Șepreuș

Șepreuș Besendorf Seprős
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Screeching area
Circle :	Arad
Coordinates :	46 ° 34 '  N , 21 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 34 '16 "  N , 21 ° 44' 3"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Area :	58.04  km²
Residents :	2,481 (2011)
Population density :	43 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	317320
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 57
License plate :	AR
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Mayor :	Pintean Ioan ( PNL )
Postal address :	Piaţa Rebeliunii No. 1 loc. Șepreuș, jud. Arad, RO-317320
Website :	sepreus.ro

Șepreuș on the Josephine land survey

Șepreuș (German: Besendorf , Hungarian: Seprős ) is a municipality in the Arad district , in the Kreischgebiet , in western Romania .

Geographical location

Șepreuș is located in the Teuztal , in the Kreisch plane between the Black Kreisch in the north and the White Kreisch in the south.

Neighboring places

Mișca	Arpăşel	Apateu
Adea		Șomoșcheș
Sintea Mare	Șicula	Cermei

history

The first written mention comes from the year 1364.

In the course of the centuries, different spellings of the place name appeared: 1364 Sepreus , 1413 Seprews , 1425 Sewpreus , 1479 Seprews , 1644 Sepeosi , Sepeosre , 1715 Seprős , 1808 Seprős , 1839 Seprős , 1851 Seprős , 1858, 1863, 1877 Seprős , 1882 Seprős , Seprős , 1893 Seprős , 1909 Şepreuş , Seprős , 1913 Seprős , 1921 Şepreuş , Seprős , 1932, 1956 Şepreuş .

After the Peace of Karlowitz (1699), Arad and the Maroscher Land came under Austrian rule , while the Banat south of the Marosch remained under Turkish rule until the Peace of Passarowitz (1718) . On the Josephine land survey is Seprös entered. As a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867), the Arad region, like the whole of Banat and Transylvania, was annexed to the Kingdom of Hungary within the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy . The official place name was Seprős . The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 resulted in border regulation, whereby Șepreuș fell to the Kingdom of Romania .

1820 auctioned the Armenian noble family Czaran from Habsburg Aerar the estate and built in the second half of the 19th century castles in the neoclassical style, three of which are still preserved. The culture house was built on the site of the fourth.

Population development

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1880	3864	3357	359	17th	131
1910	4690	4074	479	51	86
1930	4046	3730	116	22nd	178
1977	3042	2779	11	12	240
1992	2759	2471	9	7th	211
2002	2472	2214	21st	5	232

Personalities

• Marius Sturza (1876–1954), Transylvanian doctor and head of the balneological chair in Cluj-Napoca .
• Seprősi jr. Alois Paikert (1866–1948), agronomist, lawyer and museum director in Budapest .

Web links

• ghidulprimariilor.ro , Șepreuș citizens' office
• e-primarii.ro , Șepreuș
• glsa.ro , 65 years since the anti-communist revolt in Șepreuş

Individual evidence

1. ↑ citypopulation.de , census October 20, 2011
2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
3. ↑ exonyme.kilu.de ( Memento from July 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Exonyms
4. ↑ arcanum.hu , history of Transylvanian villages
5. ↑ virtualarad.net , Șepreuș on VirtualArad
6. ↑ kia.hu , E. Varga: Statistics of the population by ethnic group in the Arad district according to censuses from 1880 - 2002