Pomezia

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Pomezia
coat of arms
Pomezia (Italy)
Pomezia
Country Italy
region Lazio
Metropolitan city Rome  (RM)
Coordinates 41 ° 40 ′  N , 12 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 41 ° 40 ′ 11 "  N , 12 ° 30 ′ 6"  E
height 108  m slm
surface 107 km²
Residents 64,417 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 602 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 00071
prefix 0039 - 06
ISTAT number 058079
Popular name Pometini
Patron saint San Benedetto
Website Pomezia
Panorama of Pomezia
Panorama of Pomezia

Pomezia is an Italian city in the metropolitan city of Rome in the Lazio region with 64,417 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

Name and status

The name Pomezia derives from the ancient city of Suessa Pometia , which according to Pliny at the beginning of the 4th century BC. Was destroyed by the Volscore . This gave the name to the Tribus Pomptina . It is not certain whether Suessa Pometia was actually in the municipality.

The name Pomezia also recalls the ancient goddess of fruit Pomona . This also shows the city coat of arms.

Pomezia was the fifth city to be founded in the Pontine Marshes, which had been drained since 1930, after Littoria , Sabaudia , Pontinia and Aprilia . On October 1, 1937, the urban development plan for the foundation of the city was approved and the foundation stone was laid by Benito Mussolini on April 25, 1938 . Originally, the name Ausonia was planned after a historical, but not localized, city.

On October 29, 1939, the municipality of Pomezia was officially founded as an independent municipality in the province of Rome and separated from the municipality of Rome. On May 6, 1970, the municipality of Ardea was again spun off from Pomezia. On January 31, 2005, Pomezia received city rights.

geography

Location of Pomezia in the metropolitan city of Rome

Pomezia is 29 km south of Rome and 42 km northwest of Latina .

Pomezia is located in the northeast of the Pontine Plain between the Alban Mountains and the Tyrrhenian Sea . The landscape ranges from flat hills with deciduous forest in the northeast of the municipal area, to originally swampy depressions to the dune landscape along the coast. Today a large part of the landscape has disappeared due to urban sprawl. Only a cork oak forest south of the city center and the dunes between Torvajanica and Villaggio Tognazzi give an impression of the original landscape.

The districts of Pomezia are Campo Ascolano, Torvajanica and Villaggio Tognazzi along the coast and Borgo Santa Rita, Campo Bello, Campo Jemini, Campo Selva, Castagnetta, Cinque Poderi, Colli di Enea, Macchiozza, Martin Pescatore, Pratica di Mare , Santa Palomba , Santa Procula, Sedici Pini, Torvajanica Alta, Viceré and Villaggio Azzurro in the hinterland. The municipality extends over a height of 0 to 136  m slm

The community is located in earthquake zone 3 (little risk).

The neighboring municipalities are clockwise Rome , Albano Laziale and Ardea .

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history

In ancient times, the town of Lavinium was in the municipality .

After the Pontine Plain became marshy in the Middle Ages, the area was almost uninhabited. Only the small town of Pratica di Mare , founded by Lavinium instead of the Acropolis, remained inhabited.

After the Pontine Marshes had been drained, Mussolini personally laid the foundation stone for the new city of Pomezia on April 25, 1938. The city was mainly populated with poor farming families from northeast Italy. In 1944, Pomezia was bombed and badly damaged during Operation Shingle . In 1970 Ardea was spun off as an independent municipality. In 2005 Pomezia received city rights.

Population development

year 1881 1901 1921 1936 1951 1971 1991 2001 2011
Residents 321 504 787 1,327 3,842 19,040 37,512 43,960 56,377

Source ISTAT

politics

City tower of Pomezia

Fabio Fucci ( M5S ) was elected mayor in the runoff election on June 9 and 10, 2013 with 63.73% of the vote against Omero Schiumarini ( PD ). Since, according to the rotation principle of his party, he is no longer allowed to run for office after a term of office as municipal council and one term as mayor, Fucci entered the new election in 2018 with his own list of citizens. In the election on June 10, 2018, Fucci lost to Adriano Zuccalà ( M5S ), who was elected as the new mayor with 68.76% in the run-off election on June 24, 2018.

His party MoVimento 5 Stelle has the majority in the municipal council with 15 out of 24 seats.

Enrico De Fusco ( PD ) was elected mayor in May 2006 and confirmed in office in 2011. After a department head and two municipal councilors of the PD were arrested for corruption, Fusco lost the support of part of his coalition. On January 8, 2013, Fusco then announced his resignation. Whereupon the majority of the local council resigned on January 14th. On January 15, 2013, Serenella Bellucci was installed as acting mayor.

