Errenteria

Errenteria
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Basque Country
Province :	Gipuzkoa
Coordinates	43 ° 19 ′  N , 1 ° 54 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 19 ′  N , 1 ° 54 ′  W
Area :	32.26 km²
Residents :	39,471 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	1,223.53 inhabitants / km²
Founding:	1320
Postal code :	20100
Municipality number  ( INE ):	20067
administration
Mayor :	Julen Mendoza Pérez ( picture )
Website :	www.errenteria.eus
Location of the city

Errenteria (Basque, Spanish Rentería ) is a town with 39,471 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the Spanish autonomous province of Gipuzkoa in the valley of Oiartzun . It is about 10 km from the French border. In 1320 it was founded under the name Villanueva d'Oiarso . Nearby are the Neolithic caves and dolmens of Aitzbitarte.

history

The city experienced a heyday from the 15th to the 17th century with the boom in Spanish seafaring. Numerous historic buildings date from this phase, including a. the monastery of Santa Maria Magdalena and the parish church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción , the town hall and many residential buildings. Fort San Marco was built in 1888.

The region was industrialized in the 19th century. Numerous companies in the iron and non-ferrous metal processing, the paper and textile industry and other industries settled in the city, which led to heavy pollution from sewage. In the 1960s and 1970s, the city was expanded to include new building districts and its population doubled to over 45,000 through immigration. In the last two decades the resident population has decreased again. The de-industrialization of the last decades and numerous renovation and greening measures led to an improvement in the cityscape and a reduction in environmental pollution.

In 2005, the technical vocational and advanced training center TKNIKA (Center for Innovation in Vocational Training and Lifelong Learning) was founded in Errenteria as an institution of the Basque Ministry of Education. Start-ups can use the machines and laboratories for their innovation projects.

Town twinning

• Monroy (Cáceres) , Spain (since 1990)
• Tulle , France (since 1991)
• Lousada , Portugal (since 1998)
• Fuentepelayo (Segovia) , Spain
• Schorndorf Rems-Murr-Kreis , Germany (since 2012)

gastronomy

Well known is the Mugaritz , which has been one of the first places on the list of the world's ten best restaurants since 2006. It has been under the direction of Andoni Luis Aduriz, known for his molecular cuisine, since 1998 .

Personalities

• Martin de Rentería Usanza , admiral, fought against the Bey of Algiers, Khair ad-Din Barbarossa , in 1526
• Pedro de Zubiaurre (1568–1605), admiral under Philip II and one of the commanders of the Armada
• Sancho de Echeverría y Orcolaga (1674-1710), field marshal in numerous campaigns in America, Italy and Spain ( War of the Spanish Succession )
• Vicente Antonio de Icuza y Arbaiza (1737–1785), captain, captain general of the province of Caracas
• José Manuel Lujanbio Retegi “Tchirrita” (1860–1936), improvisation poet
• Evaristo Bozas Urrutia (1886–1929), publicist, newspaper editor, voice of Basque migrants in South America
• Koldo Mitxelena Elissalt (1915–1987), linguist, made important contributions to the research and standardization of the Basque language, imprisoned as a member of the Basque Nationalists 1937–1943 and 1946–1948, professor of Indo-European and Basque linguistics at the Universities of Salamanca and Vitoria-Gasteiz as well as at the Sorbonne , Dr. hc from the University of Barcelona

Web links

• Commune website

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. ↑ http://www.errenteria.net/es/ficheros/40_2665es.pdf  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 166 kB)  
3. ↑ http://www.euskomedia.org/aunamendi/48381
4. ↑ http://www.tknika.net/liferay/web/aldizkaria Website of the institution
5. ↑ http://www.mugaritz.com/ Website of the restaurant, accessed May 12, 2012
6. ↑ http://www.gastronomieguide.de/blog/san-pellegrino-worlds-50-best-restaurants-2012/
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.