Aroche

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Aroche municipality
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Aroche (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Andalusia
Province : Huelva
Comarca : Sierra de Huelva
Coordinates 37 ° 57 ′  N , 6 ° 57 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 57 ′  N , 6 ° 57 ′  W
Height : 400  msnm
Area : 498.44 km²
Residents : 3,073 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 6.17 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 21240
Municipality number  ( INE ): 21008
administration
Website : Aroche

Aroche is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) with 3,073 inhabitants (as of 2019) in the northwest of the southern Spanish province of Huelva in the autonomous community of Andalusia .

location

The place Aroche is on a ridge surrounded by brooks (arroyos) in the western part of the Sierra Morena near the border with Portugal and a good 130 km (driving distance) north of the port city of Huelva at an altitude of approx. 380 to 450 m above sea level. d. The climate in winter is temperate, in summer it is warm to hot; the low amounts of precipitation (approx. 585 mm / year) fall - with the exception of the almost rainless summer months - distributed over the whole year.

Population development

year 1857 1900 1950 2000 2016
Residents 3,596 4,748 6,763 3,503 3.157

The significant population decline in the second half of the 20th century is essentially due to the mechanization of agriculture and the associated loss of jobs.

economy

While the surrounding area was largely agricultural for centuries, small traders, craftsmen and service providers of all kinds also settled in the village.

history

Archaeological remains from the Neolithic Age have been discovered in the municipality . In Roman times , the place, which was then called Turóbriga , later Arucci and even had a small amphitheater , had the right to mint its own coins. In the course of the reconquest ( reconquista ) of the former Christian areas in the south of the Iberian Peninsula from the hands of the Moors , the place near the historically disputed border with Portugal was taken around 1230 by the troops of the Portuguese King Sancho II (r. 1223–1247 / 8), but fell to Castile at the end of the century under Sancho IV .

Interior of the church

Attractions

  • The castle (castillo) , built by the Almohads around 1200 on the site of the Roman amphitheater, was rebuilt and expanded in the 13th and 14th centuries. Large parts of the courtyard have been occupied by a bullring since the early 19th century .
  • The place was from a three-sided city wall from the 14th / 15th. Century, the remains of which are still visible.
  • With the construction of the three-aisled Iglesia de Nuestra Sra. de la Asunción was started in 1483, but work dragged on until the mid-16th century; the western yoke remained unfinished. All three naves are ribbed ; The altar retable, which was only made in 1835, is particularly worth seeing .
  • Not far from the church is a rosary museum with over 2000 exhibits from all over the world.
  • The Museo arqueológico is located in three rooms of the former Hieronymites' convent. The first two rooms show finds from the Roman era of the place; the third room presents finds from prehistory to early modern times.
Ermita de San Mamés
Surroundings
  • The construction of the Ermita de San Mamés (sometimes also known as San Pedro de la Zarza ) , located about 5 km north of the town on the Río Chanza near the ancient city of Turóbriga , dates back to the time of Christian repopulation ( repoblación ) in the 13th and 14th . Century back; it is one of the oldest (preserved) churches in Andalusia. On the inner walls of the three-aisled church, which is covered by a wooden roof, there are frescoes from the 15th century. During a plague epidemic in the 17th century, the building was used as a hospital.

Web links

Commons : Aroche  - 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. ↑ Aroche - map with altitude information
  3. ↑ Aroche - climate tables
  4. ↑ Aroche - population development
  5. ↑ Aljucén - history etc.
  6. ↑ Aroche - Castle
  7. ↑ Aroche - city wall
  8. ^ Aroche Church
  9. ↑ Aroche - Rosary Museum
  10. ^ Aroche - Archaeological Museum
  11. ↑ Aroche - Turóbriga and Ermita de San Mamés
  12. ↑ Aroche - Ermita de San Mamés