Bod (Romania)

Bod
Brenndorf
Botfalu

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Brașov

Coordinates :

45 ° 46 ' N , 25 ° 39' E Coordinates: 45 ° 45 '50 " N , 25 ° 38' 30" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

506 m

Area :

33.56 km²

Residents :

3,994 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

119 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

507015

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 68

License plate :

BV

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

local community

Structure :

Bod, Colonia Bod

Mayor :

Sergiu Arsene (independent)

Postal address :

St. Școlii, no. 139
loc. Bod, jud. Brașov, RO-507015

Bod ( German Brenndorf , Hungarian Botfalu ) is a municipality in Transylvania , Romania .

The place is also among the German names Bring village or Brignendorf and the Hungarian Botfalva known.

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Bod in the Brașov district

The municipality of Bod is located in Burzenland in the northeast of the Brașov district . The place is on the district road (drum județean) DJ 103, 15 kilometers north of the district capital Brașov (Kronstadt) , two kilometers from the national road DN 13 . The community is also located on the international, electrified Teiuș – Brașov railway line .

history

Old coat of arms of Brenndorf

Archaeological finds indicate that the area around the village was probably inhabited as early as the Neolithic .

The first documentary mention took place in 1386 after the settlement of the Transylvanian Saxons , who were to shape Brenndorf for centuries.

Due to the geographical location of the place, the community has always been threatened by raids of conquest and looting from the south and east.

During the Second World War there was considerable fighting due to the transmission system.

In 2009 there were still 65 members of the Protestant community (Transylvanian Saxony).

Demographics

The population development of the municipality of Bod:

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1850	1.933	539	-	1,258	136
1920	2,393	920	100	1,369	4th
1956	3,892	2.140	638	1,075	39
1977	5,082	3,297	837	919	29
2002	3,927	3,291	469	64	103
2011	3,994	3,373	322	42	257 (Roma 16)

Since 1850, the highest number of inhabitants in the area of today's municipality was determined in 1977, as well as the Romanians and the Magyars. The highest population of Romanian Germans (1,406) was registered in 1930 and that of Roma (136) in 1850. At almost every recording, one to three people identified themselves as Ukrainians , Serbs or Slovaks .

economy

In the second half of the 19th century, the railway line from Kronstadt to Budapest was built, which also opened up new opportunities for Brenndorf to develop economically.

The sugar factory, founded in 1889, is the most distinctive company in the municipality. The cadastral community "Colonia Bod" also dates back to the time it was founded.

In 1933/34 the Bod long wave transmitter was put into operation.