Herramélluri

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Herramélluri municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : La RiojaLa Rioja La Rioja
Comarca : Santo Domingo de la Calzada
Coordinates 42 ° 30 ′  N , 3 ° 1 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 30 ′  N , 3 ° 1 ′  W
Height : 571  msnm
Area : 10.88 km²
Residents : 114 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 10.48 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 26213
Municipality number  ( INE ): 26073

Herramélluri is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) on the middle reaches of the Río Tirón in the Spanish region of La Rioja with about 114 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019).

location

Herramélluri is located in the far west of the La Rioja province at an altitude of about 570 meters above sea level. d. M. Almost 56 kilometers separate the town from Logroño ; the next larger cities are Haro (18 kilometers northeast) and Miranda de Ebro (about 27 kilometers north). The capital of the comarca , Santo Domingo de la Calzada , on the Way of St. James , is only about 10.5 kilometers to the southeast.

Population development

year 1960 1970 1981 1991 2001 2010
Residents 479 339 213 193 147 89

In the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, the place always had between 450 and 600 inhabitants. As a result of the mechanization of agriculture and the resulting lower demand for labor, the number of residents has declined significantly since the middle of the 20th century.

economy

In the first place in the economic life of the municipality traditionally ranks agriculture and especially viticulture - Herramélluri belongs to the growing area of ​​the Rioja Alta . In addition, wheat, barley, potatoes and vegetables are cultivated.

history

The history of the place possibly begins with a settlement called Oliva of the Celtic tribe of the Berons , who - coming from Central Europe - settled here around 250 BC. BC settled. This origin seems to be preserved in the place name of the neighboring town of Leiva .

Autrigones and Berons are used as opponents of the Roman invaders under the leadership of the renegade general Quintus Sertorius in the 70s of the 1st century BC. Called BC. The names of both tribes appear after the victory of an army sent by Sulla in 72 BC. BC no longer appears in ancient historiography. The Romans built the old settlement on Cerro del Piquillo under the new name Libia ; However, only remains of foundations and amphora fragments have survived from this Roman city . In 1905, one only about 20 centimeters wide, but about two kilograms was Venus statuette of Bronze ( Venus of Herramélluri ) discovered in the ruins.

The first written mention of the place dates from 1080 as part of a donation to the monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla . Another name ( Erra Melluri ) comes from the year 1101. In the 16th century the place was nicknamed de los Condes - a corresponding count castle no longer exists today.

Attractions

Ermita de San Isidro
Velasco: La Natividad Church
  • The parish church of San Esteban is dedicated to the arch martyr Stephen . It is made entirely of stone and dates from the 16th century. The bell storey of the tower and the south porch ( portico ), which can be found in many church buildings in the north and center of Spain , with their rounded corners could have been added in the Baroque period . The interior of the church houses two Roman alabaster columns that were reused as coasters for a holy water font and for a washbasin in the sacristy .
  • There are also reused Roman columns ( Spolia ) in the inner courtyard of the building called Casa Grande .
  • Today's town hall is a handsome building from the 18th century with a covered arcade on the ground floor resting on stone pillars .
  • A hermit chapel ( Ermita de San Isidro ) is about a kilometer outside the village.
  • A three-arched stone bridge built in the 18th century crosses the Río Tirón.
Velasco
  • The small church La Natividad in the hamlet of Velasco, which now has only five inhabitants, makes a well-fortified impression.

Web links

Commons : Herramélluri  - 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).