Andelma ISSN: 1579-7805 ISSN-e: 2386-3811

The Giménez family's Hilaturas del Segura. A saga of industrialists and inventors in Cieza 1919-1999

2025-04-19T19:12:20+00:00

The professional activities of the Giménez family are analysed. José María and Diego Giménez Moreno developed the esparto grass industry in Cieza known as Hilaturas del Segura with a wide catalogue of manufactured esparto grass products and several inventions. The factory would be continued by Diego's sons: the eldest of the same name, Pascual and Sixto, who would also run the Giménez Hardware Store, started by their father, in addition to developing new machines and marketing manufactured goods and carpets in the midst of the esparto grass crisis.

German submarines at the coast of Murcia: a short tale of a supposed support in wartimes

2025-04-24T10:41:48+00:00

The resupply of German submarines at the harbours and the coasts of neutral Spain in both WW1 and WW2 is out of question. But there seem to be reasonable doubts about the supply as far as the Mediterranean area is concerned. The present article revises the accessible evidences in order to see, up to what point these doubts are justified.

Cieza and the War of Independence

2025-04-24T11:30:49+00:00

Life in the town of Cieza during the period of the War of Independence unfolds, in addition to its warlike aspects, amidst a series of social crises that include elements of health, agricultural or climatic calamities, all of which is linked to serious problems in the institution of municipal government, with a lack of liquidity in its treasury and the flight of its oligarchy to other municipalities. In addition to what is known so far, the discovery of new documents contemporary to the first moments of the war allows us to expand on aspects of what was happening in the town at that time.

Sowing and harvesting of maize in the area surrounding Almadenes, Cieza

2025-04-24T11:55:46+00:00

The cultivation and harvest of maize in the area around Almadenes, Cieza (Murcia), involved a series of processes marked by the characteristics of the land and by the farming families that inhabited this Ciezan enclave throughout the 20th century. Their memory, in particular their oral memory, is considered to posses a natural heritage value for the study of agricultural practices in the area and the accompanying entertainment habits.

Roldan House

2025-04-24T12:12:41+00:00

Continuing with our desire to remember some buildings that were part of the urban landscape of Cieza, now disappeared, we bring to mind an interesting and monumental mansion from the 18th century.

The cieza of Andalucia. Captivity and freedom of a people

2025-04-24T12:28:00+00:00

Suffering captivity was one of the consequences of living in a border territory, and the paradox is that Cieza suffered two Granada raids in the 15th century, and in both, in addition to the destruction of the town and the burning of the fields, most of its population was captured and taken to Granada as booty. The vision that was held from the Christian side, although true, is not entirely consistent with the data we have from the Granada side, since apostasy and concubinage were very present. In the following text, we intend to study the presence of Ciezan captives in the kingdom of Granada, both before and after the conquest by the Catholic Monarchs. We present a case study, in which, in addition, we would like to establish the possible relationship of a large - although undetermined - group of new settlers of captive origin who remained in the incipient Christian kingdom, and investigate the possible cultural mark they left.

The Arrest Group, an “unknown” work for Cartagena by Manuel Juan Carrillo Marco and Manuel Carrillo García

2025-04-24T20:39:28+00:00

In the knowm catalogs –both on paper and in digital format- of the sculptural production of Manuel Juan Carrillo Marco, it is surprising not to find a work of importance such as the Prendimiento group, owner of the Cartagena brotherhood dedicated to said devotion –popularly knowm as Cofradía California-, so in this work we collect the details of its commission and realization to replace the disappeared group, due to the gouges of Francisco Salzillo and Juan Porcel, and the evolution that the ciezano artist’s carvings have undergone since their creation between 1939 and 1940, as well as the reasons why it si posible that Carrillo wanted to ‘forget’ this work, and which was its partial replacement by a work by Benlliure.

Industry and inventiveness in Calasparra. The Alvarez family and their flour factory

2025-04-24T21:21:54+00:00

We study the flour industry of the Álvarez family in Calasparra. The figure of the company's initiator, Juan Álvarez Pastor, his efforts to modernize his industry and the different stages of technological change and passing of the business to his widow and children. In addition to the notable figure of inventor and machinery builder of one of his sons, the miller leader Francisco Álvarez Espín, with five patents registered between the sixties and eighties of the 20th century. The invention, development, manufacturing and marketing in Spain and abroad of the densigraph, which represented a revolution in the quality control of flour.

Excellent reception of our 3rd Congress on the History of Ojós and the Ricote Valley

2025-04-24T21:44:42+00:00

25th Anniversary Exhibition

2025-04-24T21:51:47+00:00

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2025-04-19T18:39:58+00:00

The regulations for the order and holding of the sessions of the Cieza City Council 1883-1901

2025-04-24T21:38:15+00:00