Olmeda de las Fuentes

Olmeda de las Fuentes municipality
Olmeda de las Fuentes - town view
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Madrid
Comarca :	Cuenca del Henares
Coordinates	40 ° 22 ′  N , 3 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 22 ′  N , 3 ° 13 ′  W
Height :	794  msnm
Area :	16.57 km²
Residents :	348 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	21 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	28515
Municipality number  ( INE ):	28101
administration
Website :	Olmeda de las Fuentes

Olmeda de las Fuentes is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) with 348 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the east of the autonomous 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 50 km (driving distance) to the west; the town of Alcalá de Henares is about 25 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	2000	2019
Residents	371	492	420	152	348

The place in the east of the Madrid region has largely retained its historically grown character.

economy

For centuries, the population of the village lived as a self-sufficiency from the income from their fields and home gardens and from the products of their pets. Surplus preserved by smoking or drying could be exchanged or sold at traveling traders.

history

Celtic , Roman , Visigoth and even Islamic - Moorish finds were not made. After the recapture ( reconquista ) of the city of Toledo by troops of Alfonso VI. of León in 1085 began the period of repopulation ( repoblación ) of the region with Christians from all parts of the Iberian Peninsula . The place is first mentioned in a document in 1135. Under Philip II , the place paid almost 900,000 maravedis for its independence in legal matters, etc. In 1709 Juan de Goyeneche acquired a large but uninhabited area in the west of the municipality and commissioned the construction of the place Nuevo Baztán . Until the 1950s it was officially called Olmeda de la Cebolla .

Iglesia de San Pedro

Attractions

The Iglesia de San Pedro was probably built in the 18th century. The through lunette exposed nave (nature) leads to a semi-circular apse with a baroque Altarretabel (retablo) .

Personalities

• Pedro Páez (1564–1622), Jesuit and missionary in Goa and Ethiopia , author of a history of Ethiopia

Web links

Commons : Olmeda de las Fuentes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Olmeda de las Fuentes, history and monuments - photo + 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. ↑ Olmeda de las Fuentes / Madrid - climate tables
3. ↑ Olmeda de las Fuentes - population development
4. ↑ Olmeda de las Fuentes - Church