Pollenza

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Pollenza
Template: Infobox municipality in Italy / maintenance / coat of arms missingNo coat of arms available.
Pollenza (Italy)
Pollenza
Country Italy
region Brands
province Macerata  (MC)
Coordinates 43 ° 16 '  N , 13 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 16 '4 "  N , 13 ° 20' 53"  E
height 341  m slm
surface 39.47 km²
Residents 6,417 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density 163 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 62010
prefix 0733
ISTAT number 043041
Popular name Pollentini
Patron saint John the Baptist (June 24th)
Website Pollenza
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Pollenza is an Italian commune ( comune ) with 6417 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Macerata in the Marche . The municipality is located about 9 kilometers west-southwest of Macerata between Potenza and Chienti .

history

The place is thought to have originated around 1000 as Pollentia , after the previous settlement of the same name was destroyed. In honor of Milon , the place was also temporarily called Montemilone . There is still a bridge from Roman antiquity in the village. Its construction date is unknown.

After Italy entered the war in June 1940, the fascist regime established an internment camp ( campo di concentramento ) for women in Pollenza . The internees were housed in Villa Lauri , a large country house in the hamlet of Santa Lucia .

The first internees were Italian anti-fascists and members of “hostile nations” (mainly England and France ); in 1942 many Yugoslav women joined them. There were also a few Jewish foreign women in Pollenza.

After the temporary closure, the camp was reopened in January 1944 under the RSI regime . On February 29, 1944 there were still 46 internees in the camp (23 men, 21 women, 2 children). In mid-March a partisan squad attacked the property; 6 internees escaped. On March 31, 1944, the German police transferred the last Jewish internees who were last present at Villa Lauri to the Fossoli di Carpi concentration and transit camp , from where they were deported on one of the next transports to Auschwitz-Birkenau .

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

Commons : Pollenza  - 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. Klaus Voigt, Refuge on Revocation. Exil in Italien 1933-1945 , Vol. 2, Stuttgart 1993 (Klett-Cotta), pp. 61-62; Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, I campi del duce. L'internamento civile nell'Italia fascista (1940-1943) , Torino 2004 (Einaudi), pp. 189-190.