Terrer

Terrer municipality
Terrer - town view with church
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Zaragoza
Comarca :	Comunidad de Calatayud
Coordinates	41 ° 20 ′  N , 1 ° 43 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 20 ′  N , 1 ° 43 ′  W
Height :	580  msnm
Area :	33.75 km²
Residents :	447 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	13.24 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	50293
Municipality number  ( INE ):	50253
administration
Website :	Terrer

Terrer is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) with a total of 447 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the west of the province of Saragossa in the autonomous region of Aragon in north-eastern Spain . The place is a station on the Camino del Cid ; it belongs to the poorly populated region of the Serranía Celtibérica .

Location and climate

The place Terrer is located on the north bank of the Río Jalón a good 92 km (driving distance) southwest of the provincial capital Saragossa at an altitude of approx. 580  m . The town of Calatayud, which is well worth seeing, is only approx. 7 km to the northeast. The climate is harsh in winter, but temperate to warm in summer; the rather sparse rain (approx. 390 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	978	980	1,747	625	479

As a result of increasing drought, the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of numerous small farms and the resulting lower demand for labor in rural areas, the number of inhabitants has continuously decreased since the middle of the 20th century as a result of the " rural exodus ".

economy

For centuries, the town's residents were essentially self-sufficient ; There were no grocery stores or markets, or only rarely. The few dealers, craftsmen and service providers were provided with the essentials by street vendors.

history

Both Celtic and Roman small finds have been discovered in the municipality of Terrer. In the 8th century, the area was overrun by Arab-Moorish armies, which were not pushed south until the beginning of the 12th century under Alfonso I of Aragón ( reconquista ) . In the following years, however, the region was fought over between the kingdoms of Aragón and Castile ( Guerra de los Dos Pedros ) and could not be finally connected to Aragón until 1454.

Attractions

• Hardly anything can be seen of the Moorish fortress (hisn) that used to exist here .
• In the 18th and 19th centuries, several rock cellars ( bodegas ) were carved into the crumbling stone of the castle hill ; they are rarely used today.
• The in 14./15. Iglesia de la Asunción , built in the 16th century, is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary . The basement and middle floors of the bell tower (campanar) are entirely made of bricks in the Mudéjar style ; the spire has the shape of a dome , which is rare in Spain . In the 18th century the nave and the side chapels , the transept and the crossing dome were given a Baroque style.

Web links

Commons : Terrer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Terrer, tourism site - photo + 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. ↑ Terrer - Camino del Cid
3. ↑ Terrer - climate tables
4. ↑ Terrer - population development
5. ↑ Terrer - Castillo
6. ↑ Terrer Church