Atid (Harghita)

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Atid
Etéd
Atid (Harghita) coat of arms
Atid (Harghita) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Harghita
Coordinates : 46 ° 27 '  N , 25 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 27 '5 "  N , 25 ° 2' 48"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 441  m
Area : 136.82  km²
Residents : 2,705 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 20 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 537005
Telephone code : (+40) 02 66
License plate : MR
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Atid, Crişeni , Cuşmed , Inlăceni , Șiclod
Mayor : László Szőcs ( UDMR )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 469
loc. Atid, jud. Harghita, RO-537005
Website :

Atid (outdated Eted ; Hungarian Etéd ) is a municipality in Harghita County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of Atid Parish in Harghita County

The municipality of Atid is located in the Subcarpathian Mountains (Subcarpați) - a foreland of the Eastern Carpathians . In the historical Szeklerland region in the west of the Harghita district, Atid is located at the mouth of the Firtuş brook in the Cuşmed , a left tributary of the Târnava Mică (Little Kokel) . Atid is located on the county road (drum județean) DJ 136A, 23 kilometers east of the small town of Sângeorgiu de Pădure (Sankt Georgen auf der Heide) in the Mureş district and about 80 kilometers west of the district capital Miercurea Ciuc (Szeklerburg) .

history

Atid, mainly inhabited by Szeklern people, was first mentioned in a document in 1566. On the area of ​​the place, called Pârâului Cetății (Hungarian Várpatak ) by the locals , an earth wall has not yet been assigned to an era. However, archaeological finds are assigned to different ages in the entire municipality . Most of them were in the incorporated village of Șiclod (Hungarian Siklód ). To the northeast of the village, a castle is orally mentioned on an Andesite tuff stone .

On the area Várkert of the incorporated village Inlăceni (Hungarian Énlaka ) was the approximately two hectare Roman auxiliary troop camp called Praetoria Augusta .

At the time of the Kingdom of Hungary Atid belonged to the Székelykeresztúr district in the Udvarhely County ( Romanian Comitatul Odorhei ), then to the historical Odorhei district and from 1950 to the present Harghita district.

population

The population of today's Atid municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 5,203 150 4,849 - 204
1941 5,828 - 5,659 3 166
2002 2,837 14th 2,791 - 32
2011 2,705 10 2,283 - 412

The highest number of inhabitants has been recorded in the area of ​​today's Atid since 1850 and that of the Magyars in 1941. The highest number of Romanians was registered in 1850, German speakers (34) in 1880 and Roma (227) in 1977.

Attractions

  • In the community center, the reformed church and the bell tower, built in 1678 and rebuilt in 1797, are listed according to the list of historical monuments of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Ministerul Culturii și Patrimoniului Național) .
  • In the incorporated village of Cuşmed ( Küsmöd in Hungarian ) the reformed church built in the 13th century, rebuilt in the 18th century and the wooden bell tower built in 1747 are listed as a historical monument.
  • The house of the potter Zsigmond Bereczki built in Cuşmed in 1858 is a listed building.
  • In the incorporated village of Inlăceni, the Unitarian church was built in the 15th century, rebuilt in the 19th century and is a listed building. The bell tower was erected in 1688, the circular wall in 1753.
  • In the incorporated village of reformiclod, the wooden bell tower of the Reformed Church, built in 1784, is a listed building.
  • In the area of ​​the incorporated village Inlăceni (Énlaka) , remains of the Roman stone fort Praetoria Augusta can be seen.

Town twinning

The municipality of Aitid and its incorporated villages maintain partnerships with the Dutch towns of Hardenberg and Tricht , and the Hungarian towns of Hollókő , Jászivány , Kazár , Kondoros , Sárszentlőrinc , Zalaapáti , the fifth district of Budapest and Ete in the Kisbér district .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB).
  2. Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  3. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Atid , accessed July 12, 2020 (Romanian).
  4. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Șiclod , accessed July 12, 2020 (Romanian).
  5. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Inlăceni , accessed July 12, 2020 (Romanian).
  6. Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian).
  7. Information on the Reformed Church in Atid at biserici.org, accessed on July 12, 2020 (Romanian).
  8. a b c d e List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture , updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian).
  9. Information on the Reformed Church in Cușmed at biserici.org, accessed on July 12, 2020 (Romanian).
  10. Information on the Reformed Church in Inlăceni at biserici.org, accessed on July 12, 2020 (Romanian).
  11. Information on the Reformed Church in Șiclod at biserici.org, accessed on July 12, 2020 (Romanian).
  12. Information on town twinning on the website of the municipality of Atid, accessed on July 12, 2020 (Romanian).