Borsec

Borsec Bad Borseck Borszék
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Transylvania
Circle :	Harghita
Coordinates :	46 ° 58 '  N , 25 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 58 '15 "  N , 25 ° 33' 27"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	850  m
Area :	96.00  km²
Residents :	2,585 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	27 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	535300
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 66
License plate :	MR
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	city
Mayor :	József Mik ( UDMR )
Postal address :	Carpați Street, no. 6 / A loc. Borsec, jud. Harghita, RO-535300
Website :	www.primaria-borsec.ro
Others
City Festival :	August

Borsec ( German  Bad Borseck , Hungarian Borszék ) is a small town and a health resort in the Harghita district in Romania .

Geographical location

Borsec is located in the Szeklerland , in eastern Transylvania in the Giurgeu Mountains , part of the Eastern Carpathians . The district capital Miercurea Ciuc is about 70 km south.

history

The mineral waters in the region of today's city were probably known as early as the late Middle Ages. In the 18th century, the region lay on the territory of the military border , which was supposed to protect the south-eastern flank of the Austrian Empire from the Ottoman Empire . Between 1762 and 1764 the first buildings for treating the sick were built. The first scientific treatises on the composition of Borsecker mineral waters were written as early as the 1770s. In 1804 the court war engineer Johann Valentin Günther received a concession to sell the water. In 1819/1820 a road was built into the village. Since 1822 the mineral water was brought to Vienna, which increased the popularity of the place.

Wooden church in Borsec

In the second half of the 19th century the spa business was expanded further. At the world exhibition in Vienna in 1873 , the water received an award with the title “Queen of Mineral Waters”.

Until 1918 the place belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary , the Principality of Transylvania and Austria-Hungary . After the First World War he came to Romania, from 1940 to 1944 temporarily back to Hungary as a result of the Second Vienna Arbitration . In 1956 Borsec was declared a city.

After the Second World War, there was a further expansion of the tourist infrastructure. However, the country's economic difficulties led to a partial decline of the health resort.

The most important branches of the economy are still tourism and mineral water production.

population

In 1850, 320 people lived in the area of ​​today's city, including 144 Hungarians , 104 Germans and Jews and 67 Romanians . By 1880 the number of residents had risen to 1,116. At the 2002 census, Borsec had 2,864 inhabitants, including 2,240 Hungarians, 607 Romanians and 14 Roma .

traffic

Borsec has no rail connection. A narrow-gauge railway leading to Toplița is closed today. There are regular bus connections to Miercurea Ciuc and Bucharest .

Attractions

• Spa facilities
• Wooden church (1847)
• scenic surroundings

Web links

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

• Borsec at ghidulprimariilor.ro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
2. ^ Anton Kurz: Borszék, Transylvania’s most famous spa town. Verlag Johann Gött, Kronstadt 1844, digitized .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Anne Kotzan: Romania. Baedeker, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-8297-1172-2 , p. 248.
4. ↑ hartaharghita.ro, accessed on July 25, 2009 ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ 2002 census, accessed on July 25, 2009 (PDF; 691 kB)