Santibáñez de Esgueva

Municipality of Santibáñez de Esgueva
Santibáñez de Esgueva - Ermita de San Salvador
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Burgos
Comarca :	Ribera del Duero
Coordinates	41 ° 50 ′  N , 3 ° 46 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 50 ′  N , 3 ° 46 ′  W
Height :	920  msnm
Area :	22.25 km²
Residents :	83 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	3.73 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	09350
Municipality number  ( INE ):	09355
administration
Website :	Santibáñez de Esgueva

Santibáñez de Esgueva is a northern Spanish town and municipality ( municipio ) with only 83 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the south of the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile-León .

Toponym

The name of the place refers to St. Iván or Iban , behind which John the Baptist hides; the addition Esgueva refers to the nearby river and was only added in the 19th century.

Location and climate

The place Santibáñez de Esgueva is located in the valley of the Río Esgueva at an altitude of about 920  m . The city of Burgos is just under 65 km (driving distance) to the north; the nearest town is Aranda de Duero (approx. 28 km south). The climate in winter is harsh, but in summer it is temperate and warm; Rain (approx. 500 mm / year) falls mainly in the winter half-year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	-	-	408	159	85

The mechanization of agriculture and the abandonment of small farms led to a lack of jobs and a significant decline in the number of inhabitants ( rural exodus ) since the 1950s .

economy

In the past, Santibáñez de Esgueva was a self-sufficient farming village in the fertile Esgueva Valley. The field work is done by only a few farmers today; some houses are rented out as holiday apartments (casas rurales) in summer .

history

No evidence has yet been found from the Celtic , Roman , Visigothic and Islamic periods. In the 8th and early 9th centuries, the area was under Islamic influence, but the area was neither permanently settled nor defended by the Berbers due to the unusually harsh and rainy climate . At the end of the 9th century, the Castilian Count Diego Rodríguez Porcelos received from King Alfons III. of Asturias the order to repopulate ( repoblación ) the depopulated land. The first mention of the place name comes from a document from 1190, but the Romanesque chapel already existed at that time. Until the 1920s Santibáñez de Esgueva belonged to the neighboring municipality of Cabañes de Esgueva .

Attractions

Portal of the Hermit Church

• The single-nave church of the place is dedicated to the gracious Virgin Mary (Nuestra Señora da las Mercedes) ; it is a rather unadorned building from the 16./17. Century with a west tower .
• A late Gothic court column (roller blind) on the side in front of the church, erected in the early 16th century on an octagonal base, testifies to the former civic pride .

outside

• The towerless Romanesque Ermita de San Salvador probably dates from the middle of the 12th century and is located on a mountain slope about 1 km southwest of the village. Impressive is the exact stonework of the walls and of the main components - including the one with half-columns templates and a aufruhenden arched Fries provided apse and located on the south side multi-stepped archivolts portal whose capitals a beinespreizende siren show and a flügelspreizendes bird being; even a dragon can still be seen. The outer portal arch is framed by the remains of a jagged frieze .

Web links

Commons : Santibáñez de Esgueva  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Santibáñez de Esgueva - Photos + Info (wikiburgos, Spanish)
• Santibáñez de Esgueva; Ermita - Photos + Info (Flickr, Spanish)
• Santibáñez de Esgueva - Photos + 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. ↑ Santibáñez de Esgueva - Climate tables
3. ↑ Santibáñez de Esgueva - population development
4. ^ Santibáñez de Esgueva - History