Ermesinde (Portugal)

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Ermesinde
coat of arms map
Ermesinde coat of arms Location map for Ermesinde
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Porto metropolitan area
District : postage
Concelho : Valongo
Coordinates : 41 ° 13 ′  N , 8 ° 33 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 13 ′  N , 8 ° 33 ′  W
Residents: 38,798 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 7.65 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 5072 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 4445
politics
Mayor : Luís Ramalho ( PSD )
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Ermesinde
Rua D. António Ferreira Gomes, 365
4445-398 Ermesinde
Website: www.jf-ermesinde.pt

Ermesinde is a city in the greater Porto area in northern Portugal .

The Igreja de Santa Rita church in Ermesinde

history

The place name is of Germanic origin. A first community in Ermezende was probably founded by the Suebi or in the subsequent Visigoth Empire . Another explanation sees the daughter of landlord Gundezindo, named Ermezinde, mentioned in 890, as the namesake of the local area, which her father gave her.

The first documented mentions of a local village Azomes come from the royal surveys of 1258. As Azenas it is mentioned in the town charter of Maia in 1519 , and is in the registers as Açomes in 1706. The industrial development of the region began with the arrival of the railroad in 1875. The municipality was called São Lourenço de Asmes until the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic (1910), when in 1911, at the request of the municipal administration, its name was changed to the current place name.

The place was raised to a small town ( Vila ) in 1938 and a city ( Cidade ) in 1990 .

administration

Ermesinde is the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Valongo in the district of Porto . It had 38,798 inhabitants on June 30, 2011, which corresponds to a population density of 5070 inhabitants / km². It is both the smallest and the most populous municipality in Valongo County.

Ermesinde train station at the turn of the century

The following localities are in the municipality:

  • Cancela
  • Ermesinde
  • Formiga
  • Sampaio
  • Travagem

traffic

Ermesinde is on the Linha do Minho railway line .

The city ​​is connected to the country's trunk road network via the A4 motorway .

Josué Pesqueira in the FC Porto jersey (2013)

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ History of the city on the website of the local government, accessed on March 22, 2014