Baides

Baides parish
Baides - aerial view
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile-La Mancha
Province :	Guadalajara
Comarca :	La Alcarria
Coordinates	41 ° 0 ′  N , 2 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 0 ′  N , 2 ° 47 ′  W
Height :	860  msnm
Area :	29.74 km²
Residents :	56 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	1.88 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	19295
Municipality number  ( INE ):	19047
administration
Website :	Baides

Baides is a town in central Spain and a municipality ( municipio ) with 56 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the province of Guadalajara in the autonomous region of Castile-La Mancha . The municipality belongs to the sparsely populated region of the Serranía Celtibérica and is located on the Ruta de la Lana , an old trade and pilgrimage route.

Location and climate

The approx. 860  m high place Baides is near the confluence of the Río Henares in the Río Salado in the extreme north of the Alcarria , a landscape in the north of the southern part of the Iberian plateau ( meseta ) . The provincial capital Guadalajara is approx. 65 km (driving distance) in a south-westerly direction; the worth seeing places Atienza , Sigüenza and Jadraque are within a radius of about 20 km. The climate in winter is temperate, while in summer it is warm to hot; the rather low amounts of precipitation (approx. 440 mm / year) fall - with the exception of the almost rainless summer months - distributed over the whole year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2019
Residents	322	425	541	80	56

Due to the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting loss of jobs in the countryside, the population of the municipality has declined sharply since the middle of the 20th century.

economy

The people of earlier centuries lived mainly as self-sufficiency from agriculture and livestock farming , whose durable products (cheese, sausage, animal skins and wool) could be exchanged or sold at traveling traders. Craftsmen and service providers were also based in the village. Baides has a train station on the electrified Madrid-Saragossa-Barcelona line.

history

Neither the Celts , nor the Romans , nor the Visigoths and Moors left usable traces on the municipality. The latter were in the second half of the 11th century by the army of King Alfonso VI. driven out of the region by León ( reconquista ) ; then the phase of new or resettlement ( repoblación ) began by Christians from many parts of the Iberian Peninsula . A written mention of the place name from the early Middle Ages is not known and so it is assumed that it originated in the 11th or 12th century. Since 1428 the area belonged to the family of Zúñiga ; in 1621 the title of "Margrave of Baides" was created, which still exists today.

Attractions

Baides Iglesia

• The single-aisled Romanesque Iglesia de Santa María Magdalena , built of rubble stones, stands on a small hill above the village. It has a two-part bell gable (espadaña) made of precisely hewn stones above the otherwise unadorned west facade; the actual entrance is on the south side. The nave is not vaulted, but is spanned by a wooden roof truss .
• The simple chapel of the Ermita de Soledad is about 1 km outside the village.

Web links

Commons : Baides  - 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. ↑ Baides / Jadraque - climate tables
3. ↑ Baides - Population Development
4. ↑ Baides Church