Sencelles

Sencelles municipality
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Balearic Islands
Island:	Mallorca
Comarca :	Plà de Mallorca
Coordinates	39 ° 39 ′ N , 2 ° 54 ′ E Coordinates: 39 ° 39 ′ N , 2 ° 54 ′ E
Height :	120 msnm
Area :	52.52 km²
Residents :	3,290 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	62.64 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	07140
Municipality number ( INE ):	07047
Nearest airport :	Palma ( Son Sant Joan / Palma de Mallorca , 18 km )
administration
Official language :	Catalan , Castilian
Mayor :	Joan Carles Verd Cirer ( Més )
Address of the municipal administration:	Plaça Espanya, 7 ; 07140 Sencelles
Website :	www.ajsencelles.net
Location of the municipality
Mallorca;

Sencelles (Spanish: Sancellas) is a municipality on the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca . It is located in the interior of the island in the landscape area of the Pla and covers a total of 52 km². On January 1, 2019, 3290 inhabitants were registered in the municipality. In 2006 the proportion of foreigners was 11.6% (317), the proportion of German residents 4.1% (113). The parish is one of the largest in the Pla and one of the flattest. There are no elevations over 160 meters here. It is traversed by the Torrent de Solleric , which runs through Biniali, where it changes its name to Torrent d'Almedra , better known in the north as Torrent s'Ostorell and Torrent de Pina .

geography

Places of the community

The following places belong to the municipality of Sencelles:

Biniali (221/221 inhabitants)
Ca's Cana (no residents)
Jornets (14/14 inhabitants)
Ruberts (15/15 inhabitants)
Sencelles (1290/2756 inhabitants)
Son Arrosa (no residents)

The population figures in brackets are from January 1, 2008. The first number indicates the residents of the built-up areas, the second number the residents of the towns, including the “scattered” population outside the actual settlements. (Source: INE )

Place Sencelles

Sencelles, the administrative center of the municipality, is the place of the hundred names, the place name that has given rise to most speculation about its origin. So some take the view that Sencelles means cent selles (one hundred jugs), others think it means cent celles (one hundred parcels), still others derive the name from centelles (sparkle, glitter) and there are many more hypotheses that most, however, are based on imagination and an eagerness to unravel the mystery that certain words hold within them.

Sencelles is a village of villages . In addition to Biniali, the community also includes the villages of Ruberts, Jornets, Judi, Cascanar and Laia. These represent - although they are tiny and almost uninhabited - one of the main attractions of Sencelles. Today they are the last sites of the rural and traditional architecture of Mallorca. In earlier times, however, they were prosperous, primarily from viticulture, the main agricultural activity of the parish and its surroundings.

Other products of dry field cultivation such as figs, almonds and grain, together with cattle breeding, were the main industries in this region almost to this day. Fig production is still of paramount importance today.

The human and religious facet of the place is illustrated by the figure of the sister Francinaina Cirer (1781–1855), the daughter of the place popularly known as 'di sa Tia Xiroia'. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 1, 1989 and is venerated not only in Sencelles, but throughout Mallorca for the numerous healings attributed to her.

The sound of the shawms in Sencelles is particularly festive and cheerful, because it calls on people to abandon the fieldwork and enjoy the traditional songs that their ancestors have played and heard as long as memories go back. The island's most famous shawm players and builders have always come from Sencelles. A great mastery in this field has been achieved here and it seems like the future of this beautiful tradition is.

climate

In Sencelles, rainfall is recorded all year round. The driest month is July with an average of 8.8 l / m². In October the highest amount of precipitation is recorded with an average of 100 l / m².

history

The grave cave Cova des Camp des Bisbe on the northeastern edge of the village dates from the pre-Talaiotic period . The Talaiotic era left numerous traces in Sencelles, the most important of which is the Talaiot de Son Fred . At the time of the Arab rule, Sencelles belonged to the district of Canarossa alongside Binissalem, Alaró , Santa Maria, Santa Eugenia, Costitx and Lloseta. With the conquest of Mallorca by Jaume l . these extensive lands become the property of Vescomt de Bearn. At that time Costitx was the parish of the district of Canarossa until 1238 Sencelles took over this function. Later Sencelles is part of the Jaume II . In 1309, the reorganization of the villages was completed, including the farms of Biniali, Costitx and Cascanar.

By the end of the 16th century, the Biniali farm had already turned into a small settlement. At the end of the 19th century, the entire viticulture around Sencelles was destroyed by a phylloxera epidemic and the small villages that had emerged with the upswing slowly depopulated and lost their importance.

The human and religious facet of the place is illustrated by the figure of the sister Francinaina Cirer (1781–1855), the daughter of the place popularly known as di sa Tia Xiroia . She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 1, 1989 and is venerated not only in Sencelles, but throughout Mallorca for the numerous healings attributed to her.

Costitx broke away from Sencelles in 1855 after long years of rivalry and confrontation between the two towns.

The localities that belong to Sencelles are currently gaining life from the fact that numerous second homes have been established here.

Number of inhabitants
(source: INE ; up to 1860 including Costitx)
year	1842	1877	1887	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1981	1991	2001	2011
Residents	4.033	3,162	3,379	3,346	3,423	3,273	2,953	2,882	2,450	2.120	2.012	1,630	1,671	2.146	3.128

Culture and sights

Waypoints: Creu de Can Maví, Creu de Sa Cometa, Creu de s'Era d'en Pelat, Creu des Rafal.
Windmills: Can Picapebre, Can Cinto, d'en Ferreró, Son Pelea
Talayotic culture - sources: Son Fred , Binifat , Can Xim (Cas Canar)

Churches: Església Parroquial de Sant Cristòfol a Biniali, Església de la Mare de Déu del Carme a Ruberts and Església parroquial de Sant Pere de Sencelles built in 1705.

Festivals

February 5th: Santa Agueda. In the night before, bonfires with sausage grills in the alleys, folkloric performances, competition for the most magnificent carriages.
February 27: Beata Sor Francinaina . The children of the village, dressed in folk costume, offer the pious a gift of flowers.
2nd Sunday in May: Romería de Sa Casa Blanca. The pilgrimage takes place on foot, on horseback, in a carriage and by tractor.
3rd Sunday in May: Sencelles celebrates its big fair with agricultural and Automobile fair, a show of specimens of the sheep u. Goat breeding and artisan market. The following Monday, on a smaller scale, the local Es Firó fair is held.
August 15th: Mare de Déu de agosto. Sporting and musical events, theater, fireworks ...

Markets

Weekly market every Wednesday on Plaça Nova.

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).

literature

Between 1869 and 1891 , a nine-volume monumental work by the famous traveler Archduke Lluis Salvador was published in Leipzig , it is still a reliable and precise testimony to that era, The Balearic Islands in words and pictures (original edition 1897)
Ramón Llull: Secreta secretorum (original edition 1592)
David Abulafia: El reino catalán de Mallorca (original edition Barcelona 1996)
Francesc Borja Moll: Històrica catalan (original edition Valencia 1991)

Web links

Commons : Sencelles - Collection of images, videos and audio files

www.ajsencelles.net (Catalan, Spanish, English, German)
Informació de l'Institut d'Estadística de les Illes Balears

[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).