Cobro

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Cobro
coat of arms map
The coat of arms is still missing
Cobro (Portugal)
Cobro
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Terras de Trás-os-Montes
District : Bragança
Concelho : Mirandela
Coordinates : 41 ° 25 ′  N , 7 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 25 ′  N , 7 ° 15 ′  W
Residents: 205 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 12.31 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 17 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 5370-110
politics
Mayor : Manuel Lopes Rodrigues ( PPD / PSD )
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Cobro
Rua Principal
5370-110 Cobro

Cobro is a place and a municipality in northern Portugal .

History and place name

The present-day village was probably created during the course of new settlements after the medieval Reconquista .

According to a popular legend, the place name goes back to an extraordinarily large snake ( Portuguese Cobra) that inhabited today's municipality when the village was founded. Another theory sees the origin in the substantiation of the verb cobrar ( Portuguese for to raise, to draw in ), which here consisted in the transfer of part of the pig slaughter from the tenant to the landowner. Cobro also referred to a wide strip of bacon from the pork belly. The abbot and historian Pedro A. Ferreira, on the other hand, attributes Cobro , like Cobrosa , to the same root word as Sobro and Sobrosa , which comes from Sobreiro , the Portuguese name for cork oak .

Around 1890, the community of Vila Verde was annexed to Cobro for a few years. A few years later, the municipality of Barcel also came to Cobro, until Barcel became independent again in 1936.

Attractions

In addition to nature, which is accessible via hiking trails of the Mirandela district administration, there are some architectural monuments in the municipality of Cobro, in particular the following sacred buildings :

  • Igreja de São Sebastião , Cobro parish church
  • Nicho do Sagrado Coração de Jesus , prayer niche or wayside shrine
  • Capela de Santa Bárbara , chapel
  • Capela de Nossa Senhora de Fátima , chapel
  • Capela de Nossa Senhora da Conceição , chapel

administration

Population development of the municipality of Cobro (1864–2011)

Cobro is the seat of the municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( Concelho ) of Mirandela in the Bragança district . 205 inhabitants live in it on an area of ​​12 km² (as of June 30, 2011). The actual municipal administration is based in the locality of Rego de Vide.

There are two localities in the municipality:

  • Cobro
  • Rego de Vide

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, p. 89 ( ISBN 978-9724617305 )
  4. ↑ Entry of the Igreja de São Sebastião in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on March 13, 2020
  5. ^ Entry of the Nicho do Sagrado Coração de Jesus in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on March 13, 2020
  6. ↑ Entry of the Capela de Santa Bárbara in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on March 13, 2020
  7. ↑ Entry of the Capela de Nossa Senhora de Fátima in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on March 13, 2020
  8. ↑ Entry of the Capela de Nossa Senhora da Conceição in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on March 13, 2020