Albeşti (Mureş)
Albeşti Weißkirch Fehéregyháza |
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Romania | |||
Historical region : | Transylvania | |||
Circle : | Mureș | |||
Coordinates : | 46 ° 14 ' N , 24 ° 51' E | |||
Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | |||
Height : | 364 m | |||
Area : | 82.70 km² | |||
Residents : | 5,345 (October 20, 2011) | |||
Population density : | 65 inhabitants per km² | |||
Postal code : | 547025 | |||
Telephone code : | (+40) 02 65 | |||
License plate : | MS | |||
Structure and administration (as of 2016) | ||||
Community type : | local community | |||
Structure : | Albești, Bârlibășoaia , Boiu , Jacu , Șapartoc , Țopa , Valea Albeștiului , Valea Dăii , Valea Șapartocului | |||
Mayor : | Nicolae Șovrea ( PSD ) | |||
Postal address : | Str. Lunga nr. 123 loc. Albeşti, jud. Mureș, RO-547025 |
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Others | ||||
City Festival : | Last Sunday in July: In memory of Sándor Petőfi |
Albeşti [ alˈbeʃtʲ ] (outdated Ferihaz or Firighaz ; German Weißkirch , Hungarian Fehéregyháza ) is a municipality in the Mureş district , in the Transylvania region in Romania .
The place Albeşti is also known under the Hungarian names Fejéregyháza , Magyar-Fehéregyháza and Fejéregyháza .
Geographical location
The municipality of Albeşti is located in the Kokel Valley (Podişul Târnavelor) in the Transylvanian Basin . At the Târnava Mare (Big Kokel) , the National Road DN13 - this part of the European route E60 - and the railway Teiuş-Braşov is the place Albeşti four kilometers east of the city Sighisoara (Sighisoara) and about 55 kilometers south of the regional capital Targu Mures ( Neumarkt am Mieresch) away.
history
The place Albeşti, founded by Transylvanian Saxons , was first mentioned in 1231. From the 16th to the end of the 19th century the place was inhabited by Romanians, Magyars and Roma . In 1899 and 1900, Transylvanian-Saxon families from the Zwischenkokel area were resettled in Albeşti. Its fortified church has meanwhile been used by the Hungarian Reformed parish, so that the Transylvanian Saxons built a new church in 1905.
Archaeological finds in the area of the incorporated village Jacu (Wallachian Sacken) point to the Hallstatt period and are in the museum in Sighișoara (Schäßburg) , and some of them are not yet assigned to an era.
During the revolution of 1848, a battle between the Hungarian revolutionary army and the Habsburgs took place in the municipality , in which Sándor Petőfi fell under Józef Bem .
In the Kingdom of Hungary , places of today's municipality belonged partly to the Segesvár district in Groß-Kokelburg county and some to the Erzsébetváros district in the Klein-Kokelburg county , then to the historical Târnava-Mare district and, from 1950, to the present-day Mureș district.
The incorporated village of Bârlibășoaia (Hungarian Barlabástanya ) is one of the currently 130 uninhabited villages in Romania, six of them in the Mureș district (as of 2018).
population
The population of the municipality of Albeşti developed as follows:
census | Ethnic composition | ||||
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year | population | Romanians | Hungary | German | other |
1850 | 3,144 | 2,264 | 634 | - | 246 |
1920 | 4,996 | 3,523 | 1,253 | 210 | 10 |
1966 | 5,995 | 3,953 | 1,396 | 365 | 281 |
1992 | 5,494 | 3,560 | 1,305 | 21st | 608 |
2002 | 5,466 | 3,558 | 1,174 | 11 | 723 |
2011 | 5,345 | 3,306 | 1,077 | 17th | 945 |
Since 1850 the highest number of inhabitants (6,505), that of the Magyars (1.551) and that of the Roma (723) in 1977 were registered in the area of today's municipality. The highest number of Romanians and Romanian Germans was recorded in 1966.
Attractions
- In the community center, the reformed church built in the 15th century and renovated in the 18th, and the Sándor Petőfi monument, erected in 1949, are listed.
- A building built by the Hungarian aristocratic Haller family in the community center in 1813 was converted into a Protestant church in 1905/6.
- In the incorporated village of Boiu (Groß-Freudendorf) , the house in Str. Principală No. 198, built in the 19th century, is a listed building.
- In the incorporated village of Țopa (Klein-Freudendorf) the ruins of the former Bethlen Castle, built in the 17th century, are under monument protection.
Web links
- Weißkirch near Schäßburg at sevenbuerger.de
- The municipality of Albeşti at ghidulprimariilor.ro
- Web presentation of the Weißkircher Heimatortsgemeinschaft (HOG)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
- ↑ Arcanum Kézikönyvtár: Historical-administrative book of place names of Transylvania, Banat and Partium. Retrieved March 13, 2019 (Hungarian).
- ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
- ↑ Institute Of Archeology - Jacu , accessed on March 23, 2019 (Romanian).
- ↑ INEDIT. Șase localități mureșene sunt nelocuite, există doar pe hârtie! ardealnews.ro, December 27, 2018, accessed July 23, 2019 (Romanian).
- ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian).
- ↑ Information on the Reformed Church in Albeşti at biserici.org, accessed on March 24, 2019 (Romanian).
- ↑ a b c List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian).
- ↑ Information on the Evangelical Church in Albeşti at biserici.org, accessed on March 24, 2019 (Romanian).
- ↑ Letiția Cosnean Nistor: The Bethlen Castle in Boiu-Țopa , accessed on March 24, 2019 (English).
- ↑ Information and images about the Bethlen Castle in Țopa at art-historia.blogspot.com , accessed on March 24, 2019 (Romanian).