Șofronea

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Șofronea
Schofronia
Sofronya
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Șofronea (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Screeching area
Circle : Arad
Coordinates : 46 ° 17 '  N , 21 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 16 '42 "  N , 21 ° 18' 56"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Area : 34.90  km²
Residents : 2,575 (2011)
Population density : 74 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 317350
Telephone code : (+40) 02 57
License plate : AR
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Șofronea and Sânpaul
Mayor : Ioan Băbău ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. Principală No. 187
loc. Șofronea, jud. Arad, RO-317350
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Șofronea (German: Schofronia , Hungarian: Sofronya ) is a municipality in the Arad district , in the Kreischgebiet , in western Romania . The village of Sânpaul also belongs to the municipality of Șofronea .

Geographical location

Șofronea is located in the Arad Plain, 15 km from the district capital Arad .

Neighboring places

Dorobanți Curtici Sântana
Variașu Mic Neighboring communities Zimandu Nou
Sânpaul Arad Zimandcuz

history

The first written mention of Ortofronea comes from the year 1437.

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) . 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 .

Fort Purgly was built in 1789, according to some historians, although it first appeared in historical documents in 1889. The baron János Purgly designed the castle in its current form. After his death, his son László Purgly inherited the castle and then his daughter Magdolna Purgly, who married Miklos Horthy from Arad in 1901 .

The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 resulted in the regulation of borders , whereby Șofronea fell to the Kingdom of Romania .

After the communists came to power , László Purgly was deported to the Târgu Jiu labor camp in 1949 . In 1951 he was released and returned to Arad. The fort became the seat of the agricultural production cooperative . After 1989 Daniel Negrea acquired the property. He renovated the fort and opened a thermal bath . The medicinal springs on the grounds of the fort are particularly suitable for rheumatism . The fort is now part of the country's national cultural heritage.

Population development

census Ethnicity
year Residents Romanians Hungary German Other
1880 341 39 289 12 1
1910 1,565 317 1,224 17th 7th
1930 1,922 549 1,354 8th 11
1977 2,787 1,490 1,258 16 23
1992 2,551 1,476 1,055 12 8th
2002 2,566 1,642 900 12 12

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ citypopulation.de , census October 20, 2011
  2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
  3. ↑ a b aradcityguide.ro , The Purgly Fort from Șofronea
  4. ↑ kia.hu , E. Varga: Statistics of the population by ethnic group in the Arad district according to censuses from 1880 - 2002