Jirueque

Jirueque parish
Jirueque - town view
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile-La Mancha
Province :	Guadalajara
Comarca :	La Alcarria
Coordinates	40 ° 58 ′  N , 2 ° 54 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 58 ′  N , 2 ° 54 ′  W
Height :	845  msnm
Area :	10.64 km²
Residents :	59 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	5.55 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	19149
Municipality number  ( INE ):	19157
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Website :	Jirueque

Jirueque is a central Spanish town and municipality ( municipio ) with only 59 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the province of Guadalajara in the autonomous region of Castile-La Mancha . The municipality belongs to the sparsely populated region of the Serranía Celtibérica .

Location and climate

The approximately 845  m high place Jirueque lies at the confluence of two streams in the north of the Alcarria , a landscape in the north of the southern part of the Iberian plateau ( meseta ) . The provincial capital Guadalajara is about 53 km (driving distance) in a south-westerly direction; the places of interest Jadraque and Pinilla de Jadraque are within a radius of only 10 km. The climate in winter is temperate, while in summer it is warm to hot; the rather low rainfall (approx. 440 mm / year) falls - with the exception of the almost rainless summer months - distributed over the whole year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2019
Residents	265	230	241	91	59

As a result of the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting loss of jobs, the population of the municipality has decreased significantly since the middle of the 20th century ( rural exodus ).

economy

The people of earlier centuries lived mainly as self-sufficiency from agriculture and livestock farming , whose durable products (cheese, sausage, animal skins and wool) could be exchanged or sold at traveling traders. At times, craftsmen and service providers were also based in the village.

history

Neither the Celts nor the Romans , Visigoths and even the Moors left any usable traces on the municipality. In the second half of the 11th century the latter were by the army of King Alfonso VI. driven out of the region by León ( reconquista ) ; then the phase of new or resettlement ( repoblación ) began by Christians from many parts of the Iberian Peninsula . A written mention of the place name from the early Middle Ages is not known and so it is assumed that it originated in the 11th or 12th century. Since 1469, the place and its surrounding area belonged to the huge property of Cardinal Mendoza († 1495), who in 1492 became part of the Condado del Cid county, which was newly founded by the Catholic Kings .

Attractions

• The originally single-nave Romanesque Iglesia de San Bartolomé received a side aisle on the south side in the 16th century; at the same time the interior was modernized. The new tower was built in the 18th century. In one of the side chapels is the late Gothic alabaster tomb , richly decorated with figures, of the cleric Don Alfonso Fernández de Cuesta (also called El Dorado de Jirueque ), who died in 1510 .

Surroundings

• The Ermita Humilladero de la Virgen de la Soledad , built from quarry stones with the exception of the corner stones , is a few kilometers outside the village; it is the last of three ermitas that belonged to the place in the 16th century . In front of the small chapel is a column portico . During the civil war (1936–1939) it was stripped of its old picture decorations.

literature

• Pedro Carrero Eras: Jirueque y Vecindades Viaje Interrior. AACHE, Guadalajara 2007, ISBN 978-84-96885-11-0 .

Web links

Commons : Jirueque  - 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).
2. ↑ Jirueque / Jadraque - climate tables
3. ↑ Jirueque - Population Development
4. ↑ Jirueque Church
5. ↑ Jirueque - tomb
6. ↑ Jirueque - Ermita