Pozoblanco

Pozoblanco municipality
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Andalusia
Province :	Cordoba
Comarca :	Los Pedroches
Coordinates	38 ° 23 ′  N , 4 ° 51 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 23 ′  N , 4 ° 51 ′  W
Height :	654  msnm
Area :	329.92 km²
Residents :	17,210 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	52.16 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	E-14400
Municipality number  ( INE ):	14054
administration
Mayor :	Benito García de Torres PSOE
Address of the municipal administration:	Cronista Sepúlveda 2, 14400 Pozoblanco Tel .: [phone]
Website :	pozoblanco.es
Location of the municipality

Pozoblanco is a municipality in the province of Cordoba in Andalusia ( Spain ). It has 17,210 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) and is 86 kilometers from the provincial capital Córdoba .

geography

Pozoblanco is the place with the most inhabitants in the north of the province of Córdoba, which is formed by the comarcas Valle de los Pedroches and Alto Guadiato , followed by Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo (in the Alto Guadiato) with 12,171 inhabitants and Villanueva de Córdoba (in the Valle de los Pedroches) with 9,719 inhabitants. Pozoblanco is the economic and administrative capital of the Comarca Valle de los Pedroches. It has a district hospital and is the seat of the judiciary.

history

Pozoblanco Town Hall

City center

Probably the beginning of Pozoblanco, similar to the first settlement of the surrounding villages, such as Villanueva de Córdoba , dates back to the 14th century. During this time, many residents of neighboring Pedroche fled the plague . Other theories suggest that the people of Pedroche were choosing increasingly remote places to graze their cattle. In order not to have to travel the long way to the city every day, they formed small settlements where they spent their lives. Villages like Pozoblanco could have emerged from this. The first settlements arose in what is now known as the «Pozo Viejo» (Old Well), at the foot of a hill and near a well that was white because of the lime plaster, because only plastered bricks were used for simple buildings and not expensive ones Used granite blocks. This explains the name of the place. The fountain can be found in the municipality's coat of arms. The common name for the inhabitants of Pozoblancos is «tarugos». It comes from the name for timber (logs; tarugos de madera). Many people from Pozoblanco operated timber trade. They drove through the area in carts and distributed the logs. When they came into a village, they honked the horn. So that people could get from work to buy. They then ran over and shouted from afar: "¡¡Ya vienen los tarugos !!" - "There come the posts", by which they meant the wood. Ultimately, however, this name stuck to the people of Pozoblanco.

Initially, until 1478, Pozoblanco belonged to Pedroche. Then it acquired the title of city (villa), possibly from the hands of the Catholic Kings . In the Middle Ages, the history of Pozoblanco was closely linked to the history of the "Seven Cities of Los Pedroches" (Siete Villas de los Pedroches) ( Pedroche , Torremilano , Torrecampo , Pozoblanco, Villanueva de Córdoba , Alcaracejos and Añora ). This unity only broke up in 1836 and the parish land was returned to the villages. Pozoblanco received the city charter (ciudad) from the hand of King Alfonso XIII. on April 22, 1923. In the Spanish Civil War , the community was badly affected, probably also because it remained loyal to the Republic all along . In March 1937 it was the scene of the Battle of Pozoblanco (batalla de Pozoblanco), in which the forces of General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano tried to take the city. The resistance of the Republicans thwarted this, however, and the troops of the Ejército Popular de la República under Coronel Joaquín Pérez Salas managed to win a great victory over the Bando Sublevado . It was not until the end of March 1939 that the community was captured by the Franco armed forces and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (etapa franquista) was introduced in Pozoblanco.

On September 26, 1984 in the Plaza de Pozoblanco (Córdoba), Francisco Rivera Paquirri , together with El Yiyo and El Soro , was taken on the horns by a shrewd bull at the Ganadería de Sayalero y Bandrés . Important veins were injured in the attack and his pelvis and thighs were broken. He died while driving to the hospital.

politics

mayor

• 1987-2004: Antonio Fernández Ramírez (PSOE)
• 2004–2009: Benito García de Torres (PSOE / CDeI)
• 2009–2011: Baldomero García Carrillo (PP)
• 2011–2015: Pablo Carrillo Herrero (PSOE)
• 2015–2017: Emiliano Pozuelo Cerezo (PE +)
• 2017–2019: Santiago Cabello Muñoz (PP)

Municipal council elections

On May 24, 2015 the following were elected:

Results of the 2015 municipal council elections.

Political party	2015
	%	Seats (17)
Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE)	26.8	5
Partido Popular (PP)	26.4	5
Pozoblanco en Positivo (PE +)	24.9	4th
CdeI	10.9	2
Izquierda Unida (IU)	8.8	1

education

Pozoblanco has 8 training centers; two of them are private.

• CEIP Manuel Cano Damián
• CEIP Virgen de Luna
• CEIP Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
• IES Los Pedroches (Centro Bilingüe)
• IES Antonio María Calero (Centro Bilingüe)
• IES Ricardo Delgado Vizcaíno
• Colegio Salesiano San José (private)
• Colegio de Concepcionistas La Inmaculada (private)

In addition, there is the

• EOI Pozoblanco (Escuela Oficial de Idiomas, language school)

Attractions

Teatro El Silo.

Ermita de la Virgen de la Luna.

Patrimonio artístico y monumental :

Teatro El Silo

On September 8, 2006 the Teatro El Silo was opened. It is the work of the local architects José Luis Amor Trucios and Juan Salamanca Cabrera . The renovation work cost 3,483,233 euros and transformed a former grain silo into a theater with more than 800 seats. A recitation by Joan Manuel Serrat was presented at the opening . Other performances were the musical Believe (by a group of former students of the IES Los Pedroches) and Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) by García Lorca (by the local group Jara ). Internationally known artists such as Macarena Gómez , Carmen Ruiz , Marisol Ayuso have also performed.

