Villahoz

Villahoz municipality
Villahoz - Tympanum of the Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Burgos
Comarca :	Arlanza (Comarca)
Coordinates	42 ° 5 ′  N , 3 ° 55 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 5 ′  N , 3 ° 55 ′  W
Height :	825  msnm
Area :	50.53 km²
Residents :	293 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	5.8 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	09343
Municipality number  ( INE ):	09437
administration
Website :	Villahoz

Villahoz is a place and a northern Spanish rural municipality ( municipio ) with only 293 inhabitants (at January 1, 2019) in the west of the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon .

Location and climate

The place Villahoz is about 3 km north of the Río Arlanza in the Castilian plateau (meseta) a good 40 km (driving distance) southwest of the provincial capital Burgos at an altitude of about 825  m ; the historically significant town of Lerma is only 16 km to the south-east. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 505 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2018
Residents	1,053	1,259	1,060	401	309

The mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the associated loss of jobs have led to a significant decline in the number of inhabitants since the middle of the 20th century ( rural exodus ).

economy

The inhabitants of the rural community live mainly from agriculture (agriculture, cattle breeding and viticulture); the community is part of the Arlanza (DO) wine-growing region . Since the 1960s, the summer rental of holiday homes (casas rurales) has also played a certain economic role.

history

Almost nothing is known about the origins of the place. Celtic , Roman , Visigoth and even Moorish traces are missing. In the early 10th century, the area was conquered by the Christians under the leadership of King Alfonso III. recaptured ( reconquista ) and then repopulated or repopulated ( repoblación ) ; The place was probably built around this time. On March 25, 1608, Philip III sold the manorial rule (señorio) over Villahoz and more than 300 other places in the area to Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas , the Duke of Lerma.

Attractions

Villahoz - city gate

• The Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora , dedicated to the Assumption of Mary , is a three-aisled hall church from the 16th century, which was built on the site of a previous medieval building. The most important component is the south portal with a figurative tympanum from around 1510 attributed to Francisco de Colonia ; it shows the scene of the Lamentation of Christ . In the interior of the church, spanned by star vaults , there are several imposing baroque altarpieces (retablos) ; even the two eastern round pillars are lavishly clad.
• A slender late-Gothic court column (roller blind) stands on a stepped round base immediately next to the south transept .
• Many houses in the village still show their foundation walls made of natural stone, over which walls made of adobe bricks often rose.
• An unadorned city ​​gate reminds of the former existence of a city fortification.

Surroundings

• About 2 km in the direction of Burgos is the Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Madrigal , built in the 18th century , which still has a Romanesque apse . The chapel recalls the miraculous discovery of a statue of the Virgin Mary.

Web links

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

• Villahoz - Infos (wikiburgos, 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. ↑ Villahoz - climate tables
3. ↑ Villahoz - population development
4. ↑ Villahoz Church
5. ↑ Villahoz Church
6. ↑ Villahoz - Ermita