Trijueque

Trijueque municipality
Landscape near Trijueque
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile-La Mancha
Province :	Guadalajara
Comarca :	La Alcarria
Coordinates	40 ° 47 ′  N , 3 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 47 ′  N , 3 ° 0 ′  W
Height :	995  msnm
Area :	35.63 km²
Residents :	1.201 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	33.71 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	19192
Municipality number  ( INE ):	19290
administration
Website :	Trijueque

Trijueque is a central Spanish city and a municipality ( municipio ) with a total of 1,201 inhabitants (as of January 1 2019) in the province of Guadalajara in the autonomous region of Castile-La Mancha . The municipality belongs to the sparsely populated region of the Serranía Celtibérica .

Location and climate

The village of Trijueque, which is almost 1000  m high, is on the west side of the Iberian Mountains . The provincial capital Guadalajara is approx. 23 km (driving distance) in a southwest direction. 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	789	690	533	465	1,201

Due to the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting loss of jobs, the population of the municipality would have declined sharply since the middle of the 20th century ( rural exodus ) if the first section of the Autovía A, which passed directly by the village, were not in 1990 -2 ( Madrid - Saragossa ) opened; As a result, several companies settled in and created new jobs.

economy

Agriculture was only possible to a limited extent in the largely flat but dry landscape; one therefore devoted itself primarily to the planting of vines and olive trees, which determine the landscape.

history

The origins of the place are in the dark; Celtic - Iberian Roman , Visigoth and even Moorish traces are missing. Possibly the place emerged only in the phase of repopulation ( repoblación ) after the reconquest ( reconquista ) of the areas south of the Duero in the years between 1031 and 1085. Alfonso VI. von León incorporated the place into the Comúnidad de la Villa y Tierra de Hita . Around the middle of the 15th century the place belonged to the manor (señorio) of Iñigo López de Mendoza from the house of Mendoza , which lasted until the abolition of all manors in the first half of the 19th century.

Attractions

• The most important attraction of the place is the Plaza Mayor with the town hall (ayuntamiento) , a building from the 16th century with the stone coats of arms of the house of Mendoza and the Spanish crown.
• The Iglesia de la Asunción , which stands on the western edge of the town and was built in the 16th century from quarry stones (mampostería) , but largely collapsed a long time ago, has a rather simple south portal in the Renaissance style .
• An approximately 15 m high tower (torreon) was part of the city fortifications. The approximately 2.50 m high entrance could only be reached via a ladder.

Surroundings

• The 17th century Ermita de Soledad on the other side of the motorway has a two-part portal.
• In the vineyards there are still several stone huts as shelters for the field guards.

Personalities

• Miguel López de la Serna , Franciscan, Bishop of the Canary Islands from 1486 to 1490

Web links

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

• Trijueque, tourism site - brief 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. ↑ Trijueque - climate tables
3. ↑ Trijueque - population development