Apold

This article describes the village in Romania. For the Austrian metallurgical engineer, see Anton Apold .

Apold Trappold
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Transylvania
Circle :	Mureș
Coordinates :	46 ° 8 '  N , 24 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 7 '40 "  N , 24 ° 49' 5"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	430  m
Area :	125.41  km²
Residents :	2,892 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	23 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	547040
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 65
License plate :	MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Apold, Daia , Șaeș , Vulcan
Mayor :	Ioan Toth ( PSD )
Postal address :	Str. Principală, no. 134 loc. Apold, jud. Mureș, RO-547040
Website :	www.comunaapold.ro

Apold also Apoldu din Sighișoara ( German  Trappold , Hungarian Apold ) is a municipality in the Mureș district in Transylvania , Romania .

The place should not be confused with Apoldu de Sus (Großpold) or Apoldu de Jos (Kleinpold) west of Hermannstadt .

Geographical location

Apold is a village 15 km southeast of Sighișoara (Schäßburg) and the seat of the municipality of the same name with the villages of Daia (Denndorf) , Șaeș (Schaas) and Vulcan (cloud village) .

There is an impressive fortified church in the center of the village of Apold . From 1898 to 1965 Apold had its own station on the narrow-gauge railway from Sighișoara to Agnita (Agnetheln) , the so-called Wusch .

Fortified church in Apold

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Personalities

• Michael Albert (1836-1893), folk poet
• Andrei Moldovan (1885–1963, Detroit ), Romanian Orthodox Bishop (1950–1963)

See also

• List of German and Hungarian names of Romanian places
• Fortified Churches Foundation Specialized institution for the long-term preservation of the ecclesiastical cultural heritage of the Evangelical Church AB in Romania

literature

• Arne Franke: The defensive Sachsenland. Fortified churches in southern Transylvania. With a historical introduction by Harald Roth. German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe, Potsdam 2007, ISBN 978-3-936168-27-3 .

Web links

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

• Web presentation of the hometown community of Trappold
• Trappold at sevenbuerger.de
• Trappold at kirchenburgen.org
• Apold at ghidulprimariilor.ro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
2. ↑ Michael Albert at Wikisource
3. ↑ Information on Andrei Moldovan from crestinortodox.ro accessed on March 14, 2014 (Romanian)