State road 12 runs through the village , which leads from Pisa to the Brenner Pass . It crosses the former state road 10 here . Nogara is thus a not insignificant transport hub .

Demographic development

history

The area of ​​Nogara was already inhabited by humans during the Bronze Age. The Olmo di Nogara necropolis , on a former arm of the Tartaro in the northwest of the city, which was used in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, testifies to this . The finds there belong to the Terramare culture . The Naue II finger-tongue sword discovered there in grave 41 is the oldest specimen of the Cetona type discovered so far in Italy and shows clear parallels to a sword from the 13th century BC that was discovered in Greek Mycenae . Chr. On. About one and a half kilometers south of it, a hoard with bronze objects from the late Bronze Age was discovered by chance in 1993 in the Pila del Brancón corridor . In the following four years a number of other bronze objects were found in the vicinity, some of them also ceramics, which either belong to the same or a second depot located very close by. The finds include a. at least nine finger-tongued swords of the Naue II type, a dagger and lance tips . The bronze weapons mostly showed deliberate damage or deformation. Most of the swords were bent in a U-shape.

In Roman times the place was on the Via Claudia Augusta , begun by Drusus and expanded and completed by Emperor Claudius , one of the most important Roman roads that connected areas north of the Alps with northern Italy. In 900 AD, King Berengar I allowed the construction of a castle ( Castello ), which chronicles from the 11th century tell of and which is now installed in the Palazzo Marogna designed by Michele Sanmicheli . Between 920 and 936 the monks leased houses in Nogara to people who, in return, were willing to defend the castle and the Chiesa di San Silvestro (Church of Holy New Year's Eve ) in the event of attacks by the Hungarians .

Under the rule of Mathilde von Canossa , Nogara belonged to the bulwarks to the left of the Po and was able to withstand attacks by Henry IV twice : in 1091 and 1095, when the city was besieged by troops from Verona, which Henry IV had recruited for some time before an approaching army of Mathilde forced the emperor to withdraw. In the period that followed, there were repeated battles among various lords over the fortress of Nogara, which historians from Verona in particular reported. In 1509 the castle was finally set on fire by the Spaniards and Burgundians and then gradually lost its importance.

In 1630 half of the population of Nogara died of the plague . During the Italian Wars of Independence , the city was not directly involved in the military and political events, but provided active support. The time of Italian fascism was characterized by socio-cultural stagnation and a purely agricultural economy, in which many day laborers were employed. In the 1950s there was an increase in unemployment due to the progressive fragmentation of large estates into small farms and the closure of the hemp mill. The result was a significant number of emigrants and thus a sharp decline in the population. The industrialization of the region in the 1960s and 1970s led u. a. to shifts in the social structure.

literature

Reinhard Jung: ΧΡΟΝΟΛΟΓΙΑ COMPARATA. Comparative chronology of southern Greece and southern Italy from approx. 1700/1600 to 1000 BCE Vienna 2006, pp. 148–150. (to the Bronze Age finds)

Web links

Article on the history of Nogara on the website of the municipality (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ Reinhard Jung - Mathias Mehofer: Mycenaran Greece and Bronze Age Italy. Cooperation, trade or war? Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 43, 2013, p. 176 f.
3. ^ Tilman Struve: Salierzeit im Wandel. On the history of Henry IV and the investiture controversy. Böhlau-Verlag, Köln-Weimar 2006, pp. 135, 141.