Tendilla

Tendilla municipality
Tendilla - street with pillar houses (soportales)
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile-La Mancha
Province :	Guadalajara
Comarca :	La Alcarria
Coordinates	40 ° 33 ′  N , 2 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 33 ′  N , 2 ° 58 ′  W
Height :	790  msnm
Area :	22.84 km²
Residents :	307 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	13.44 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	19134
Municipality number  ( INE ):	19266
administration
Website :	Tendilla

Tendilla is a small town in central Spain and a municipality ( municipio ) with only 307 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the province of Guadalajara in the autonomous region of Castile-La Mancha . The municipality belongs to the poorly populated Serranía Celtibérica .

Location and climate

The approximately 790  m high place Tendilla is located in the north of the southern part of the Iberian plateau (meseta) . The provincial capital Guadalajara is a good 26 km (driving distance) northwest; the city of Madrid is approximately 77 km to the west. The climate in winter is temperate, while in summer it is warm to hot; the rather low amounts of precipitation (approx. 475 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	907	1,048	953	338	307

As a result of the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting unemployment in the countryside, the population of the municipality has decreased significantly since the middle of the 20th century.

economy

Agriculture played the most important role in the economic life of the municipality (agriculture, cattle breeding as well as wine and olive cultivation), which in earlier centuries mainly served for self-sufficiency . But also small traders and craftsmen have settled in the village since the end of the Middle Ages.

history

The origins of the place are in the dark, as Celtic - Iberian , Roman , Visigoth and even Moorish traces are missing. Possibly the place arose only in the phase of resettlement ( repoblación ) after the reconquest ( reconquista ) of Toledo in 1085. Already in 1394, the Castilian king Henry III. (r. 1390–1406) the town rights and put the captain general Diego Hurtado de Mendoza († 1404) from the house of Mendoza as a representative. Henry IV of Castile - after the reestablishment of the County of Tendilla in 1465 - appointed his son, Íñigo López de Mendoza y Figueroa († 1479), as 1st Count of Tendilla. His son, Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones († 1515) continued the family line and became 2nd Count of Tendilla. The 3rd count, Luis Hurtado de Mendoza y Pacheco († 1566), gave the order to build the church.

Attractions

Tendilla - Iglesia de la Asunción

• Many houses in the village have wooden pillars on the street side (soportales) , so that the shops behind them could be easily reached even in rainy weather or in strong sunlight.
• The Iglesia de la Asunción is one of the few examples of an unfinished church. The order was given to the architect Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón (1500–1577) around 1540; he planned a large hall church 56 m long and 25 m wide. The subsequent architects were reluctant to continue the work due to a lack of funds - so the church remained unfinished, but usable. At the end of the 18th century the free-standing bell tower (campanario) was built , which showed structural damage within a few years, so that the number of bells had to be reduced from 4 to 2.
• Only ruins remain of the former Hieronymites monastery.
• The Museo Encarnación Díaz de Yela is dedicated to rural life in the La Alcarria region .

Surroundings

• The former Franciscan monastery (Convento de Nuestra Señora de la Salceda), located just under 3 km northeast of the village, is also in ruins.

literature

• Antonio Herrera Casado: Tendilla - Historia y Arte. Aache Ediciones, Guadalajara 1994, ISBN 978-84-87743-53-5

Web links

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

• Tendilla, tourism site - photos + 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. ↑ Tendilla - climate tables
3. ↑ Tendilla - population development
4. ↑ Tendilla Church