Borșa (Cluj)

Borșa
Kolozsborsa

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Cluj

Coordinates :

46 ° 56 ' N , 23 ° 40' E Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '5 " N , 23 ° 39' 48" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

328 m

Area :

62.4 km²

Residents :

1,600 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

26 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

407110

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 64

License plate :

CJ

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

local community

Structure :

Borșa, Borșa-Cătun , Borșa-Crestaia , Ciumăfaia , Giula

Mayor :

Mariana Secară ( PNL )

Postal address :

Str. Principală, no. 262
loc. Borșa, jud. Cluj, RO-407110

Website :

www.primariaborsa.ro

Borșa ( Hungarian Kolozsborsa ) is a municipality in Cluj County , in Transylvania , Romania .

Geographical location

Location of Borșa municipality in Cluj County

The municipality of Borșa is located approximately in the northern half of the Transylvanian Basin on both sides of the river of the same name, a left tributary of the Someșul Mic (Little Somesch) . The incorporated villages are about three to five kilometers from the community center. The place Borșa is located on the county road (drum județean) DJ 109 about 30 kilometers southwest of Gherla (Neuschloss) and about 35 kilometers north of the district capital Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) .

history

The place Borșa was first mentioned in 1317 and belonged to the Hungarian noble Haller family.

Several archaeological finds on the area of the incorporated village of Ciumăfaia (ung. Csomafája ) indicate, according to information from E. Orozs, I. Marțian, M. Roska u. a. to a settlement in Roman times (called Dealului Dombor (Hungarian Domborhegy )) to the Neolithic (near Răzărişte (Hungarian Bórsód )). Bronze parts from the Hallstatt period were also found in the incorporated village of Giula (ung. Kolozsgyula ) .

After about 1337 the place belonged to the Hungarian noble family Bánffy , who also built a manor house here, which the family owned until after the Second World War .

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's community belonged to the chair district Kolozsvár in County Cluj , then the historic district of Cluj and from 1950 to today's Cluj County at.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	2,781	2,177	480	1	123
1941	4,713	3,851	745	1	116
1992	2.119	1,868	207	2	42
2002	1,865	1,650	164	1	50
2011	1,600	1,376	135	-	89 (45 Roma)

Since 1850, the highest number of inhabitants in the area of today's municipality was determined in 1941. The highest population of the Romanians (3961) was registered in 1956, the Magyars in 1941, the Roma (85) in 1941 and that of the Romanian Germans (16) in 1900. Furthermore, individual residents were registered as Ukrainians , Serbs or Slovaks .

Attractions

In the community center, the Bánffy manor , built in the 19th century, is a listed building. Today there is a psychiatric hospital in the property.
In the incorporated village of Ciumăfaia the reformed church , according to various sources, built in the 13th century with a Gothic choir and the pulpit by Dávid Sipos in 1745 or renovated in the 16th and 19th centuries, is a listed building.