La Hiniesta

La Hiniesta municipality
La Hiniesta - townscape with collegiate church
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and Leon
Province :	Zamora
Comarca :	Tierra del Pan
Coordinates	41 ° 33 ′  N , 5 ° 48 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 33 ′  N , 5 ° 48 ′  W
Height :	690  msnm
Area :	33.15 km²
Residents :	316 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	9.53 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	49192
Municipality number  ( INE ):	49095
administration
Website :	La Hiniesta

Portal of the Church

La Hiniesta is a northwestern Spanish municipality ( municipio ) with 316 inhabitants (2019) in the province of Zamora in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon .

location

The place La Hiniesta is a good 10 km (driving distance) northwest of the city of Zamora in the Castilian plateau at an altitude of about 690 meters above sea level. d. M. The climate in winter is quite cold, but in summer it is warm to hot; the sparse precipitation (approx. 360 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2016
Residents	582	866	728	383	330

As a result of the mechanization of agriculture and the associated loss of jobs, the population of the municipality has continuously declined since the 1950s to the lows of recent years.

economy

Agriculture traditionally plays the largest role in the municipality's economic life; Surpluses could be sold or exchanged in Zamora's markets.

history

The establishment of the place goes back to the time of the reconquest ( reconquista ) and repopulation ( repoblación ) in the 12th century. A legend reports that the Castilian King Sancho IV (r. 1284–1295) found an image of Mary in a gorse bush during a hunt; In any case, he donated the building of a collegiate church and exempted the residents of the place from taxes and duties in 1290. The place then experienced a heyday.

Attractions

The collegiate church of Santa María la Real , built from precisely hewn stones and raised by a transverse bell gable added in the Baroque period , is a single-nave Gothic building from the late 13th century with a remarkable portal with a figurative tympanum field . This is protected by a porch with lateral garment figures, so that remains of paint have been preserved, and shows scenes from the childhood of Jesus on the lower level, who appears in the upper field as a judge of the world. Further figures from the early 13th century can be seen inside the church.

Web links

Commons : Church of Santa María la Real  - 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. ↑ La Hiniesta - Map with altitude information
3. ↑ Zamora / La Hiniesta - climate tables
4. ↑ La Hiniesta - population development
5. ↑ La Hiniesta - Collegiate Church
6. ↑ La Hiniesta - Collegiate Church