Șeica Mare

Șeica Mare Market Schelken Nagyselyk
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Transylvania
Circle :	Sibiu
Coordinates :	46 ° 1 '  N , 24 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 1 '22 "  N , 24 ° 9' 17"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	337  m
Area :	120.24  km²
Residents :	4,470 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	37 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	557245
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 69
License plate :	SB
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Șeica Mare, Boarta , Buia , Mighindoala , Petiș , Ștenea
Mayor :	Nicolae Șușa ( PNL )
Postal address :	SOS. Sibiului, no. 415 loc. Șeica Mare, jud. Sibiu, RO-557245
Website :	www.seicamare.ro

Șeica Mare ( German  Marktschelken , Hungarian Nagyselyk ) is a village in Transylvania ( Romania ).

location

The place is in the Sibiu district on the national road ( drum național ) DN 14, which leads from Sibiu to Mediaş ( Mediasch ), thirty kilometers north of the district capital Sibiu.

history

Marktschelken is a settlement founded by the Transylvanian Saxons in the Middle Ages . Around 1300 the - today Protestant - church was built. The place was first mentioned in 1309 and was the seat of the Schelker chair (later two chairs based in Mediasch ).

According to 1992 census lived in Mark sealed cloves 4,297 Romanians , 431 Hungarians , 181 Roma and 147 Romania German . In 2011, 3744 Romanians, 250 Magyars, 172 Roma and 41 Romanian Germans were registered, the rest of them gave no information about their ethnicity.

Local politics

Mandate distribution
Mandates in the local council: (elections 2012)	PD-L (6), USL (3), PP-DD (2) PER (1), UDMR (1)

The local council of the municipality of gehöreneica Mare has 13 members. Mayor is Nicolae Șușa from the PDL .

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  Town hall in Șeica Mare

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  Church in Șeica Mare

Attractions

• Church, built around 1300

Personalities

• Cornel Oțelea (* 1940), former handball player, coach and sports official

See also

• List of German and Hungarian names of Romanian places

literature

• Arne Franke: The defensive Sachsenland. Fortified churches in southern Transylvania. With a historical introduction by Harald Roth. German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe , Potsdam 2007, ISBN 978-3-936168-27-3 , online .
• Harald Roth (Hrsg.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Transylvania (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 330). Kröner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-520-33001-6 .

Web links

Commons : Șeica Mare  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Șeica Mare at ghidulprimariilor.ro
• Marktschelken at sevenbuerger.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
2. ↑ Mandates in Romania, 2012 ( Memento of the original dated February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 8.7 MB)