San Clemente (Venice)
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| Waters | Venice lagoon | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 24 '36 " N , 12 ° 20' 6" E | |
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| length | 380 m | |
| width | 230 m | |
| surface | 6.79 hectares | |
| Highest elevation | 4 m | |
| Residents | 2 (2009) 29 inhabitants / km² |
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The island of San Clemente is located in the Venetian lagoon , south of the city of Venice and along the channel used by the ships heading for Malamocco .
history
Under the direction of the nobleman Pietro Gattilesso a church was built from 1131, in the middle of the 12th century Augustinian monks who belonged to the Patriarchate of Grado followed and built a hospital that accommodated pilgrims to and from the Holy Land. The last Augustinian monk remaining on the island lived there until 1432. After that, the church and monastery fell into disrepair until the monks from the Order of the Brothers of Mercy devoted themselves to rebuilding the church, monastery and hospital and to revitalizing the island. The Church has remained essentially as it was restored by the monks to this day.
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Famous secular and spiritual guests met at San Clemente. It was said that one of these, the ambassador of the Duchy of Mantua , brought the plague to the city. When the plague was over in the city, the Venetians built the church of Santa Maria della Salute to thank Our Lady .
1451 drove the future emperor Friedrich III. together with the doge, who had traveled to meet him in Chioggia , on the Bucintoro to San Clemente. From 1645 to 1810 the island was home to monks of the Camaldolese order until a decree by Napoleon repealed the order in Venice.
Far away from the city of Venice, a large powder magazine could be set up here without endangering it. In the middle of the 19th century, the Austrian administration of the city of Venice converted these buildings into a psychiatric clinic for women. A documentary film was made in 1980 with the title San Clemente: About a psychiatric hospital near Venice about the sanatorium in San Clemente, which was finally closed in 1992. This film was shown from May 7th to 14th, 2014 at the 29th Munich International Documentary Film Festival (DOK.fest).
A 5-star luxury hotel (San Clemente Palace) has been housed in the historic buildings on the island since 2003. The restored church was consecrated on April 15, 2003.
As of December 31, 2009, a permanent population of 2 was recorded. The island reaches a maximum height of four meters.
Publications
- Raymond Depardon, Sophie Ristelhuber: San Clemente. About a psychiatry near Venice. OCLC 839311502 (Contribution Bayern 3, October 18, 1990, also available on DVD OCLC 729796803 )
- Wiebke Willms: San Clemente. Storia di un'isola veneziana: uno dei primi manicomi femminili in Europe. Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani , Venice 1993, ISBN 3-799-54744-4 .
- Martina Carraro: L'isola di San Clemente a Venezia. Storia, restauro e nuove funzioni. Carsa, Pescara 2003, ISBN 8-850-10069-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Arte documento. Volume 6. Università di Udine, Udine 1992, p. 236. ISSN 1121-0524
- ↑ San Clemente Palace. La storia ( Memento of the original of August 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on sanclementepalacevenice.com, accessed May 16, 2014. (Italian)
- ↑ History - Our hospitable Island, from 1131 until nowadays ( Memento of the original dated November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from sanclementepalacevenice.com, accessed May 16, 2014. (English)
- ↑ San Clemente - "Freedom heals" on dokfest-muenchen.de, accessed on May 16, 2014.
- ↑ COMUNE DI VENEZIA. Servizio Statistica e Ricerca.
- ↑ Information: San Clemente on dawinci.istat.it
