Abejar

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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Castile LeonCastile and León Castile and León
Province : Soria
Comarca : Comarca de Pinares
Coordinates 41 ° 48 ′  N , 2 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 48 ′  N , 2 ° 47 ′  W
Height : 1140  msnm
Area : 23.43 km²
Residents : 297 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 12.68 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 42146
Municipality number  ( INE ): 42001
administration
Website : Abejar

Abejar is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) with 297 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the northwest of the Spanish province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile-León .

Location and climate

The place Abejar is located in the plateau interspersed with smaller mountain ranges, hills and rocks in the northwest of the province of Soria at an altitude of approx. 1140  m . The distance to the eastern provincial capital Soria is approx. 27 km (driving distance). The climate is rather moderate because of the altitude; Rain (approx. 600 mm / year) falls mainly in the winter half-year.

Population development

year 1857 1900 1950 2000 2017
Residents 645 692 867 359 318

The increasing mechanization of agriculture as well as the abandonment of small farms and the resulting loss of jobs have contributed greatly to the significant population decline since the middle of the 20th century.

economy

For centuries the place served as an important trade, craft and service center for the rural villages and farmsteads in the area. It was also an important station in the system of trade and livestock routes ( Cabaña Real de Carreteros ) in northern Spain. Today tourism in the form of renting out holiday homes (casas rurales) plays a not insignificant role for the town's income.

history

After the Arab-Moorish conquest , large areas in the north of the Iberian Peninsula were depopulated . Despite the early 10th century under the Castilian Count Gonzalo Téllez and then in the second half of the 11th century under Alfonso VI. For the time being, the reconquest ( reconquista ) , which culminated in the capture of the city of Toledo, some 200 kilometers further south (1085), was still in the hands of the Moors at the end of the 11th century and was only taken over by the Moors in 1128 Troops of Alfonso I recaptured. After the resettlement by Christians from the north, the place received city rights in 1304. Abejar was on the northern Spanish part of the Camino de Santiago , which led from Catalonia ( Barcelona ) via Aragón ( Saragossa ) to Castile ( Burgos ), where it merged with the main route ( Camino Francés ) .

San Juan Bautista Church

Attractions

  • The parish church ( Iglesia de San Juan Bautista ) made of stone is a single-nave building in the transitional style between the late Gothic and the Renaissance . While the west tower of the church, which is slightly downgraded several times but is otherwise undivided, with its accompanying round stair tower appears massive and forbidding, the portal on the south side impresses with its elegant Renaissance shapes with a fan rosette at the top. A sundial (reloj de sol) is carved into one of the buttresses on the south side .
  • The hermit church (Ermita de Ntra. Sra. Del Camino) , located in a slight valley basin, dates from the 18th century; it has a transept and a bell gable (espadaña) and is now used as a cemetery chapel.
Surroundings
  • A watchtower ( atalaya ) built from field stones from Moorish times is only preserved up to a height of about three meters. The approximately one meter thick outer walls enclose the approximately 3.50 m diameter interior.

Web links

Commons : Abejar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
  2. ↑ Abejar - population development
  3. ↑ Abejar - Atalaya