Aluniș (Mureș)

Aluniș Haseldorf Magyaró
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Transylvania
Circle :	Mureș
Coordinates :	46 ° 53 '  N , 24 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 53 '29 "  N , 24 ° 48' 54"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	425  m
Area :	40.53  km²
Residents :	3,972 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	98 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	547035
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 65
License plate :	MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Aluniș, Fițcău , Lunca Mureșului
Mayor :	József Loránt Kristóf ( UDMR )
Postal address :	Str. Principală, no. 656 loc. Aluniș, jud. Mureș, RO-547035
Website :	www.primaria-alunis.ro
Others
City Festival :	last weekend in June, community festival

Aluniș [ aluˈniʃ ] (outdated Maieru ; German  Haseldorf , Hungarian Magyaró ) is a municipality in the Mureș district , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

The place Aluniș is also known under the outdated names Măierău , Maierău , and Muierău , and the German Monja .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Aluniș in Mureș County

The municipality of Aluniș is located in the Miereschtal in the northern part of the Transylvanian Basin west of the Gurghiu Mountains (Munții Gurghiu) . On the upper reaches of the Mureş (Mieresch) , the district road (Drum județean) DJ 154A and the railway line Târgu Mureş – Deda – Gheorgheni , the place is 18 kilometers northeast of the city of Reghin (Saxon Rain) and about 50 kilometers northeast of the district capital Târgu Mureş (Neumarkt am Mieresch) away. The two incorporated villages are four and three kilometers away from the community center.

history

The place Aluniș was first mentioned in a document (according to different information) in 1220 or 1228.

Archaeological finds on Mount Dealul Cetății (Hungarian Várbérc ) indicate that the region was settled in Roman times . Some of the finds in the area of ​​the village were assigned to the Neolithic Age .

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged to the Régen Felső (Ober-Regen) district in Maros-Torda County , then to the historical Mureș District and, from 1950, today's Mureș District.

The salt water springs on the area of ​​the incorporated village of Lunca Mureșului (German Holten ; Hungarian Holtmaros ) have been neglected, so that the former salt bath of the place has been abandoned and only a smaller spring has been preserved.

population

The population of the municipality of Aluniș developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	1.917	435	1,230	16	236
1930	3,688	755	2,757	2	156
1977	4.147	886	3.143	4th	114
2002	3,300	524	2,383	-	393
2011	3,236	422	2,177	-	637

Since 1850 the highest number of inhabitants and also that of the Romanians and Magyars in 1977 were registered in the area of ​​today's municipality. The highest number of Roma (589) was determined in 2011 and that of Romanian Germans (16) in 1850.

The main occupation of the population is agriculture and wood processing.

Attractions

• In the community center, the reformed church built in the 14th century was recently renovated in 1975 and the orthodox church Sfinții Arhangheli Mihail și Gavriil built in 1824, stands in the place of a burned down wooden church .
• In the incorporated village of Lunca Mureșului, the reformed church built in 1876.

Personalities

• Ödön Tömösváry (1852-1884) was a zoologist
• Attila Palkó (1922–2012), was a historian, archaeologist and ethnographic writer.
• Ferenc Vajda (* 1936), poet and editor

Web links

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

• Aluniș at ghidulprimariilor.ro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
2. ↑ Arcanum Kézikönyvtár: Historical-administrative book of place names of Transylvania, Banat and Partium. Retrieved September 2, 2018 (Hungarian). 
3. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
4. ↑ ^{a b} Information on the website of the municipality of Aluniș accessed on September 2, 2018 (Romanian)
5. ↑ Institute Of Archeology - Aluniș accessed on September 2, 2018 (Romanian)
6. ^ The salty area in the Mureș valley, up from Reghin. ( PDF ; 589 kB) (No longer available online.) June 2, 2006, archived from the original on August 7, 2016 ; Retrieved September 2, 2018 (Romanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian)
8. ↑ Information on the Reformed Church in Aluniș at biserici.org, accessed on September 2, 2018 (Romanian)
9. ↑ Information on the Orthodox Church in Aluniș at biserici.org, accessed on September 2, 2018 (Romanian)
10. ↑ Information on the Reformed Church in Lunca Mureșului at biserici.org, accessed on September 2, 2018 (Romanian)
11. ↑ Herman Ottó: Tömösváry Odon. Rovartani Lapok, 1885, accessed September 2, 2018 (Hungarian). 
12. ↑ Dávid Gyula: Palkó Attila. Romániai magyar irodalmi lexikon, accessed September 2, 2018 (Hungarian). 
13. ^ Dávid Gyula: Ferenc Vajda. Romániai magyar irodalmi lexikon, accessed September 2, 2018 (Hungarian).