Pomer (Saragossa)

Pomer municipality
Pomer - Bodegas
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Zaragoza
Comarca :	Aranda (Spain)
Coordinates	41 ° 38 ′  N , 1 ° 50 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 38 ′  N , 1 ° 50 ′  W
Height :	1105  msnm
Area :	33.11 km²
Residents :	22 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	0.66 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	50259
Municipality number  ( INE ):	50214
administration
Website :	Pomer

Pomer is a northern Spanish town and municipality ( municipio ) with only 22 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the northwest of the province of Saragossa in the west of the autonomous region of Aragon . The place belongs to the poorly populated Serranía Celtibérica .

Location and climate

The place Pomer is located on a hill above the headwaters of the Río Aranda at the foot of the Sierra de Moncayo, which is a maximum of  2315  m high, about 130 km (driving distance) west of the provincial capital Saragossa near the border with the old Castilian province of Soria at an altitude of about 1105  m ; the lovely town of Calatayud is just 50 km south. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 510 mm / year) falls throughout the year with the exception of the summer months.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	368	464	367	27	27

The mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the associated loss of jobs led to a significant decline in the population ( rural exodus ) in the second half of the 20th century .

economy

For centuries, the residents of the village lived directly or indirectly as self-sufficiency from agriculture, which also included livestock farming. Today orchards play an essential role in the economic life of the place; In addition, holiday apartments (casas rurales) are rented out.

history

Traces of Celtiberian , Roman and Visigoth settlement have not yet been discovered. In the 8th century Arab-Moorish armies penetrated into the upper Ebro Valley, but apparently did not get as far as Pomer. Around 1120 the area was recaptured by Alfonso I of Aragon ( reconquista ) . It was later disputed between the kingdoms of Aragon and Castile . The territorial dispute with Castile only ended with the marriage of the Catholic Kings Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragón in 1469.

Attractions

• The parish church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción dates from the mid-16th century. While the single-nave church, with the exception of the corner stones and the portal, was built from uncut quarry stones, the bell storey is made of precisely hewn stone . The nave and the polygonal choir are spanned by late Gothic rib vaults; here are some capitals of the previous Romanesque building .
• From the 17th to the 19th century, several rock cellars ( bodegas ) were carved into the crumbly rock in the vicinity of the village .

Web links

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

• Pomer, tourism site - photos + information (Spanish)
• Pomer, tourism site - 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. ↑ Pomer / Aranda de Moncayo - climate tables
3. ↑ Pomer - population development
4. ^ Pomer - Iglesia