Cabañes de Esgueva

Cabañes de Esgueva municipality
Cabañes de Esgueva - View of the town
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Burgos
Comarca :	Ribera del Duero
Coordinates	41 ° 50 ′  N , 3 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 50 ′  N , 3 ° 47 ′  W
Height :	905  msnm
Area :	26.57 km²
Residents :	164 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	6.17 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	09350
Municipality number  ( INE ):	09061
administration
Website :	Cabañes de Esgueva

Cabañes de Esgueva is a northern Spanish town and municipality ( municipio ) with only 164 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the south of the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile-León .

Location and climate

The place Cabañes de Esgueva is located in the valley of the Río Esgueva at an altitude of about 905  m . The city of Burgos is just under 65 km (driving distance) to the north; the nearest town is Aranda de Duero (approx. 26 km southeast). The climate in winter is often harsh, but in summer it is mostly temperate and warm; Rain (approx. 485 mm / year) falls mainly in the winter half-year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	588	791	550	268	169

The mechanization of agriculture and the abandonment of small farms led to a lack of jobs and a significant decline in the number of inhabitants ( rural exodus ) since the 1950s .

economy

In earlier times Cabañes de Esgueva was a self-sufficient farming village in the fertile Esgueva Valley. The field work is done by only a few farmers today; some houses are rented out as holiday apartments (casas rurales) in summer .

history

No evidence has yet been found from the Celtic , Roman , Visigothic and Islamic periods. In the 8th and early 9th centuries, the area was under Islamic influence, but the area was neither permanently settled nor defended by the Berbers due to the unusually harsh and rainy climate . At the end of the 9th century, the Castilian Count Diego Rodríguez Porcelos received from King Alfons III. of Asturias the order to repopulate ( repoblación ) the depopulated land.

Attractions

Romanesque portal

• The Iglesia de San Martín de Tours , originally from the 12th century, stands a little higher on a mountain slope. It was largely rebuilt in the 16th century; Only the Roman archivolt portal on the south side remained from the original building. The portal arch shows a motif of mutually overlapping cords and a scroll frieze ; the second archivolt is covered by a bead, but the middle archivolt shows a spherical rod and the outer one is formed by a fillet profile. The capitals resting on small columns show, among other things, mythical creatures and tendrils. The nave is spanned by a late Gothic rib vault; in one corner is a figurative Romanesque baptismal font .
• In the outer wall to the right of the portal there is a high relief depicting a man fighting a lion.
• In the mountainside are in 17./18. Several rock cellars ( bodegas ) were driven into it in the 19th century .

Web links

Commons : Cabañes de Esgueva  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cabañes de Esgueva - Photos + Info (wikiburgos, Spanish)
• Romanesque churches in the Esgueva Valley - photos + information (arteguias, Spanish)

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. ↑ Cabañes de Esgueva - climate tables
3. ↑ Cabañes de Esgueva - Population Development