In number 42 of the very busy prospectus, La Albufer is the old building of the municipal council of Puente -de -Vallekas (in which municipal offices are located, the board is in full transition to a new building). Many neighbors do not know that classical fragrant property was once the city council of Vallek, before his annexation to the capital in 1950.
In previous years, the neighbors of what is now Vallecas Puente, who had already played with Madrid, were favorable to depend on the capital, while the neighbors of the old Valkes were more reluctant. Today it is a rather forgotten story that resonates, whether in the embodiment Barrionst And Vallekas It occurs after the arrival of the alluvion of migrants in the second half of the twentieth century.
Between 1948 and 1954, the territory of the city of Madrid grew from 64.8 km² to 609.09 km² on the coast of thirteen border municipalities. 800%. An increase in the population does not show such an impressive number, although it is also important, it decreased from 1,237,621 to 1,567,850 inhabitants (about 20%)
The idea of formulating what we know today, since the metropolitan space of Madrid had a story. The most important is the creation of the Commonwealth of limitrophic municipalities, which grouped between 1910 and 1912 in two weeks of municipalities. Despite the fact that he failed, he revealed the need to coordinate the main services, such as public roads, water supply, electricity, sanitation and safety. Among his goals were obvious points of territorial integration, such as the creation of a tram network with unique or joint municipal decrees.
From a more discursive level, the idea of the Great Madrid began to be present in public debate during the dictatorship of Primo -de River and the second republic, in the image and likeness of other large European cities, such as Paris. In any case, this did not come from the debate.
In 1944, an annexation law was published, which will allow consistent municipal transfers to the city of Madrid, which will not be composed independently, but in the context of the post -war Franco – Badagor Plan)
Although during the Second Republic of Debata, the federations of the hereditary hereditary joints of the failed joint municipalities were oriented – although the annexist decision appeared as a solution to the unemployment crisis in border municipalities – Franco put radically centralizing vision, which definitely regulated doubts between coordination and annexation in the second option.
Madrid wanted to be, in terms of what Franco himself represented for himself, the imperial city, the city of movements or an organic city. In this annexist policy of the great Madrid, aggression of the capital of the regime, as well as obsession, because Barcelona does not exceed Madrid. In fact, he already demographically promoted him in the thirties, becoming the first metropolis of one million inhabitants.
Fessive municipalities were thirteen: Aravak, Baraja, Kanillas, Callia, Karabanchel Alto, Karabel Bajo, Chamartin, El Pardo, Fuincarral, Hortaleza, Vallekas, Vikalvaro and Villaverda. The first, first of all, was Chamartin de la Rose, who was already a continuum with Madrid in his part of Tetutan and two Karabanel in 1948.
The year when more and more municipalities joined Madrid, was in 1950, when the residents of Kanilles, Khortaleza, Vikalvaro, Fukarral, Barajas and Vallek arrived. In 1951, the city of El Pardo was annexed – for great political reasons than the city, because it was Franco – and in 1954, the last of all, Villaverda. This plane shows the end of the process.
At first, annexed municipalities became areas, but in 1955 they joined the new administrative department of Madrid in 12 districts, some as independent areas, and others along with others. And, more or less, he continued to be in the consistent territorial reforms of Madrid.
In recent years, the sensitivity to the heritage, which remains in some ancient annexed municipalities embodied in associations such as Bik Barajas or the efforts of associative tissue chortaleses to preserve its historical center. But, in general, the expansion of the municipality of Madrid acted as a wave of oblivion, covering the growth of the city with the material culture of ancient bordering peoples. In some cases, the difference between what was and is easier, as in the case of the ancient peoples of Fuernarrala or de Baraj (which continue to be called in popularity). On other anniversary of the annexations, who became careful carefully, and what remains of the old village of those peoples, imitating Madrid that it could.