Șercaia

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Șercaia
Schirkanyen
Sárkány
Coat of arms of Șercaia
Șercaia (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Brașov
Coordinates : 45 ° 50 '  N , 25 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 49 '49 "  N , 25 ° 8' 15"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 449  m
Area : 92.64  km²
Residents : 2,822 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 30 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 507195
Telephone code : (+40) 02 68
License plate : BV
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Șercaia, Hălmeag , Vad
Mayor : Cristinel Paltin ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 82
loc. Șercaia, jud. Brașov, RO-507195
Website :

Șercaia (outdated Șerpeni or Sărcaia ; German  Schirkanyen , Hungarian Sárkány ) is a municipality in the Brașov district in the Transylvania region in Romania .

The place is also among the German names Schirkengen and Scharken known.

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Șercaia in the Brașov district

The municipality of Șercaia is located in the northern foothills of the Transylvanian Alps south of the Olt (Alt) river in historic Burzenland . The place Șercaia is located on the creek of the same name, on Drum național 1 - here part of European route 68 - and on the Brașov – Făgăraș railway line 14 kilometers east of Făgăraş (Fogarasch) and about 55 kilometers northwest of the district capital Brașov (Kronstadt) .

history

The place formerly inhabited by Transylvanian Saxons was first mentioned in 1235 as Sarcam . Since the Middle Ages, Schirkanyen has bordered four Romanian villages and a Hungarian town and was thus a German-speaking island .

A settlement on the area of ​​the municipality is noted in the incorporated village of Hălmeag (Halmagen) in the Neolithic as well as in the Roman times , in the area called Valea Felmerului (Valea Mâții) by the Romanian Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

population

The population of the municipality of Șercaia developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 3,973 1,697 1,130 965 185
1920 4,266 2,307 1,056 889 14th
1966 3,756 2,394 733 541 88
2002 3,050 2,475 413 27 135
2011 2,822 2,295 291 27 209 (Roma 135)

Since 1850, the highest number of inhabitants in the area of ​​today's municipality was determined in 1920. The highest population of Romanians (2394) was registered in 1966, that of Magyars (1253), that of Romanian Germans in 1850 and that of Roma (195) in 1992. Today mostly Romanians live in Șercaia.

Agriculture and the food industry (especially pig breeding) dominate working life in the village.

Attractions

  • The Protestant church in the community center was built in the second half of the 19th century in place of a previous one. Oriented to the church in a north-south direction, the church tower is about six meters south, to which the rectory is connected. The church, the bell tower built in 1691 and renewed in 1819 and the rectory built in 1839, are listed
  • In the incorporated village of Hălmeag, the towerless Evangelical church built in the 13th century and renovated in the 15th, is a listed building,
  • In the incorporated village of Vad (Waadt) , the narcissus meadow Vad is a nature reserve in the region .

  • Old coat of arms of Schirkanyen

  • Șercaia viewed from the national road

  • Train station in Șercaia

  • Church in Vad

  • Narcissus meadow in Vad

Personalities

  • Alexandru Ciurcu (1854–1922), inventor and author, was born here.

See also

Web links

Commons : Șercaia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ^ Dictionary of localities from Transylvania
  3. ↑ a b c List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian).
  4. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 1, 2008 (PDF; 512 kB; Hungarian).
  5. ^ Picture of the church at sevenbuerger.de , accessed on February 27, 2019
  6. ↑ Information from the Schirkanyen hometown community at sevenbuerger.de , accessed on February 27, 2019
  7. ↑ Information on the Reformed Church in Hălmeag at biserici.org, accessed on February 27, 2019 (Romanian).
  8. ↑ Alexandru Ciurcu from earlyaviators.com accessed on September 6, 2013 (English)