Esposende

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Esposende
coat of arms map
Esposende coat of arms
Esposende (Portugal)
Esposende
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Cávado
District : Braga
Concelho : Esposende
Freguesia : União das Freguesias de Esposende, Marinhas e Gandra
Coordinates : 41 ° 32 ′  N , 8 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 32 ′  N , 8 ° 47 ′  W
Postal code : 4740-233
politics
Website: www.freguesiaesposende.pt
Esposende district
flag map
Flag of Esposende Location of the Esposende district
Residents: 34,254 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 95.41 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 359 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 9
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Esposende
Praça do Município
4740-223 Esposende
President of the Câmara Municipal: António Benjamim da Costa Pereira ( PSD )
Website: www.cm-esposende.pt

Esposende is a city in northern Portugal . The urban area consists of the three municipalities Esposende, Gandra and Marinhas .

The Rio Cávado flows into the Atlantic Ocean here. The place is also known for its beaches.

In downtown Esposende

On September 29, 2013, the municipalities of Esposende, Marinhas and Gandra were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Esposende, Marinhas e Gandra . Esposende is the seat of this newly formed community.

history

In the archaeological site of Castro de São Lourenço

Finds prove a prehistoric settlement. The menhir São Paio de Antas and in particular the excavation site of the Castro de São Lourenço settlement from the Castro culture should be mentioned . The area belonged to the Suebian Empire in the early 5th century , then to the Visigoth Empire . The etymology of the place name indicates a corresponding Germanic origin of the name of the place, which was originally called Hispanusindus and then Spanusinde . Esposende was first officially mentioned in a document from 959, as a village near the salt pans of Villa de Fano . 1108 named an inheritance document of a monastery, the Mosteiro de Vairão , the place Esposende, in which the children of Paio Godins and Goutinho Nunes divided areas between Esposende, Braga and Vila do Conde.

In the royal surveys of 1220 Esposende was listed as a small town in the municipality of Zopães (now Marinhas ). Bishop Pedro helped all parishes in the Archdiocese of Braga to become independent, with the exception of Esposendes, which was spun off from the administrative parish of Marinhas and became independent only after several attempts and through the initiative of Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires. On August 19, 1512, Esposende was raised to a small town ( Vila ) and the seat of its own district. In the further course of the Portuguese voyages of discovery , Esposende's boom increased significantly, especially as a place of sea trade, shipbuilding and salt production, but agriculture and grazing cattle also contributed to the economic development. King D. Sebastião extended the city rights of Esposende with a document dated October 5, 1573.

The increasing importance of Esposende led to the settlement of a district court in 1898. On August 19, 1993, the previous small town (Vila) was finally elevated to a town ( Cidade ).

administration

The circle

Esposende is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Braga district . On June 30, 2011, the district had 36,700 inhabitants on an area of ​​95.4 km².

The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Viana do Castelo , Barcelos , Póvoa de Varzim and the Atlantic Ocean .

The Esposende Municipal Museum, in the building of the Teatro-Club opened in 1911

With the regional reform in September 2013, several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from 15 to nine.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Esposende district:

Esposende district
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
Antas 2,221 9.07 245 030601
Apúlia e Fão 7,301 16.29 448 030616
Belinho e Mar 3,199 8.95 358 030617
Esposende, Marinhas e Gandra 11,111 17.31 642 030618
Fonte Boa e Rio Tinto 1,944 10.38 187 030619
Forjães 2,767 8.30 333 030608
Measured 1,078 5.57 194 030610
Palmeira de Faro e Curvos 3.214 11.04 291 030620
Vila Chã 1,419 8.50 167 030615
Esposende district 34,254 95.41 359 0306

Population development

Population in the Esposende district (1801–2011)
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2011
4157 12,545 15.161 19,452 23,966 28,652 30.101 33,325 34,361

Municipal holiday

  • August 19th

Town twinning

traffic

The city is located with its own junction on the A28 motorway , which leads north from Porto to Galicia in Spain .

The nearest railway connection is the Barcelos train station, about 15 km to the east, on the Linha do Minho line .

Esposende is integrated into the national long-distance bus network of Rede Expressos .

Local public transport in the district is served by bus lines operated by the Litoral Norte company.

sons and daughters of the town

The painter Henrique Medina (1901–1988) and the writer António Correia de Oliveira (1878–1960) died in Esposende.

  • António Rodrigues Sampaio

  • Fonseca Lima

  • Antonio Rodrigues Alves de Faria

  • Antonio Couto dos Santos

  • Monument to Henrique Medina in Esposende

Web links

Commons : Esposende  - 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. ↑ Francisco Diniz, Alexandre Poeta, Conceição Silva, Lígia Pinto, Sónia Abreu: Relatório da cidade de Esposende Portugal. (PDF; 955 kB) utad.pt, December 2003, p. 2 , accessed on May 22, 2011 (Portuguese): "Zona A - Freguesias de Esposende, Gandra, Marinhas"
  4. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014
  5. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed on February 16, 2014
  6. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  7. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  8. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on February 16, 2014