Aldeas coloniales desaparecidas durante la etapa foral en las Nuevas Poblaciones de Sierra Morena y Andalucía (1767-1835)

Resumen

The arrival of 6,000 German and Flemish Catholic settlers, starting from 1767, to the New Populations of Sierra Morena and Andalusia posed the challenge of settling them in an uninhabited territory, initially trying a dispersed settlement. However, the diverse results of its implementation forced those responsible for the project to combine the disseminated with villages in lower Andalusia, while in Sierra Morena, they ended up centralising the majority of the population in villages. The early disappearance of some of the nuclei, mainly in the mountains, leads us to analyse some of the factors that could have mediated their early abandonment, such as population crisis, orography, torrential rains, the Spanish War of Independence (Peninsular War), the low quality of the constructions, the loss of importance of communication routes, etc. In this way, we will know the dynamics to which they were subjected, which made it possible for them to be abandoned and forgotten only a few decades after their foundation.