Albac

Albac
Albak

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Alba

Coordinates :

46 ° 27 ' N , 22 ° 58' E Coordinates: 46 ° 26 '54 " N , 22 ° 57' 50" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

620 m

Area :

53.89 km²

Residents :

2,089 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

39 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

RO-517005

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 58

License plate :

FROM

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

local community

Structure :

Albac, Bărăşti , Budăieşti , Cioneşti , Costeşti , Dealu Lămăşoi , Deve , După Pleşe , Fața , Pleşeşti , Potionci , Rogoz , Roşeşti , Ruseşti , Sohodol , Tamboreşti

Mayor :

Petru-Tiberiu Todea ( PNL )

Postal address :

Cloșca street, no. 9
loc. Albac, jud. Alba, RO-517005

Website :

primaria-albac.ro

Albac ( Hungarian Fehérvölgy or Albák ) is a municipality in the Alba County in Transylvania , Romania .

location

Location of the municipality of Albac in the Alba district

In the Apuseni Mountains at the mouth of the Arada River in the Arieșul Mare , a source river of the Arieș , and at Drum național 75 , the place is 96 kilometers from the district capital Alba Iulia and 19 kilometers from Câmpeni . The municipality consists of 16 villages with a total of about 2000 inhabitants and covers an area of 5389 hectares.

history

According to a report by G. Téglás from 1889, ancient traces of gold panning have been found on site. The place was documented for the first time under the name Râul Mare in 1733 as a municipality with several villages. In a description from 1782, two large towns with seven or four churches and 153 landlords are named here. As the population grew, Albac developed into an independent municipality.

The wooden church Sf. Pantelimon , built in 1746 in Albac by Vasile Ursu Nicola (also called Horea ), was dismantled in 1907 and rebuilt in the spa town of Băile Olăneşti ( Kr. Vâlcea ).

Today the inhabitants live mainly from agriculture, cattle breeding, fruit growing and working in the quarry.

population

In 1850, 3547 inhabitants lived in the area of today's village. 3540 were Romanians and seven were Roma . In 1900 the largest population was registered with 5,805. At the 2002 census there were 2220 people in Albac, including 2182 Romanians, one Hungarian and 37 Roma.

Attractions

The Romanian Orthodox Church , built 1880–1884. The tower collapsed in 1884; it was rebuilt in 1891–1892 and restored to its original shape in 1943.
The village museum
The bust of Horea (1731–1785), leader of the peasant uprising in 1784 , in the center of the community, was erected in 1967 and is a listed building.