Renera

Renera municipality
Renera - town center with town hall (ayuntamiento) and church (Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción)
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile-La Mancha
Province :	Guadalajara
Comarca :	La Alcarria
Coordinates	40 ° 30 ′  N , 3 ° 1 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 30 ′  N , 3 ° 1 ′  W
Height :	710  msnm
Area :	20.23 km²
Residents :	90 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	4.45 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	19145
Municipality number  ( INE ):	19233
administration
Website :	Renera

Renera is a central Spanish town and municipality ( municipio ) with only 90 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 710  m high place Renera is located in the center of the Alcarria landscape in the north of the southern part of the Iberian plateau ( meseta ) . Guadalajara , the provincial capital, is about 32 km (driving distance) to the northwest; the lovely town of Pastrana is only about 18 km southeast. 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	621	486	345	64	90

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 ). The renewed population increase at the beginning of the 21st century can be explained by the relative proximity to the eastern cities in the greater Madrid area.

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 began the phase of repopulation ( repoblación ) by Christians from many parts of the Iberian Peninsula . A written mention of the place name from the High Middle Ages is not known and so it is assumed that the place was founded in the 12th to 14th centuries. In 1543 the place received city ​​rights (villazgo) .

Renera - Church

Attractions

• The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción , built in the 16th century from rubble stones and originally single-nave, but later enlarged, is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary . It has a three-arched bell gable (espadaña) above the otherwise unadorned west facade, which was probably added or renewed later ; the portal of the church is on the south side and shows peculiar Renaissance forms .
• The two-storey south facade of the town hall (ayuntamiento) , which was built in the 16th or 17th century, is almost completely open to the south through two galleries . Stone columns were built into the lower portico while wooden pillars were used on the upper floor.

Web links

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

• Renera - short information (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. ↑ Renera / Pastrana - climate tables
3. ↑ Renera - population development
4. ↑ Renera - History