Bretea Română

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Bretea Română
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village Oláhbrettye
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Bretea Română (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Hunedoara
Coordinates : 45 ° 40 '  N , 23 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 39 '35 "  N , 23 ° 0' 52"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 281  m
Area : 100.36  km²
Residents : 3,052 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 30 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 337115
Telephone code : (+40) 02 54
License plate : HD
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Bretea Română, Bățălar , Bercu , Bretea Streiului , Covragiu , Gânțaga , Măceu , Ocolișu Mare , Plopi , Ruși , Vâlcele , Vâlcele Bune , Vâlceluța
Mayor : Gruia Răzvan Ciprian Ionescu ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 15
loc. Bretea Română, jud. Hunedoara, RO-337115
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Bretea Română [ ˈbretea romɨnɘ ] (outdated Bretea Românească ; German  Brettendorf , Hungarian Oláhbrettye ) is a municipality in the district of Hunedoara in Transylvania , Romania .

The place Bretea Română is also known under the German name Wallachisch-Brettendorf and the Hungarian Brettye , Beregtő and Románbrettye .

Geographical location

Location of Bretea Română in Hunedoara County

The municipality of Bretea Română is located with the eleven villages and two hamlets in the south of Transylvania on the right side of the river Strei ( Strell ), north of the historical region Hatzeger Land ( Țara Hațegului ). The place is on the county road ( drum județean ) DJ 668, about one kilometer from the European route 79 . About halfway (about 10 km) between the small towns of Călan and Hațeg , the place is about 20 kilometers southeast of the city of Hunedoara ( iron market ); the district capital Deva is located about 38 kilometers northwest of Bretea Română.

The closest train station to Bretea Română is located in the incorporated village of Bretea Streiului ( Hungarian-Brettendorf ) on the electrified and double- track Simeria – Petroșani railway line .

The incorporated villages are about 1.5–9 kilometers away from the town hall and can be reached partly on unpaved roads.

history

The place Bretea Română was first mentioned in 1332 as a Hungarian village in the function of a customs office. According to reports by G. Téglás and M. Roska about a find on the area of ​​the incorporated village of Bretea Streiului, the history of settlement in the region goes back to the Neolithic . Other finds from Roman times were made in Bretea Română.

From 15.-16. In the 18th century, the place was owned by the Bethlen family . From 17th to 19th In the 16th century, Bretea Română was a Romanian farming settlement; Hungarian noblemen who had their own church also lived here. In the Horea uprising of 1784 , several Hungarian aristocratic families ( Kendeffi , Csongradi , Nalaczi ) and the local Reformed church were damaged.

The community has about 1000 farms with about 1200 apartments, of which only 57 farms - in the incorporated village of Plopi (Hungarian Sztrigyplop ) - are connected to a sewer system.

The main occupations of the population are agriculture , livestock and wood processing .

population

In 1850, 5543 inhabitants lived in the area of ​​today's municipality. 5201 of them were Romanians , 242 Roma , 79 Hungarians and 21 Germans . In 1910 the largest population was determined with 5,995 - and at the same time that of Romanians (5690), that of Hungarians (268) and that of Slovaks (4). The highest number of Roma was registered in 1850 and that of Germans (35) in 1941. In addition, in 1890 one and 1900 two residents referred to themselves as Slovaks. At the 2002 census, 3133 people lived in the municipality, of which 3099 were Romanians, 17 Hungarians, ten Germans, six Roma and one Greek . In 2011, 2968 identified themselves as Romanians, 15 as Magyars, eleven identified themselves as Roma, five as Germans and 53 gave no information about their ethnic origin.

Attractions

  • The Orthodox Church in Bretea Română, built around the middle of the 18th century, was originally a Reformed church , was taken over by the Romanian population in 1978 and consecrated Orthodox in 1981.

Web links

Commons : Bretea Română  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
  2. ^ Dictionary of the localities in Transylvania
  3. ↑ a b c Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
  4. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Bretea Streiului, accessed on May 22, 2011 (Romanian)
  5. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Bretea Română, accessed on May 22, 2011 (Romanian)
  6. ↑ Information in the web presentation of the municipality, accessed on May 22, 2011 ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2013 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. (Romanian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bretea-romana.ro
  7. ↑ Census, last updated November 4, 2008, p. 63 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.1 MB)
  8. ↑ 2002 census