Title: The church bell tower "trapped" in the waters of Lake Resia in Italy - Abandoned Spaces
Headings: The church bell tower “trapped” in the waters of Lake Resia in Italy
The church bell tower “trapped” in the waters of Lake Resia in Italy
Content: The plan included generating electricity for the region, but also submerging of a few towns and villages. That was the unpleasant reality of the new and progressive age of electricity. The old life in the valley died and a new one was born. Lake view with sunken church spire. Author: Markus Bernet – CC BY-SA 2.0
The residents that lived in the valley protested fiercely, but their efforts to stop the project were fruitless. The construction of the dam started in 1940. World War II stopped the construction works for a while and it was finally finished after the war, in July 1950. Thousands of years of history going back to Roman times was lost forever. The entire town of Graun (Curon in Italian), parts of the town of Reschen and the small villages of Arlung, Piz, Gorf, and Stockerhofe disappeared underwater.