Pinilla de Jadraque

Pinilla de Jadraque municipality
	Pinilla de Jadraque - Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Anunciación
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile-La Mancha
Province :	Guadalajara
Comarca :	La Alcarria
Coordinates	41 ° 1 ′ N , 2 ° 57 ′ W Coordinates: 41 ° 1 ′ N , 2 ° 57 ′ W
Height :	855 msnm
Area :	13.27 km²
Residents :	50 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	3.77 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	19246
Municipality number ( INE ):	19218
administration
Website :	Pinilla de Jadraque

Pinilla de Jadraque is a central Spanish town and municipality ( municipio ) with only 50 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 ; the place is considered a possible stop on the Camino del Cid .

Location and climate

Pinilla de Jadraque, located about 855 m above sea level, is located in a loop of the Río Cañamares in the north of the Alcarria , a landscape in the north of the southern part of the Iberian plateau ( meseta ) . Guadalajara , the provincial capital, is approx. 60 km (driving distance) in a south-westerly direction; the worth seeing place Jadraque is only about 13 km south. The climate in winter is temperate, while in summer it is warm to hot; the rather low amounts of precipitation (approx. 440 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	234	212	218	88	50

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

The Celts , Romans , Visigoths and even the Moors left no usable traces on the municipality. 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 early Middle Ages is not known and so it is assumed that the place originated in the 11th or 12th century.

Church portal

Attractions

The impressive Iglesia de la Anunciación was built in the late 12th and early 13th centuries; the four-arched bell gable (espadaña) rests on the otherwise unadorned west wall of the church. This is the portico (galería porticada) surrounding the west and south and consists of double columns with mostly vegetable-decorated capitals . The plastered portal zone protrudes approx. 50 cm from the alignment of the masonry - a stepped portal with four archivolts could be created. The nave (nature) is gratgewölbt; the apse is unadorned.