Monasterio de Rodilla
Monasterio de Rodilla is a North Spanish municipality ( municipio ) in the center of the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile -Leon.
Location
The place Monasterio de Rodilla is about 880 meters above sea level. inst good 24 km ( driving distance ) northeast of Burgos; the next largest city, Briviesca, is a further 19 kilometers to the northeast.
Demographics
Economy
The inhabitants of Monasterio de Rodilla live mainly from agriculture (crops and small livestock ) in the fertile region of La Bureba. At the beginning of the third millennium, several wind parks ( Parques eólicos ) were added as important sources of income of the village.
History
The surroundings of the place was known in ancient times; Celts from the tribe of Autrigonen settled here and the Romans called their settlement later tritium Autrigonum. In the 8th and early 9th century, the area was under Islamic influence, but the area was not permanently settled yet defended because of the unusually harsh climate. End of the 9th century it was the Castilian Count Diego Rodríguez Porcelos of King Alfonso III. of Asturias, the order for the re-colonization ( repoblación ) of the depopulated area.
Attractions
- Built in the 16th century, but later repeatedly added parish church of Santa María Magdalena particularly impressed by their bell gable with side decorative obelisks. The nave interior of the church houses a wooden Romanesque crucifix.
- The town hall with its - designed in the manner of a triumphal arch mullioned portico - also dates from the 16th century.
- The church of Santa Marina in the same name, about a mile north-west, the hamlet, where an early -Gothic building with echoes of the late Romanesque period. The late Gothic apse, with its star- shaped rib vault was added in the 16th century.
- The former monastery church of Nuestra Señora del Valle, one -nave building from the late 12th century, is situated in a hollow near the hamlet of Santa Marina. Of the previously existing monastic buildings here also any trace missing. The church is built in late Romanesque style developed forms that are very probably borrowed from the French southwest room and came on the Camino Francés in this area. The stones are precisely trimmed and walled; Corners and side walls are stabilized by slim buttresses. The most striking elements are articulated through three broad arcades apse of a round stair tower accompanied crossing tower and the slightly protruding from the wall Archivolts portal on the north side. The most important architectural decoration are those below the eaves console friezes with their figurative, vegetable- or geometrically designed consoles, but also in the slightly sharpened portal to find grotesque heads and figuratively decorated capitals. All these figures have in common both a decorative and disastrous defensive ( apotropaic ) function.
Apse and transept
Portal console with Fries
Grimace at the portal
Head of a Woman
Grimace
Siren with fish body
Griffin
- The ruins of the castle (Castillo de Monasterio de Rodilla ) are located about two kilometers northwest of the village. The remains of walls obtained are attributed by some researchers still the late 9th century, when the Castilian Count Diego Rodríguez Porcelos of King Alfonso III. of Asturias received the order for re-colonization ( repoblación ) in the area. Others see the true irregular but rudimentary hewn stone evidence for a later date. Probably also the ( partial) reuse of stones of the nearby Roman town of tritium Autrigonum. The in a deed of the year 1011, first mentioned in the castle was made - together with the neighboring castles Castillo de Pancorbo and Castillo de Úrbel - a line of defense against Islamic attacks from the south of the peninsula.
- Of the approximately one kilometer northern - formerly Celtiberian - Roman city of tritium Autrigonum only a few remains have received to guess is an approximately circular wall, near which brick fragments and a few carved stones lying around. Also from the Celtic necropolis is not much to see.