History of the building lyapa (13 photos)

The story deals with one rare razdolbaystvo and its consequences, fortunately, almost forgotten today. To start the puzzle - What is missing in the photo?



answer - of course "Kampanilly»:



Images Kampanilly can be found even in the paintings by Canaletto. The tower was built in the 9th century AD, and was safely in place 1,000 years, until July 14, 1902 suddenly collapsed and turned into a mountain of dust. The tower, 92 meters high and 11 meters wide, has managed to fall so that no one was hurt in the square. Moreover, standing just a few meters of the Cathedral of San Marco and the Doge's Palace were not even affected. Kampanilla a vertically slid down harmlessly.

How it was:


At the Monday, July 7, 1902 th, Domenico Rupolo, architect of the Regional Council for the Conservation of Monuments, led reconstruction Lodzhetty - input part Kampanilly, suddenly finds a crack in its wall. At first he did not attach any importance to this, he has a few hours writing a report about her leadership, describing it as "a great danger that could turn into a disaster if no action is taken».
A day later, on Tuesday, Rupolo and his assistant Moresco find another crack in the north-east wall of the building, on Wednesday they see how it expands. On Thursday, the crack propagates upward along the windows on the north side of the bell tower.



It was only on Saturday, when the crack, reaching half the height of the tower is already evident, going to a commission consisting of the Director of the Council on Monuments Federico Barketa engineer Pietro Saccargia Cathedral and the chief engineer of the city Alberto Torri. Three important official investigating crack claim that the alarm in vain, crack is very old, and there is no danger.



However, as an interim measure until the end of the investigation, Berket proposes to consolidate the northern corner of the bell tower with steel cables.
On Sunday the "very old" crack reaches the belfry, ie almost the top of the tower. The Commission once again examined the place, goes to Venice and the prefect officially declares that there is no danger of falling, but some small fragments may suffer. The Prefect announced that a small crack in the bell tower is not harmful, and in any case only requires a couple of days to ban the rise of the bell tower and the ringing of bells.



On Monday, at half past five in the morning Rupolo already at the Belfry He sees that night crack greatly increased. He runs to the Saccargia shouting "Late!". Witnesses described a slight crackling fall within a few minutes, and then a strong hum, audible throughout the city, in the 9.47 am bell tower collapsed. Measures taken by the prefect, though, and did not save the bell tower, but have led at least to the fact that there were no casualties. The legend, however, says it is the bell tower itself did not want to kill the inhabitants of the city, the symbol of which it has been for 400 years. (right) famous, went round the world pictures of the tower fall, in fact, was one of the first successful examples of falsification of documentary photographs



The heart of the calm:

Another success, almost miraculously, was not hurt located near the Cathedral of St. Mark. Large marble boulder fell so well in the way of rolling in the tower of bricks that they were not able to hit and break the thin columns of the Temple. People began to say that the church has saved an angel, shown a decline in prayer at the central dveri.Cherez a few days after the crash debris was moved to the courtyard of the Palace of the Doges, and then gradually transported by barge to Cape Sabioni and solemnly buried there.



Later that evening when the tower collapsed, going to City Council. He decides unanimously to restore the tower in exactly the same form in which it existed all the previous centuries («Dov'era e com'era»).
This Council decision is approved by virtually all sectors of society, the few attempts to debate about other recovery options Kampanilly ridiculed and subjected to obstruction. Milan Academy of Fine Arts, announced a competition for the project of restoration of the tower, after a number of publications it stops - the "decision of the people must be made».



"If such a misfortune has happened, then why not give the opportunity to present and modern architecture in Venice?" - I asked the architect Otto Wagner in an article published Trieste newspaper "Piccolo". Wagner was ridiculed in the same newspaper. On April 25 1903 «Dov'era e com'era» sounds six times in the opening speech on the start of construction of a new Kompanilly, and exactly 9 years old, 25 April 1912, the same phrase is again the keynote opening of the restored bell tower.



I, unfortunately, could not find a normal bell tower construction pictures


podmom with a solemn parade of the flag, the shadow of the tower stretches to the left to the center, it is clear that the tent and the belfry have not built



The tower was built up to the belfry, about 1909y year.