Sant Joan de Mollet

Sant Joan de Mollet is a village in the province of Girona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.[1]

History

The first written information of the people is in the Middle Ages, in the year 844. At that time, St. John Mollet was under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Girona. The first figure is the population of the fourteenth century with 29 fires, 150 inhabitants. Two centuries later, in the sixteenth century, the population grew but decreased significantly by disease and poor harvests. In the sixteenth century was the royal jurisdiction.

The eighteenth century was the open ditch Vinyals, thanks to a royal privilege granted to the family of Vinyals Flaçà in 1788, which granted the right to use water for irrigation of the Ter land Bordils, Celrà , Juià, FLAC and St. John Mollet, although until 1932 does not grant the right of referral to the canal plan and Flaçà Mollet. Chief St. John in 1920 had increased its urban planning, has 96 buildings and 88 of its citizens could read and write, as the village school were neighboring Flaçà.

The cruel episode of the Civil War mean to Sant Joan de Mollet renaming, passing its name to Mollet de Ter. The Franco regime would, among other things, the famous political repression and ration books, beginning a period of scarcity which would last until late 1950. It must be said that St. John Mollet was one of the few people who has no neighbor Girona affiliated with the Spanish Falange in the first decade of the Franco regime.

From that moment is when a timid economic growth based on agriculture.

The twentieth century has witnessed improvements that have made home life more comfortable and easy, the quality of life of people Mollet has improved dramatically thanks to services such as telephone, electricity or running water.

In recent years these early seventies and eighties of the twentieth century it began to s'endegaren asphalt streets and other works of improvement of services such as municipal cemetery.

At the entrance of the twenty-first century, the main economic resource of the people of the land remains Mollet.

References

  1. ^ "Spanish Census". Spanish Community Census. https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Spain_Census. Retrieved 4 September 2011.