Bigar
Bigăr fast rest Bigér Bígr |
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Historical region : | Banat | |||
Circle : | Caraș-Severin | |||
Municipality : | Berzasca | |||
Coordinates : | 44 ° 39 ′ N , 22 ° 6 ′ E | |||
Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | |||
Height : | 550 m | |||
Residents : | 257 (2002) | |||
Postal code : | 327026 | |||
Telephone code : | (+40) 02 55 | |||
License plate : | CS | |||
Structure and administration | ||||
Community type : | Village | |||
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Bigăr ( Czech Bígr , German Schnellersruhe , Hungarian Bigér , Serbian - Cyrillic Бигар ) is a village in the Caraș-Severin district , Romania, which is predominantly inhabited by Banat Czechs .
geography
The village is located in the Banat Mountains in southern Romania, approx. 10 km from the Danube , at an altitude of approx. 550 m. It belongs to the municipality of the Romanian- speaking village of Berzasca .
history
Bigăr was founded in 1827 by emigrants from Central Bohemia . Most of the immigrants came from the area of Litoměřice , Plzeň , Klatovy and Chrudim . For military reasons, they were recruited to settle here in order to populate the previously barely inhabited mountains on the strategically important Danube border. The village then belonged to the Berzasca garrison . The German place name is derived from General Andreas von Schneller , who spent one night here during the founding period.
In contrast to other villages of the Banat Czechs such as Ravensca , agriculture was only of minor importance here, as the loamy soils in the area are extremely sterile. The main source of income was coal mining , which still plays an important role today, even if only one mine is still active.
While 610 people still lived in the village in 1934, the population had dropped to 360 by 1991. After the fall of the Ceaușescu regime, the population decline began to increase due to increasing emigration, especially of young people, so that in 2002 only 257 people lived in Bigăr.
map
- Club českých turistů: Turistická Mapa Banát, M 1: 100,000 . Map and guide. 1st edition. Freytag & Berndt, Prague 2001, ISBN 80-85999-88-9 (Czech, Romanian, English).
Web links
- karpatenwilli.com , The Danube between Orsova and Moldova Noua