Santibáñez de Esgueva
Municipality of Santibáñez de Esgueva | ||
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Santibáñez de Esgueva - Ermita de San Salvador
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Basic data | ||
Autonomous Community : | Castile and León | |
Province : | Burgos | |
Comarca : | Ribera del Duero | |
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 | |
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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
- 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
- Santibáñez de Esgueva - Photos + Info (wikiburgos, Spanish)
- Santibáñez de Esgueva; Ermita - Photos + Info (Flickr, Spanish)
- Santibáñez de Esgueva - Photos + Info (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Santibáñez de Esgueva - Climate tables
- ↑ Santibáñez de Esgueva - population development
- ^ Santibáñez de Esgueva - History