Sant'Angelo della Polvere
| Sant'Angelo della Polvere | ||
|---|---|---|
 |
||
| Waters | Venice lagoon | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 24 ′ 31 ″ N , 12 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ E | |
|
||
| length | 93 m | |
| width | 60 m | |
| surface | 0.524 3 ha | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Sant'Angelo della Polvere , formerly also Sant'Angelo di Concordia or Sant'Angelo di Caotorta, is an island in the Venice lagoon . It has an area of 5,243 m² and is not far from the island of San Giorgio in Alga in the Canale di Contorta.
history
From 1060 a Benedictine monastery was built , which belonged to the convent of San Nicolò. The order later turned it into a convent dedicated to the Archangel Michael . In 1474 the nuns were induced to move to the Santa Croce monastery on the Giudecca - probably because of their way of life, which was unacceptable in the eyes of the church and state. The monastery complex was taken over by the Carmelites of the Congregation of Mantua in Brescia in 1518 , who demanded strict seclusion and silence, a strictness that they had partially given up in 1462. In practice, the congregation was almost a separate order that existed until 1783.
In 1555 the Senate decided - until then the island was called Sant'Angelo di Caotorta , now della Polvere - to set up a warehouse for gunpowder there. On August 29, 1689, an explosion destroyed the buildings, the island remained uninhabited and was sometimes sarcastically called Sant'Angelo bruciato . Fortified military facilities and barracks existed in the 18th century and existed until the Second World War . They were part of a chain of fortifications in the west and south of the lagoon, which were in connection with the security efforts in the entire lagoon. The island has been uninhabited since then, and two of the three buildings no longer have a roof.
In January 1849, the tombstone of a Roman freedman named Caius Titurnius Gratus was found on the island.
literature
- Giorgio and Maurizio Crovato: Isole abbandonate della Laguna - Com'erano e come sono , Liviana, Padua, 1978, English: The Abandoned Islands of the Venetian Lagoon , San Marco Press, 2008.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ The article follows the English edition by Giorgio and Maurizio Crovato: Isole abbandonate della Laguna - Com'erano e come sono , p. 121f.
- ↑ On this congregation, which was the most important of the reform movements, cf. Edeltraud Klueting: Monasteria semper reformanda: Monastery and order reforms in the Middle Ages , Münster 2005, p. 105f.
- ↑ Venezia e le sue lagune , Venice 1847, p. 109.
- ^ Giuseppe Cappelletti: Storia della repubblica di Venezia dal suo principio sino al giorno d'oggi , vol. 4, Venice 1849, p. 196, note 1.
- ↑ Atti delle adunanze dell'IR Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice 1850, p. 31.