Paracuellos de Jarama

Paracuellos de Jarama parish
Paracuellos del Jarama town hall
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Madrid
Province :	Madrid
Comarca :	Cuenca del Medio Jarama
Coordinates	40 ° 33 ′  N , 3 ° 31 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 33 ′  N , 3 ° 31 ′  W
Height :	688  msnm
Area :	43.92 km²
Residents :	25,269 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	575.34 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	28860
Municipality number  ( INE ):	28104
administration
Website :	www.paracuellosdejarama.es

Paracuellos de Jarama is a Spanish municipality ( municipality ) in the autonomous community of Madrid . It is located northeast of Madrid near Madrid-Barajas Airport . The Jarama River flows west of the town center .

history

In the 12th century, the Santiagoorden received an estate in Paracuellos as a commander , which fell to the House of Habsburg at the beginning of the 16th century . In 1589 the commandery was awarded to Wolf Rumpf by Philip II .

During the Battle of Madrid at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War , several thousand political prisoners were probably murdered by republican militias by scheduled shootings on the banks of the Arroyo de San José river, which belongs to Paracuellos, in the vicinity of today's airport and in neighboring Torrejón de Ardoz in November 1936 . The exact number of deaths is unknown and controversial, serious estimates assume around 2,500 victims. The massacres began on November 7th and lasted until December 4th, 1936, the prisoners were brought in groups by bus from the Madrid prisons to the forest area. The victims were partisans of the insurgent nationalists from the military and the administrative apparatus, Catholic clergy and activists and other actual or suspected supporters of the nationalist uprising under Francisco Franco or opponents of the Popular Front government who were tracked down and imprisoned in Madrid after the outbreak of the civil war had been.

Web links

Commons : Paracuellos de Jarama  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website

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. ↑ revistaiberica.com: Paracuellos del Jarama , accessed on January 8, 2019 (Spanish)
3. ^ Felix Stieve:  Rumpf zum Wülroß, Wolfgang Siegmund . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 668 f.
4. ↑ Spain / Franco - Long live death . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1959 ( online ).
5. ^ Paracuellos - The Elimination of the Fifth Column in Republican Madrid during the Spanish Civil War . Book Presentation of the Sussex Academic (2016), accessed on August 3, 2020 (English).
6. ^ Paracuellos Massacres Cross at the Madrid Airport . Atlas Obscura, accessed September 4, 2017.
7. ↑ Peter Wolter : Class conscious in the dead end. In: Junge Welt , September 26, 2012, full text retrieved from Die Linke Weißenburg in Bavaria on August 3, 2020.