Dos Hermanas

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Dos Hermanas municipality
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Coat of arms of Dos Hermanas
Dos Hermanas (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Andalusia
Province : Seville
Coordinates 37 ° 17 ′  N , 5 ° 55 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 17 ′  N , 5 ° 55 ′  W
Height : 42  msnm
Area : 159.10 km²
Residents : 133,968 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 842.04 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 41700-41704, 41089
Municipality number  ( INE ): 41038
administration
Mayor : Francisco Toscano
Website : www.doshermanas.es
Location of the municipality
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Dos Hermanas ( Spanish: two sisters) is a major Spanish city in the province of Seville in the autonomous region of Andalusia . Geographically, it lies in the basin of the Guadalquivir River , 12 km south of the provincial capital Seville .

In terms of tourism, the city offers little. Dos Hermanas became internationally known through the renowned international chess tournament that took place here from 1989 to 2008.

Data

Dos Hermanas has 133,968 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019), the number of which is constantly growing due to its proximity to Seville. The city area covers 159.10 km², with an average height of 42 m above sea ​​level . The annual average temperature in the sunny climate is 18.7 ° C.

Dos Hermanas is conveniently located in terms of traffic (the start of the A-4 motorway to Cádiz , Madrid - Cádiz railway line ) and benefits from Seville's infrastructure . The up-and-coming industry has long since replaced the dominant olive and orange cultivation as the most important branch of the economy.

The city's mayor is the socialist Francisco Toscano Sánchez ( PSOE ).

history

The residents are called "Nazarenes" (span. Nazarenos ) after the two sisters Elvira and Estefanía Nazareno, who gave the city its name. (Spanish dos hermanas = two sisters). According to legend, they found after the conquest of Seville in 1248 by Fernando III. a bell and a picture of St. Anne in a grotto and founded a church in this place . It is historically certain that they were the sisters of Gonzalo Nazareno, to whom this area was awarded when the land was distributed after the Reconquista .

Dos Hermanas was first mentioned in a document in 1404. In 1679 it was made a margraviate (approx. 1,000 inhabitants).

In the Spanish Civil War , the regional armed forces supported the military coup of July 17, 1936. Immediately after the takeover of power, the coup military began to liquidate the opposition. At the time of the coup, the city was ruled by a coalition of socialists , communists and anarchists . Mayor Antonio Muñoz Benítez was liquidated along with members of the left coalition council in the early days of the coup. At the Dos Hermanas cemetery there is a mass grave with nearly 300 people shot. On a farm near the city, in Los Merinales, was one of the largest of Franco's concentration camps , where prisoners of the Republican Army were interned until the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. The prisoners were subjected to a brutal slave labor regime. Organized in slave labor battalions , they were used to build a branch canal from the Guadalquivir River . In addition to the Los Merinales camp, there were other camps around the village of Dos Hermanas; Corchuela, Sandy, Torreblanca, Valdezorras and Fuente del Rey camps.

In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War , 3,000 hectares of the municipality were assigned to the Seville municipality by a state decree . Today Dos Hermanas is negotiating the return of the area.

During the 1960s, a development plan resulted in rapid population growth. On July 24, 1975, the place was named a city.

Population development of Dos Hermanas
Population development
year 1900 1970 1979 2002 2006 2014
Residents 7,850 39,677 50,720 103.282 114,672 130,369

Infrastructure

traffic

The city is connected to Seville by the S-Bahn operated by the Spanish state railway company RENFE. The journey from Dos Hermanas train station to San Bernardo train station in downtown Seville takes around 10 minutes.

Military airfield

In the far west of the urban area in El Copero there is a smaller military airfield for the Spanish Army Aviation ( Fuerzas Aeromóviles del Ejército de Tierra , FAMET), the El Copero base . Here are the cougar helicopters of the Batallón de Helicópteros de Maniobra núm. IV (BHELMA IV).

Broadcasting station

In the area of ​​the city of Dos Hermanas, south of the Los Palacios district at 37 ° 12'35 "N 5 ° 55'33" W, there is a transmitter for broadcasting the RNE-1 program with a 244 meter high guyed transmitter mast. The transmitter of this system, which operates on the frequency 684 kHz with a transmission power of 300 kW, can easily be received in Germany during the night.

Dos Hermanas chess tournament

List of winners of the Grand Masters Tournament

sons and daughters of the town

  • Felipe González (* 1942), politician, Prime Minister of Spain (1982–96)
  • Rodolfo Bodipo (* 1977), equatorial Guinean football player
  • David Rivas (* 1978), football player
  • Melody , b. Melodía Ruiz Gutiérrez (* 1990), singer and composer in the field of Latin Pop
  • Los del Río , Spanish music duo that had a worldwide hit with Macarena

Web links

Commons : Dos Hermanas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

proof

  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. ↑ population statistics. Instituto Nacional de Estadística, accessed April 17, 2020 (Spanish).