Nuevo Baztán

Nuevo Baztán municipality
Nuevo Baztán - Palacio de Goyeneche and Iglesia de San Francisco Javier
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Madrid
Province :	Madrid
Comarca :	Cuenca del Henares
Coordinates	40 ° 22 ′  N , 3 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 22 ′  N , 3 ° 15 ′  W
Height :	830  msnm
Area :	20.2 km²
Residents :	6,276 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	310.69 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	28514
Municipality number  ( INE ):	28100
administration
Website :	Nuevo Baztán

Nuevo Baztán is a small town and a central Spanish rural municipality ( municipio ) with 6,276 inhabitants (as of January 1 2019) in the east of the Community of Madrid in the transition to the autonomous region of Castile-La Mancha . The municipality belongs to the cultural landscape of the Alcarria .

Location and climate

The small town of Nuevo Baztán, about 830  m high, is located in the Iberian Highlands ( meseta ) southeast of the Castilian Scheidegebirge . The Spanish capital Madrid is a good 45 km (driving distance) to the west; the town of Alcalá de Henares is about 20 km to the northwest. The climate in winter is temperate, while in summer it is warm to hot; the rather low amounts of precipitation (approx. 450 mm / year) fall - with the exception of the almost rainless summer months - distributed over the whole year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2001	2019
Residents	315	306	298	3,380	6.276

The location in the east of the Madrid region has grown enormously since the 1990s through the creation of new development areas such as Eurovillas , Las Villas de Nuevo Baztán , Monteacevedo and El Mirador del Baztán .

Economy and history

The model town of Nuevo Baztán was planned as a craft and manufacturing town at the end of the 17th century by King Charles II († 1700) and the Basque entrepreneur Juan de Goyeneche († 1735). In 1709, under the direction of the architect José Benito de Churriguera , work began on unused land in the west of the municipality of Olmeda de las Fuentes , initially with sowing grain and planting olive trees and vines ; The commercial and residential buildings of the textile, leather, glass and metal workers as well as the Palacio de Goyeneche and the Iglesia de San Francisco Javier were built almost simultaneously . The first notarization and appointment to the city dates from October 3, 1723.

Attractions

• The exterior of the Palacio de Goyeneche is a rather austere, straightforward and unadorned building with two floors. The interior was used as the training and conference center of Bank Banesto for a long time in the 20th century .
• Immediately south of the palace and architecturally connected to it by cornices and windows of the same height is the two-tower church of St. Franz Xaver , whose portal has both baroque and classicist features . In the niche above the portal there is an almost life-size statue of the saint. The nave (nave) leads onto a large marble altarpiece (retablo) to whose outer sides as gilded stucco curtains are designed.

Festivals

• Fiestas populares del Santísimo Cristo del Socorro , (first week in May)
• Fiestas de la Fundación , (celebration of the city's foundation on October 9th)
• Fiesta San Miguel , (September 29th)
• Fiesta de San Francisco Javier , Patron of Nuevo Baztán, (December 3rd)
• Fiestas de la Urbanización Monteacevedo , (last week of July)

Web links

Commons : Nuevo Baztán  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nuevo Baztán - Photos + Info (Spanish)
• Nuevo Baztán - Photos + Info (Spanish)

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. ↑ Nuevo Bastán / Madrid - climate tables
3. ↑ Nuevon Baztán - Population Development
4. ↑ Nuevo Baztán - Palace and Church
5. ↑ Nuevo Baztán - Palacio de Goyeneche
6. ↑ Nuevo Baztán - altarpiece