Obanos

Obanos municipality
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Navarre
Province :	Navarre
Comarca :	Puente la Reina (Comarca)
Coordinates	42 ° 41 ′  N , 1 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 41 ′  N , 1 ° 47 ′  W
Height :	412  msnm
Area :	19.7 km²
Residents :	935 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	47.46 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	31151
Municipality number  ( INE ):	31183
administration
Mayor :	Fernando Lana Guembe (Indep.)
Address of the municipal administration:	Plaza de los Fueros, 1. 31151 Obanos
Website :	www.obanos.es
Location of the municipality

Obanos is a place on the Spanish Way of St. James , Camino Francés , in the Spanish-speaking part of the autonomous community of Navarre .

Obanos is the historically documented Villa de los Infanzones - the town of the country lads . In 1327 they gathered the social forces of the Navarre kingdom and swore with them to jointly take action against the overwhelming power and abuse of office of the ruling French nobility. This project was under the motto Pro libertate patriae gens libera state - For a free fatherland you too must be free

The neo-Gothic parish church of the village was 1911 / 1912 built and John the Baptist ordained.

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  Archway to the Plaza de los Fueros

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  San Juan Church

In 1993, on the village square in front of the church, the tradition of the Mystery Games was resumed, which the canon and writer Santos Bequiristain had initiated with his dramatization of the Mystery of Obanos : From 1962 (other sources say 1965) to 1978, professional and amateur actors played the every year in August History of Felicia of Aquitaine and her brother Guillermo (Wilhelm). Accordingly, on her way back from Santiago de Compostela , Felicia decides to renounce a planned marriage and court life and to lead a godly life in the mountains of Navarre. Her brother Wilhelm tried to bring her back to court and unintentionally kills her. As atonement for the sacrilege, the Pope sends him on a pilgrimage to Santiago. On his return he decided to practice asceticism and from then on served in the hermitage of Our Lady of Arnotegui. He dies after a pious and miraculous life and is venerated together with his sister as the patron saint of the area.

The tomb of Felicia is in the hermitage of Santa Maria at the exit of the village, the hermitage of Our Lady of Arnotegui is on a hill on the opposite side of the valley. The silver skull reliquary of Wilhelm is kept in the sacristy of the parish church. On the occasion of the village festival, wine is poured over it, which is then mixed with water and distributed to those present with a reputation for effecting miraculous healings.

It is possible that this legend is the subsequent creation of legends about the Christianization of local deities. Our Lady of Arnotegui is described as giving wine, her “predecessor” could have been an established pagan wine goddess.

Population development of the municipality

Source: INE archive - graphic processing for Wikipedia

literature

• Míllan Bravo Lozano: Practical pilgrim guide. The Camino de Santiago. Editorial Everest, Léon 1994, ISBN 84-241-3835-X .
• Cordula Rabe: Spanish Way of St. James. From the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela. All stages - with variants and height profiles. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7633-4330-0 ( Rother hiking guide ).
• Ulrich Wegner, Der Spanische Jakobsweg, Dumont, Cologne, 1995, ISBN 3-7701-3415-X .

Web links

Commons : Obanos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Obanos in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Spanish)
• Information about the Camino Francés

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. ^ Location information from the Navarre regional government

Navigation bar St. James " Camino Francés "

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