Avram Iancu (Alba)

Avram Iancu (until 1924 Vidra de Sus , Hungarian Felsővidra , German Upper Vidra ) is a Romanian village in the Alba district in Transylvania .

location

Location of the Avram Iancu municipality in the Alba county

The municipality in the northwest of the Alba district on the Arieșul Mic , a source river of the Arieș , consists of 33 villages and many small hamlets . With a total of around 1800 inhabitants, the municipality covers an area of 9740 hectares. 24 kilometers from Câmpeni and about 100 kilometers northwest of the district capital Alba Iulia, the place is surrounded by forests in the center of the Apuseni Mountains and is a starting point for the Găina Mountains . It is a center of the historical Motzenland .

history

The place Vidra , to which today's Avram Iancu belongs, was first mentioned in 1595. At that time it belonged to the Principality of Transylvania . Later the villages in the valley of the Arieșului Mic were grouped under the name Râul Mic . The entity of today's village was officially recorded for the first time in 1839 under the names Felső-Vidra or Vidra Gyin Szusz . However, Vidra de Sus was not mentioned in a document as early as 1739 as part of a donation. For a long time, the residents of Avram Iancu mainly dealt with agriculture (especially cattle breeding) and mining. In 1824 the folk hero of the Transylvanian-Romanian revolution of 1848 Avram Iancu was born here. In an Austrian publication from 1863 Felső-Vidra is presented as the most handsome village in the entire region. After the First World War , the place came from Austria-Hungary to Romania. He initially kept the official Romanian name Vidra de Sus . On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Avram Iancu, the community was renamed in honor of the folk hero and received its current name.

population

The population developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	1.953	1.953	-	-	-
1900	3.112	3,089	3	-	20th
1930	3,880	3,872	3	-	5
1966	4,020	3,931	1	1	87
2002	1,865	1,772	1	2	90

Attractions

“Casa Iancului”, an old wooden house with a shingle roof , built at the beginning of the 19th century by Avram Iancu's father, Alisandri Iancu, was converted into a museum in 1924 and listed as a historical monument.
The bust of Avram Iancus, erected in the center of the village next to the school in 1968, is a listed building.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
↑ City festivals in the web presentation of the municipality
^ Eduard Albert Bielz: Landbuch der Landeskunde Transylvania. A physical-statistical-topographical description of this country. Filtsch, Sibiu 1857.
↑ ^a ^b History of the village in the website of the municipality (Romanian)
↑ Austrian Review. Verlag Gerold 1863. p. 304
↑ Census, last updated October 30, 2008, p. 42 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.2 MB)
↑ Pictures and information on "Casa Iancului" (Romanian)
↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)

[1] 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)

[2] Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)

[3] City festivals in the web presentation of the municipality

[4] Eduard Albert Bielz: Landbuch der Landeskunde Transylvania. A physical-statistical-topographical description of this country. Filtsch, Sibiu 1857.

[HP-Gem-5] History of the village in the website of the municipality (Romanian)

[6] Austrian Review. Verlag Gerold 1863. p. 304

[7] Census, last updated October 30, 2008, p. 42 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.2 MB)

[8] Pictures and information on "Casa Iancului" (Romanian)

[9] List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)