Cabrejas del Pinar

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Cabrejas del Pinar municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Castile LeonCastile and León Castile and León
Province : Soria
Comarca : Pinares
Coordinates 41 ° 48 ′  N , 2 ° 51 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 48 ′  N , 2 ° 51 ′  W
Height : 1161  msnm
Area : 124.14 km²
Residents : 347 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 2.8 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 42146, 42147
Municipality number  ( INE ): 42045
administration
Website : cabrejasdelpinar.com

Cabrejas del Pinar refers to a place and a municipality ( municipio ) with 347 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the northwest of the Spanish province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León . The parish belongs to the Diocese of Osma-Soria .

location

The place Cabrejas del Pinar is located in the plateau interspersed with hills and rocks in the northwest of the province of Soria at an altitude of approx. 1150 meters above sea level. d. M. The distance to the eastern provincial capital Soria is just under 35 kilometers (driving distance). The neighboring town of Abejar is only about seven kilometers to the east.

Population development

year 1960 1970 1981 1991 2001 2010
Residents 923 748 521 463 479 426

In the first half of the 20th century the number of inhabitants was between 600 and 800. The increasing mechanization of agriculture and the resulting loss of jobs have contributed to a large extent to the significant population decline of the last decades.

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 wood processing companies and tourism in the form of renting out holiday homes ( casas rurales ) play 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 , which were established in the beginning of the 10th century under the Castilian Count Gonzalo Téllez and then in the second half of the 11th century under Alfonso VI. were recaptured ( reconquista ) and repopulated ( repoblación ). In the Middle Ages, the place was on the northern part of the Way of St. James ( Camino de Santiago ), which led from Catalonia ( Barcelona ) via Aragón ( Saragossa ) to Castile ( Burgos ) and connected there with the main route ( Camino Francés ). From the 16th to the 18th century, Cabrejas was the capital of the Communidad de Villa y Tierra .

Attractions

  • The castle ( castillo ) originally dates from the Moorish times; After the reconquest, it was taken over by the Christians and expanded until it lost strategic importance and fell into disrepair in the late Middle Ages. The most important architectural remains are the keep ( torre de homenaje ) and parts of the surrounding wall ring with a ruinous gate.
  • A round tower interpreted as a watchtower ( atalaya ) from Islamic times is very close.
  • The parish church ( Iglesia de San Millán ), a rather unadorned and clunky-looking building from the 16th / 17th centuries. Century has a remarkable baroque portal with side rotated columns . The interior houses an imposing altarpiece in the Churrigueresque style .
Ermita de la Blanca
  • In the center of the village there is a court column ( rollo or picota ) from the time when Cabrejas del Pinar was the main town of the Communidad de Villa y Tierra .
  • A restored claw stand ( potro de herrar ) is on the outskirts.
  • The imposing single-nave, but with a transept, Ermita de la Blanca is located near the main road N234. It is a foundation established by three families who emigrated to Mexico in the 18th century and who had become prosperous there. The church was consecrated in 1814; the portal shows clear classical styles.
  • The mostly unadorned Ermita de Santa Ana , built mostly from field stones ( mampostería ), stands at the entrance to the village and is now used as a cemetery chapel.

Web links

Commons : Cabrejas del Pinar  - 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).