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The origins

The origins of the local Agrarian Participation laughed them to that age where, to north of the way Emilia, there were only immense plaghe swampy and uncultivated, caused from the depression of the land invaded from waters of the rivers or to the next abandonment to the barbaric invasions that they cancelled, partially, the agricultural colonizations to work of the Roman. Around year Thousands the reclamations of the land from the great man, of the church and the rural communities began that acted in collective form in order to make forehead the wild nature of the zones to clear. Nowadays these forms of collectivities created from the collective dominion exercised from a part of the inhabitants of the six municipalities of the lowland exist still plain between the rivers Panaro and Sillaro: Nonantola, Sant'Agata, Saint Giovanni in Persiceto, Pieve of Cento, Villa Fontana and Cento. The descendants of the original families enjoy the property to take advantage of immense rural areas second regulations of various statutos but with common points to all. The beneficiaries of the lands are those who belong to the families that have taken the burden to clear the zones of the Municipalities, the plots of ground periodically come uniforms (in the event of Cento every 20 years) between having straight through election of the lotteries, in order to participate are necessary to respect the obligation of the incolato one, that is must reside in the common center of the Participation for a period that varied from two to eighteen antecedent years to the next one election.

The Cento Participation of and Pieve of Cento

Initially the two Cento participation of and Pieve were joined and go back, second the tradition, to the emphyteutic concessions made from the bishop of Bologna to the residents in the two centers beginning from XIII the century, even if there are points out already in XI the century, when in a swampy and woodland zone born the first inhabited group. In 1185 there is a first agreement stipulated with the Bishop of Bologna and the first formal concession of the Centopievese community is of 1253, thousand tornature of forest came dates in enfiteusi to the men of Hundreds from the bishop, with the engagement of remove trees and putting in cultivation, against the payment to the same bishop of tenth of the fruits and a pension in money. Contracts that subdivided the burdens to the single families, always under the control of the agency ollowed others then preplace: the Municipality. An other concession is attributed to the men of Hundreds from the church of Nonantola for concession of Matilde di Canossa, Trecentola (puts into effect it them Casumaro) came granted for half to the marquis of Este and for the other half to the bishop of Bologna in 1358, the men of then had it to Cento in "rinnovabile enfiteusi" every 20 years. According to an antecedent document, Trecentola came donated to the church of Nonantola from Bonifacio di Toscana, father of Matilde. A famous one: Casumaro (Trecentola) came date to Cento entire, probably already a symptom of rivalry between the two next communities to the division that came in 1376 with brands episcopal and ratified from the Pope in 1377. The separation of the territory of the Malaffitto (puts into effect it them Renazzo and Xii Morelli) comes made for 3/5 to the remaining Cento and 2/5 to Pieve. The participants having straight to the division of the two lands were the descendants males of the original families which they had been granted lands, the divisions happened every 20 years in distinguished form: equal years for Casumaro, odd number for Malaffitto. Already in 1267 but, the bonificatoria work of the zones of it is concluded before puts into effect them Corporeno and Buonacompra that the 1263 give comes assigned in "enfiteusi" of the duration of 29 years. A famous one: at the end of XII the century the reclamation work of the Centopievesi people dumb the name of Buonaffitto (Goodlands) in Malaffitto (no good lands) in order to emphasize the bad transaction stipulated for the difficult territorial reclamation works.

The reforms

It puts into effect them Participation is born from Lodo Giulianeo of 1484 (from the name of Giuliano della Rovere cardinal, future Pope Giulio II) that it resumes, after a momentary cancellation, the periodic redistribution of lands to the single ones you understood. The modern phase of the two participation goes back to the reforms of the statutos, for Hundreds between years 1928 and 1932. The reforms of 1932, with next modifications in 1967, only the norms that now are in use from the Centese participation, between the more important reforms the unification of the division of Casumaro and Malaffitto in the same year, aiming at the reduction of the division with a medium surface of 6000mq, and the number of the same ones that passed from 5000 to 2500. The appraisal of the land was introduced also, thus attenuating the effects of the election, with establishing three categories of same (optimal, good, the medium one), in such a way to medium forehead of 6000mq, had heads from 7000, 8000 and also 10000mq in lands more recent purchase and minor valorization. It came introduced also the possibility to opt on hand for a sum of money for those which they did not mean to use the land directly, putting it of the direct cultivators. Other norms gave the possibility to the participation to sell some lands on condition that the obtained sums were plowed back in the purchase of other plots of ground to value in division, this type of investments carried to the widening of the lands of the common patrimony from 1500 hectares of 1939 to the 1730 hectares of 1975. The purchases were made also in other municipalities, to Bondeno 19 have, Crevalcore 172ha, Vigarano Mainarda 66ha and Sant'Agostino 21ha.

Link

www.partecipanzacento.it (ufficial site)

www.partecipanzapieve.it (ufficial site)

partecipanza Nonantola (from Wikipedia)

partecipanza Villa Fontana (from Wikipedia)