Lourinhã

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Lourinhã
coat of arms map
Coat of arms of Lourinhã
Lourinhã (Portugal)
Lourinhã
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Oeste
District : Lisbon
Concelho : Lourinhã
Coordinates : 39 ° 15 ′  N , 9 ° 19 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 15 ′  N , 9 ° 19 ′  W
Residents: 9874 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 39.04 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 253 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 2530-126
politics
Mayor : Pedro Manuel Marques Margarido ( PS )
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Lourinhã
Largo D. Lourenço Vicente
2530-126 Lourinhã
Website: www.jf-lourinha.pt
Lourinhã County
flag map
Flag of Lourinhã Location of Lourinhã County
Residents: 25,735 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 147.18 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 175 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 8th
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Lourinhã
Praça Marquês de Pombal
2530-127 Lourinhã
President of the Câmara Municipal: João Duarte Anastácio de Carvalho ( PS )
Website: www.cm-lourinha.pt

Lourinhã is a small town ( vila ) in Portugal , about 73 kilometers north of the capital Lisbon. It is known as the “capital of the dinosaurs” in Portugal, thanks to the large number of finds that exist here.

Look at Lourinhã, from Miradouro Castle de Castelo Lourinhã from

history

The Lourinhanosaurus antunesi in the Lourinhã City Museum

Lourinhã is the district with the most numerous finds of traces and fossils of dinosaurs . The settlement by humans is proven by finds since the Paleolithic Age . Thanks to its advantageous location on the coast, the Celtiberians , Phoenicians , Greeks and Romans settled here . The current place name probably goes back to the nearby Roman estate of the Roman Laurinius, from which Lauriniusanam arose as the name of the local place in the province of Lusitania . Another theory sees the origin of today's place name in the Latin term Laurus-laurii , which originated with the lavishly growing laurel (Latin Laurus, Portuguese Louro).

After the conquest of the Moors in 711 , the place became Arabic . During the Reconquista conquered the first king of Portugal, D.Afonso Henriques , the land and gave it to the French knights D.Jordan, for his achievements in 1147 were made conquest of Lisbon from the Moors. D. Jordan gave the place the first town charter, probably in 1160 , which was granted by the kings D.Sancho I in 1218 and D.Afonso III. were confirmed in 1251 .

Contemporary engraving of the Battle of Vimeiro

In the course of his administrative reforms, King D. Manuel I renewed Lourinhã's town charter in 1512 .

In the course of the Napoleonic invasions, the Battle of Vimeiro took place on August 21, 1808 in Vimeiro near Lourinhã . The defeated French then signed the Cintra Convention and evacuated the Portugal they had occupied.

Culture and sights

Various thematic hiking trails (including dinosaurs, Vimeiro battle, coast) are laid out in a circle.

Cultural sites

The Museu da Lourinhã city ​​museum, opened in 1984, is divided into four areas: archeology , sacred art , ethnography and paleontology . His collection of finds from the Upper Jurassic is considered the largest on the Iberian Peninsula and of international importance. The oldest dinosaur eggs found in the world are located here, and with 100 eggs it is the world's second largest preserved clutch.

The city museum in the historical center

A museum visitor center has been set up on the site of the 1808 battle of Vimeiro. Other cultural sites in the district are the Museum of Regional Agricultural History, the Museu Rural do Reguengo Grande , plus the Biblioteca Municipal , and the Arquivo Municipal Archives .

Cultural monuments

The district currently has (October 2013) 67 protected buildings and places in various levels of protection. In addition to various historical buildings and a number of sacred buildings, there is also a monument to the Battle of Vimeiro in 1808. It was built on the centenary in 1908 in the style of the early 19th century and is a listed building. The house in which the commander of the Portuguese-British defense, later General Wellington , resided, is one of the district's monuments .

The historic town center is also a listed building as a whole.

beaches

View of Porto das Barcas

The district has 12 km of Atlantic coast, on which there are a number of different beaches:

Sports

The football club Sporting Clube Lourinhanense has existed since 1926 and today (2013/14 season) plays in the third division, the Campeonato Nacional de Seniores . He plays his home games at the Estádio Municipal da Lourinhã . The club also has a cycling department.

The Hóquei Clube da Lourinhã , founded in 1989, now practices eleven other sports in addition to its main sport, roller hockey .

The City Council ( Câmara Municipal ) of Lourinhã
The municipalities of the district until 2013

administration

The circle

Lourinhã is the administrative seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Lisbon district . On June 30, 2011 the district had 25,735 inhabitants on an area of ​​147.2 km².

The neighboring regions are (starting clockwise in the north): Peniche , Óbidos , Bombarral , Cadaval , Torres Vedras and the Atlantic Ocean.

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

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are located in Lourinhã County:

Lourinhã County
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
Lourinhã e Atalaia 11,755 46.48 253 110812
Miragaia e Marteleira 3,583 19.47 184 110813
Moita dos Ferreiros 1,734 24.83 70 110803
Reguengo Grande 1,626 15.59 104 110805
Ribamar 2.141 6.11 350 110810
Santa Bárbara 1,943 7.52 258 110806
São Bartolomeu dos Galegos e Moledo 1,483 20.10 74 110814
Vimeiro 1,470 7.08 208 110808
Lourinhã County 25,735 147.18 175 1108

Population development

Population in Lourinhã County (1801–2011)
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2011
3366 6481 12,154 17,049 22,927 21,245 21,596 23,239 25,735

Municipal holiday

  • June 24th

Town twinning

sons and daughters of the town

  • Memorial stone for Lourenço Vicente

  • Manuela Sousa Marques

  • Maestro Manuel Maria Baltazar

  • Ana Jorge

Web links

Commons : Lourinhã  - 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. ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ↑ a b www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  4. ^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, p. 146 ( ISBN 978-9724617305 )
  5. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed October 26, 2013
  6. ↑ The Lourinhã City Museum on the district administration's website, accessed on October 26, 2013
  7. ↑ The Museu Rural do Reguengo Grande on the district administration's website, accessed on October 26, 2013
  8. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on October 26, 2013
  9. ↑ ditto
  10. ↑ ditto
  11. ↑ www.foradejogo.net , accessed October 26, 2013
  12. ↑ Club data from www.mundook.net, accessed on October 26, 2013
  13. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  14. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on October 26, 2013
  15. ↑ Assinado mais um Acordo de Geminação (“Another town twinning agreement signed”), article in No. 301 of August 15, 2019 of the German-Portuguese newspaper Portugal Post , page 7