tower-house Cà dè Borlenghi Vitriola in (XII) Vitriola's Court constituted the lower part of the Lands of the Abbey, and was placed in Go Dragon, in Val Dolo and little part in the Go Secchia.
The core of the court was Vitriola Vitriola, in the resort also known as the Court today, and there stood the castle of Vitriola, with its church of St. Andrew the Apostle.
Castle Vitriola was of no great importance as a defensive work, because situated in a flat, but it was large enough, and serves to hold the agricultural products harvested in the land by court employees, and residence of the steward. It consisted of three tall square towers, high at a distance of about twenty meters from each 'other, arranged in a triangle, joint and partially surrounded by other buildings around the compound wall, with entrance from the east [1]. The church of St.
Vitriola Andrew the Apostle, which stood below and to the east of the castle still exists and it is probably the same raised by the same Margravine Beatrice shortly before 1071, although largely rebuilt, enlarged and restored. It was originally a single nave, with wooden ceiling, with narrow choir, and externally clad in sandstone, squared and finished with a chisel. Had internal dimensions of about eighteen arms wide, and long arms around forty-four [2].
Between the castle and the church was strewn Vitriola a meadow, called Pra 'Donico or church lawn, now belonging to the parish benefice. In the midst of this lawn a fresh gushing and perennial spring called Fontana Donica, which still remains.
Vitriola The court then consisted of a core cultivated within a reasonable radius around the castle, but that extended especially in the area below the church.
The slope between the castle and the overlying Vitriola Montefiorino mountain was covered with thick undergrowth. The same mountain Montefiorino was likewise covered with dense forest, and, on it, no castle nor other house there in 1071 [3]. The jurisdiction of the court of
Vitriola extended into the villas Vitriola, Cerredolo, Cisana, Massa, Cornil, Mogno Montestefano, Rubbiano Gusciola, Farneta Costrignano, Susano, Savoniero.
between the courts' s Abbey, to Vitriola was the most populous and the most profitable.
Enjoying a mild climate, there is also abundantly cultivated the vine, and its forests were mostly of oak and chestnut trees. ***
Vitriola is remembered in the Chapter of Modena a scroll of 4 March 1054. In
This day, by act of the notary notarized Tamfredo in Modena, Modena bishop of Guibert granted for level Fredolfo son from another Fredolfo Vitriola, free man, a land Vitriola place in town called Carfagna [4], area of \u200b\u200bten acres, measured with the legitimate pole twelve feet high-quality arable land, grassland, fallow, woodland, for twenty-nine years, with annual rent of sixpence 's silver doilies, to be paid in March in Modena.
declaring that the land is because of the bishop of Modena, which had already been granted was in level at Girard, grandfather of the said Fredolfo. Witnesses to
' note are Robert, John, Rozzone, Ingezzone and Andrew. ***
Subsequently, the said body of land named or Carfagna Carfagna, is divided by half: they remain the children of Fredolfo appointed five acres on the side of the south, and the other five acres on the north side return to the bishop of Modena, who shall refer them to Hugh Vitriola.
fact, an act of the notary Ugo of June 1103, the bishop of Modena Dodone grants under precarious level and to Hugh son of the late Guido da Vitriola until the third generation, half of a piece of land work and wooded reason the diocese of St. Gemini Modena, located in area called Carfagno; extended this half five acres, bordered on the morning of the monastery from the ground dominica [5], at noon, the children of the late Fredolfo [6] to the west from the street, on the north by the Serra del Monte [ 7] for the annual fee of three denier bunting, to be paid each year in March.
L 'document is written in the Parish of Polinago, and carries the autograph signature of Bishop Dodone. Witnesses from Rainero Rancidoro, son of the late Bellincione Rozzone and Girard de Corvo / o.
Photo: tower house in Ca de Borlenghi Vitriola (XII)
From: Guido
Bucciari: Montefiorino and the lands of the Abbey of Frassinoro
Stab. Type-lit. Paul Foschi, C., 1985
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[1] Castle Vitriola still existed in 1320. - In 1442 no further mention is made of the castle, has almost certainly fallen, but only the towers. - After the towers collapsed or were demolished or. - At the beginning of last century, the residues of the three towers were lots about five meters in height, but retained the stone in time, dividing the ground floor from the first floor. - The section of the south tower it was then, around the year 1860, was used by Dr. Pacific Vandelli to rise above a house. - The sections of the other two towers, the worst in static conditions, were completely demolished during the past century.
[2] In 1841 the parish priest Don Giuseppe Carani enlarged, restored and partly remade the church, but preserving the main facade and part of the two side walls in their original condition.
- Near the church there, on the south side, a square tower five stories high, with a single order of all windows' top floor, and other planes equipped with loopholes. You access it by ' interior of the church. Served as a bell and once for house of monaco rector of the church. This old tower was later torn down in February 1875.
[3] All the historians and chroniclers of Frignano, lived far from the Lands of the Abbey, perhaps unaware that a house had existed in Vitriola, believed that the castle had been to Montefiorino Vitriola, why? 4ontefiorino was part his court. But the castles and Vitriola Montefiorino were two different things. Castle Montefiorino arose much later, when the castle of Vitriola was disappearing, owing to its imperfect Deila defensive function. When his castle Montefiorino, construct in place more suitable for the defense, rose to primary importance to Vitriola was neglected and unmaintained, collapsed.
[4] There is still this town and is found in the vicinity of today's home village of Fox.
[5] The land of the monastery of Frassinoro Donica, an official from the court of Vitriola.
[6] The children of that Fredolfo of which is a word in the document of 1054 quoted above.
[7] The greenhouse above the village that this Ca 'del Monte in Vitriola.
