Los montes del Real Patrimonio y la desamortización (1811-1879)

Authors

  • Ignacio Pérez-Soba Díez del Corral

Keywords:

disamortization, Crown’s heritage, forester engineers, public woodlands

Abstract

The Spanish Monarchy owned many woodlands of great environmental value, and for them are proposed in the nineteenth century two incompatible destinations: liberalism advocated since 1811 overall sales to private landlords in successive Disamortizations; and from 1842 the Crown seeks its sustainable management, which resulted in the creation in the Ministry of Development, in 1854, of the Forester Engineers Corps, that opposed the sale of public woodlands that possessed relevant environmental values. The paper studies the interaction of these two thoughts in the context of the legal clarifi cation of the Crown’s Heritage, and offers a detailed analysis of the more complex case: the woodlands of Valsaín (Segovia), whose sale caused a serious confl ict between the Ministries of Development and Finance, in 1870-1877.

Issue

Section

STUDIES