Mayor of Pomezia:

  • 1998–2001: Maurizio Aureli ( PPI )
  • 2001–2002: Antonio D'Acunto, Acting Mayor
  • 2002–2005: Stefano Zappalà ( PdL )
  • 2005–2006: Francesco Avellone, Acting Mayor
  • 2006–2013: Enrico De Fusco ( PD )
  • 2013: Serenella Bellucci, Acting Mayor
  • 2013–2018: Fabio Fucci ( M5S )
  • since 2018: Adriano Zuccalà ( M5S )

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows the ancient goddess of fruit Pomona .

Twin cities

Pomezia is linked to through town twinning

religion

The majority of the inhabitants of Pomezia belong to the Roman Catholic religious community. The city belongs to the diocese of Albano and has ten parishes.

Attractions

Borghese Castle in Pratica
The German military cemetery

On the territory of the municipality of Pomezia is the Pratica di Mare military airfield , which attracts numerous visitors from Italy and abroad to international events.

The Pratica di Mare district is a small medieval village following a castle from the 12th century.

The forest and nature reserve of Castelporziano borders to the northwest . Here is a residence and a recreation area of ​​the Italian President ( Tenuta Presidenziale di Castelporziano ).

Military cemetery

The German War Cemetery Pomezia is located on the eastern edge of the city directly on Via Pontina. 27,443 German soldiers are buried here. 6,491 of them died in 1944 during the fighting in Operation Shingle near Anzio and Nettuno . German soldiers who had died in southern and central Italy were later buried here. There are 3,700 graves with unknowns. The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge takes care of the cemetery .

Meeting between European Roma and Pope Paul VI.

On September 26, 1965, Pope Paul VI met in a tent town near Pomezia. and around 3,000 Roma who had come from all over Europe to be blessed by the Pope.

economy

It was only after the Second World War that the change from an agricultural center to an industrial city began. In Pomezia, mainly chemical industry companies such as Sigma-tau, Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson but also food production such as Fiorucci and defense electronics such as Northrop Grumman settled . Since the 1990s, the economy has been changing again to the service sector. Pomezia is also an important shopping city for a large catchment area that includes the south-eastern suburbs of Rome.

Web links

Commons : Pomezia  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Pomezia military cemetery  - 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. ↑ Philip . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV A, 1, Stuttgart 1931, Sp. 586 - Suessa Pometia.
  3. ^ Edward Herbert Bunbury:  Suessa Pometia . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.
  4. ↑ Thomas Köves-Zulauf, Pliny on the fall of the city of Pometia, University of Cologne (PDF; 6.8 MB)
  5. ↑ Homepage of the city , accessed on January 1, 2012 (Italian)
  6. ↑ Homepage of the city , accessed on January 1, 2012 (Italian)
  7. ^ Italian civil defense
  8. ^ Edward Herbert Bunbury:  Lavinium . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.
  9. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT . Population statistics from the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, as of December 31, 2011.
  10. ^ Information from the Ministry of the Interior
  11. ^ Information from the Ministry of the Interior
  12. ^ Information from the Ministry of the Interior
  13. ^ Valeria Costantini: Pomezia, fine corsa per il sindaco Pd. Corriere della Sera , January 8, 2013, accessed January 24, 2013 .
  14. ↑ Pomezia, si dimettono quindici consiglieri comunali. Il Faro, Quotidiano Telematico, January 14, 2013, accessed January 24, 2013 .
  15. ↑ Il Commissario Prefettizio. City of Pomezia, January 15, 2013, accessed January 24, 2013 .
  16. ↑ Homepage of the city , accessed on July 27, 2013 (Italian)
  17. ^ Diocese of Albano (Italian), accessed December 20, 2015
  18. ^ Internet site of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (work of the Volksbund and description of the war cemetery in Pomezia) .
  19. ↑ see also mention of the meeting on www.kath.net
  20. ^ Text of the Pope's sermon at Mass (Italian) on the Vatican website
  21. ^ Lecture by Gernot Haupt at the beginning of the Roma pastoral
  22. ↑ The meeting was organized by the Catholic priest Bruno Nicolini († 2012) from the Community of Sant'Egidio . Page about the death of Nicolini
  23. ↑ The German photographer Rose von Rad was in the tent city for three days and photographed numerous people. A selection of her photos was published in the FAZ in 2012. Johanna Adorján : In the heart of Europe, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung November 3, 2012, page Z3