Iglesia de Santa Catalina

The Iglesia de Santa Catalina was built in the 16th century but was not completed until the 19th century. This means that you can distinguish between the construction phases at a glance. The church suffered severe damage during the war but has been reconstructed. It houses the tomb of Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda , an important citizen of the city. The church is located in the center of the city, near the town hall. In the forecourt there is a large garden with the same name. The stork nests on the tower are also worth seeing.

More monuments

There are a few other churches and monuments in the city:

• Parish church Parroquia de San Bartolomé , single-nave village church from the 15th century
• Parroquia de San Sebastian , built on an older hermitage in the 16th century. Was elevated to a parish church in 1888.
• Hermitage of San Gregorio from the 14th century
• Santuario de la Virgen de la Luna , 14 km from the village
• Ermita de San Antonio (Santa Marta), from the 16th century, is the hermitage where the seven villas of los Pedroches celebrate together.
• Hospital de Jésus Nazareno , from the 17th century, renovated around 1931, with important Baroque works from the 18th century.
• Ermita de Jesús de la Columna single-nave church from 1704 with granite facade .

• Edificio de Ayuntamiento , town hall from the 19th century with an impressive facade.
• Plaza del Pozo Viejo is the old town center with the Casa de la Viga , one of the oldest houses in the city.
• Plaza de Toros , bullring from 1912 with 7000 seats.

In addition, the Celtic treasure Tesoro de los Almadenes was discovered in the municipality . it is now in the Museo Arqueológica Provincial . From Roman times there is only one mine (Mina la Romana)

Culture

Virgen de Luna
In February or March the patronage day of the municipality is celebrated: Ntra. Sra. Mº Stma. de Luna, a pilgrimage from the villages of Pozoblanco and Villanueva de Córdoba, goes to the sanctuary.

Semana Santa
A number of traditional associations and brotherhoods organize the Holy Week

• Cofradía Salesiana de la entrada de Jesús en Jerusalem "La Borriquita"
• Cofradía de Ntro Padre Jesús del Silencio amarrado a la Columna y María Santísima de la Salud.
• Hermandad de Ntro Padre Jesús Nazareno
• Hermandad Servita y cofradía de Nazarenas de Ntra Señora de los Dolores
• Hermandad de Ntro Padre Jesús Rescatado "Cristo de Medinaceli"
• Cofradía del Santísimo Cristo de la Caridad en su Vía Crucis
• Cofradía Salesiana del Santísismo Cristo del perdón y Ntra Sra. de la Amargura
• Cofradía de Soldados Romanos y Penitentes Sayones de Ntro Padre Jesús Nazareno
• Agrupación de Cofradías y Hermandades de Pozoblanco (Santo Entierro)
• Hermandad Nuestra Señora de la Soledad
• Hermandad sacramental y Cofradía de Nazarenos de Jesús Resucitado y Ntra. Sra. Mª Stma. de Luna

This also includes the Pro-hermandad de María Santísima de la Encarnación

Sports

The modern sports stadium.

Plaza de Toros de Pozoblanco, the bullring

Rally
The Escuderia Sierra Morena de Pozoblanco takes place for amateurs and professional drivers and runs through the whole Valle de los Pedroches . There are two time trials for the Campeonato de Andalucía de Cronometradas , 2 rally sprints for the Campeonato de Andalucía de Rallyes and 2 rallies for the Campeonato de España de Rallyes de Tierra .

Sport fishing
Pozoblanco has a large fishing community and in 1992 the Club de pesca deportiva de Pozoblanco was founded and in 2014 it had 100 members. He has weekly events and runs a fishing school for children and teenagers.

Tennis
Pozoblanco is the venue for the Open Diputación Ciudad de Pozoblanco , the fourth most important tennis competition in Spain. Every year at the end of August the competitions are held in the Instalaciones del Polideportivo Municipal . The competition is organized by the Club Deportivo Open de Tenis «Ciudad de Pozoblanco» . This club also has a tennis school (Escuela Municipal de Tenis).

Basketball
Basketball is offered by two organizations: the Escuela Municipal de Baloncesto and the Club Promesas de Baloncesto de Pozoblanco .

Handball
Handball is organized by the Club Balonmano Pozoblanco .

Football
The Club Deportivo Pozoblanco is a semi-professional club in the Tercera División Española .

sons and daughters of the town

• Antonio Porras Marquez , poet, writer, essayist, biographer, critic, diplomat and lawyer of the 20th century
• Monseñor José Proceso Pozuelo y Herrero, Bishop of the Diocese of Cordoba , (* 1828).
• Antonio María Calero, professor and historian (1943–1987).
• Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (1490–1573), humanist of the 16th century and official chronicler of Charles V.
• Juan Fernández Franco , 16th century writer.
• Marcos Redondo Valencia , musician.

Community partnerships

• Le Mée-sur-Seine , France
• Meckenheim (Rhineland) , Germany

Web links

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

• Photos by Pozoblanco
• Pozoblanco in the Statistical System of the Province of Andalucía.
• The Semana Santa de Pozoblanco in the Cordobapedia.

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. ↑ Ramón Salas Larrazábal: Historia del Ejército Popular de la República . Pp. 1137-1140
3. ↑ Patricia Navarro: 'Tranquilo, doctor'. Las palabras del torero que conmovió a España . In: La Razón , September 20, 2009, pp. 76-77.
4. ^ Resultado Elecciones Municipales en Pozoblanco . Retrieved May 25, 2015.
5. ↑ Biografía de Antonio Porras Márquez , página de Cordobapedia.
6. ↑ Ciudades españolas hermanadas con otras de Europa ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Federación Española de Municipios y Provincias.