La Seu d'Urgell

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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Catalonia
Province : Lleida
Comarca : Old Urgell
Coordinates 42 ° 21 ′  N , 1 ° 28 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 21 ′  N , 1 ° 28 ′  E
Height : 691  msnm
Area : 15 km²
Residents : 12,089 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 805.93 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number  ( INE ): 25203
administration
Official language : Castilian , Catalan
Mayor : Albert Batalla i Siscart
Website : www.laseu.org

La Seu d'Urgell [ lə ˈsɛw ðuɾˈʒeʎ ] is a city in northern Catalonia . The city in the Pyrenees is close to the mountainous state of Andorra . It is the capital of the Catalan comarca Alt Urgell in the province of Lleida . The city is 691 m above sea level, is 15.44 square kilometers and has a population of 12,089 (January 1, 2019). The Segre flows through the city . The Valira, which comes from Andorra, flows into it within the urban area .

history

The city was founded in 195 BC. Founded by the Romans as Orgellia . Little is known about the Christianization of the region, but there was already a bishop in 527 . In the Middle Ages , La Seu d'Urgell was the capital of the historic county of Urgell . The addition of the name Seu means bishopric in Catalan . In the Middle Ages, the diocese of Urgell was one of the starting points of the Christian belief system of adoptianism, represented by its bishop Felix von Urgell . This led to a documentary mention of La Seu d'Urgell in the capital of the Synod of Frankfurt in 794 under Charlemagne .

The bishop of the Urgell diocese is still one of the two co-princes ( ~ head of state ) of the neighboring state of Andorra, along with the President of France .

In 1992, in La Seu d'Urgell in the context of the Olympic Games of Barcelona , the canoeing competitions in slalom held.

The city is the seat of the Catholic religious order Germanes de la Sagrada Família d'Urgell (Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Urgell).

population

Population development
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1981 1990 1996 2000 2006
3,520 3,853 3,636 4,584 4,564 7,062 7,773 9,404 10,681 10,468 10,711 10,943 12,533

Economy and Transport

La Seu d'Urgell is conveniently located at the intersection of the N-260 national road (so-called Eix Pirinenc), which runs south along the main ridge of the Pyrenees , and the N-145 national road, which runs south from Andorra, which joins the C-14 ( Andorra - Tarragona ) transforms.

There is no connection to the rail network.

The Andorra Airport - La Seu d'Urgell was reopened in 2011 and in view of the tourist development of the Pyrenees also by air traffic u. a. expanded and modernized with funds from Andorra. Since July 2015, the airport has been used as the Aeroport Andorra - La Seu d'Urgell by various airlines, including a. used for Swiftair charter flights . From November 2015 Air Andorra intends to operate regular scheduled flights to various European countries in order to bring tourists as close as possible to the Andorran winter sports areas (especially Vallnord , Grandvalira ) in the Pyrenees.

Attractions

Cathedral of La Seu d'Urgell

sons and daughters of the town

Town twinning

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. ↑ Johannes Fried, Rainer Koch, Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jelsch, Andreas Tiegel (eds.): 794 - Charlemagne in Frankfurt am Main: a king at work , pp. 46-48. Publication for the exhibition of the city of Frankfurt am Main "794 - Charlemagne in Frankfurt" . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1994. ISBN 3-7995-1204-7

Web links

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