A well used during the Modern Age consisting of a curbstone with pillars and a wooden cylinder where a rope was placed that was wound up by the action of the crank, raising a bucket of water. This well, located in the municipality of Barrax (Albacete), is completed with two iron hoops, a crank for the rotation of the handle and a wooden lid.
Due to occasional droughts in the form of rainfall, the wells were of great importance in the common supply of villages and hamlets. The underground streams of water, clean and drinkable due to the purifying action of seepage into the ground, helped the villagers to maintain subsistence gardens in times of crisis.

Collection: Images

Project: 11. Science and culture as representation in Europe., 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity.

Chronology: XVI, XVII, XVIII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: http://iealbacetenses.dipualba.es/viewer.vm?id=0000040164

Resource type: Image

Format: Photography

Source: Hernández López, C. (2007). Calles y casas en el Campo de Montiel. Hogares y espacio doméstico en las tierras de El Bonillo en el siglo XVIII. Albacete: Instituto de Estudios Albacetenses, p. 489.

Language: Spanish

Date: 2006-2007

Owner: Pablo Ballesta Fernández (Modernalia)

Copyright: © Carmen Hernández López © Instituto de Estudios Albacetenses “Don Juan Manuel”

Abstract: Folk architecture. Photograph of an open-air well with a complex construction system based on rotation to obtain water.

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