Roana

Roana
Country	Italy
region	Veneto
province	Vicenza (VI)
Local name	Robaan or Rowaan
Coordinates	45 ° 53 ' N , 11 ° 28' E Coordinates: 45 ° 52 '35 " N , 11 ° 27' 46" E
surface	78.5 km²
Residents	4,228 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	54 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	36010
prefix	0424
ISTAT number	024085
Popular name	Roanesi / German dialect: Robaanar
Patron saint	Saint Justina (Santa Giustina)
Website	Roana

The community Roana ( Cimbrian : Robaan or Rowaan, German outdated: Rain or Rovan ) is a scattered settlement with 4228 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) on the plateau of Asiago in the province of Vicenza in northeast Italy. It belongs to the German language island of the seven municipalities .

The language island

According to a study from 2012, there are still a few speakers in the Mitteballe (= Mittewald) fraction who use Cimbrian primarily in memory contexts.

In the Cimbrian dialect, the community is called Robaan or Rowaan . In addition to the Italian names, the parliamentary groups also have German names: Camporovere (Cimbrian Camparübe ), Canove (Roan), Cesuna (Ka-Sune), Mezzaselva (Mittebald / Toballe), Roana (Robaan) and Treschè Conca. Although Roana is the main town of the municipality, the seat of the municipality is in the Canove fraction.

history

During the First World War, the front between Austria and Italy ran very close. After this time, the population of the main town decreased steadily from almost 8000 to the beginning of the 80s.

Culture

Interest in the Cimbrian-German tradition has been revived since the 2000s. Since 2006 there has been the Hoga Zait ("High Time"), a festival dedicated to the Cimbrian culture. In 2007 an office was opened dealing with the Cimbrian language and culture.

Attractions

The high stone bridge of Roana (ponte di Roana) was built around 1906 with great technical difficulties, destroyed in the Second World War and then rebuilt. The small artificial lake in the Spilleck district has been attracting bathers since it was developed as a bathing lake.

The district of Canove in Roana

Personalities

Benito Gramola , historian and writer
Enrico Fabris , Olympic speed skater

Community partnerships

Germany Velden near Landshut, Bavaria
Italy Poiana Maggiore , Vicenza Province

literature

Agostino Dal Pozzo: Storia del comune di Roana. In: Vita di Giazza e Roana 26, 1976, pp. 35-37.
Bernhard Wurzer: The German language islands in Northern Italy. Athesia, Bozen 1998.

Web links

Seven Churches - Site in Italian and Cimbrian

proof

↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
↑ Several authors: Dizionario di toponomastica. Storia e significato dei nomi geografici italiani. Garzanti, Milano 1996, p. 542.
^ Stefan Rabanus: Language contact on the "Brenner Line". Pre-articles, partitive pronouns and subject pronouns in Romance and Germanic-German varieties. In: Michael Elmentaler, Markus Hundt, Jürgen Erich Schmidt: German dialects. Concepts, problems, fields of action. Files of the 4th Congress of the International Society for the Dialectology of German (IGDD) (= Journal for Dialectology and Linguistics. Supplements. Volume 158). Steiner, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 415-433.

[1] Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.

[2] Several authors: Dizionario di toponomastica. Storia e significato dei nomi geografici italiani. Garzanti, Milano 1996, p. 542.

[rabanus-3] Stefan Rabanus: Language contact on the "Brenner Line". Pre-articles, partitive pronouns and subject pronouns in Romance and Germanic-German varieties. In: Michael Elmentaler, Markus Hundt, Jürgen Erich Schmidt: German dialects. Concepts, problems, fields of action. Files of the 4th Congress of the International Society for the Dialectology of German (IGDD) (= Journal for Dialectology and Linguistics. Supplements. Volume 158). Steiner, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 415-433.