Brădeşti (Harghita)

Brădeşti
Máréfalva

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Harghita

Coordinates :

46 ° 20 ' N , 25 ° 21' E Coordinates: 46 ° 20 '11 " N , 25 ° 20' 33" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

541 m

Area :

31.22 km²

Residents :

1,915 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

61 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

537025

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 66

License plate :

MR

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

local community

Structure :

Brădeşti, Târnovița

Mayor :

Botond Bokor ( UDMR )

Postal address :

Str. Principală, no. 89
loc. Brădeşti, jud. Harghita, RO-537025

Bradesti [ brədeʃtʲ ] (deprecated Fenied , Fened or Brad ; Hungarian Fenyéd ) is a commune in Harghita County , in the region of Transylvania in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the Brădeşti municipality in Harghita County

The municipality of Brădeşti is located in the western foothills of the Harghita Mountains - a part of the Eastern Carpathian Mountains - in the historical region of Szeklerland in the southern half of the Harghita district. At the mouth of the Brădeşti brook , into the Târnava Mare (Great Kokel) and the national road DN13A , the place Brădeşti is five kilometers northeast of the town of Odorheiu Secuiesc (Oderhellen) and about 50 kilometers west of the district capital Miercurea Ciuc (Szeklerburg) .

The nearest train station is in Odorheiu Secuiesc on the Sighișoara – Odorheiu Secuiesc railway line .

history

The place Brădeşti, mostly inhabited by Szeklern people, was first mentioned in a document in 1333. There are no archaeological finds on the territory of the current parish.

At the time of the Kingdom of Hungary Brădeşti belonged to the Udvarhely district in the Udvarhely County ( Romanian Comitatul Odorhei ), then to the historical Odorhei district and from 1950 to the present Harghita district. Until 2004, today's neighboring municipality of Satu Mare was part of the municipality of Brădeşti.

Beautifully carved wooden gates can be seen in both villages of the municipality.

population

The population of today's Brădeşti municipality developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	804	1	803	-	1
1930	1,423	3	1,412	6th	2
1992	1,603	10	1,593	-	-
2011	1.915	20th	1,871	-	24

The highest number of inhabitants has been recorded in the area of today's municipality since 1850 and that of the Magyars and Romanians in 2011. The highest number of Roma (6) was registered in 1941 and that of Romanian Germans in 1930.

Attractions

In unincorporated village Tarnovita (Küküllőkeményfalva) the Catholic Church in 1802 built.

Web links

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

The municipality of Brădeşti at ghidulprimariilor.ro

Individual evidence

↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB).
↑ ^a ^b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
↑ Lay pentru înființarea unor comune. (PDF; 250 kB) Accessed July 20, 2020 (English).
↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian).
↑ Information on the Catholic Church in Târnovița at biserici.org, accessed on July 20, 2020 (Romanian).

[VZ2011-1] 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB).

[HHGS-2] Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .

[3] Lay pentru înființarea unor comune. (PDF; 250 kB) Accessed July 20, 2020 (English).

[4] Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian).

[5] Information on the Catholic Church in Târnovița at biserici.org, accessed on July 20, 2020 (Romanian).