Palmaces de Jadraque

Parish of Pálmaces de Jadraque
Pálmaces de Jadraque - reservoir
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile-La Mancha
Province :	Guadalajara
Comarca :	Serranía de Guadalajara
Coordinates	41 ° 3 ′  N , 2 ° 55 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 3 ′  N , 2 ° 55 ′  W
Height :	920  msnm
Area :	29.41 km²
Residents :	41 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	1.39 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	19245
Municipality number  ( INE ):	19208
administration
Website :	Palmaces de Jadraque

Pálmaces de Jadraque is a central Spanish place and a municipality ( municipio ) with only 41 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the province of Guadalajara in the autonomous region of Castile-La Mancha . The municipality belongs to the sparsely populated region of the Serranía Celtibérica .

Location and climate

The approximately 920  m high place Pálmaces de Jadraque is located on the south bank of the Río Cañamares or the Pálmaces reservoir in the southern foothills of the Castilian Divide Mountains . The provincial capital Guadalajara is approx. 67 km (driving distance) in a south-westerly direction; the worth seeing place Sigüenza is only approx. 20 km (air line), but approx. 45 km (driving distance) to the east. The climate in winter is temperate, while in summer it is warm to hot; the rather low amounts of precipitation (approx. 455 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	421	421	389	69	41

As a result of the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting loss of jobs, the population of the municipality has decreased significantly since the middle of the 20th century ( rural exodus ).

economy

The people of earlier centuries lived mainly as self-sufficiency from agriculture and livestock farming , whose durable products (cheese, sausage, animal skins and wool) could be exchanged or sold at traveling traders.

history

Celts , Romans , Visigoths and even the Moors left no usable traces. In the second half of the 11th century the latter were by the army of King Alfonso VI. driven out of the region by León ( reconquista ) ; then the phase of new or resettlement ( repoblación ) began by Christians from many parts of the Iberian Peninsula . A written mention of the place name from the Middle Ages is not known and so it is assumed that it originated in the 13th or 14th century. No later news is available.

Attractions

• The local church (Iglesia de la Natividad) is a building from the 17th / 18th centuries. Century with a bell tower (campanario) in the west and a decorated portal on the south side. The vaulted nave (nave) hides a wrought iron pulpit (pulpito) with a staircase of the same kind.
• Some houses in the village are unplastered and show their old stone walls.
• The Ermita de la Soledad with its portico is about 15 m above the lake shore.

Surroundings

• Almost 3 km to the east - roughly on the border with the neighboring town of Angón - are the ruins of the Castillo de Inesque from Moorish times.

literature

• Tomás Gismera Velasco: Pálmaces de Jadraque en la Historia. Self-published 2020, ISBN 979-86-38020-97-2 .

Web links

Commons : Pálmaces de Jadraque  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pálmaces de Jadraque - Photos + Info (Spanish)
• Pálmaces de Jadraque - Photos (flickr)

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. ↑ Pálmaces de Jadraque - climate tables
3. ↑ Pálmaces de Jadraque - Population development
4. ↑ Pálmaces de Jadraque - Castillo de Inesque