Bruiu

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Bruiu
Braller
Brulya
Bruiu does not have a coat of arms
Bruiu (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Sibiu
Coordinates : 45 ° 52 '  N , 24 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 52 '26 "  N , 24 ° 41' 58"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 442  m
Area : 119.31  km²
Residents : 703 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 6 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 557065
Telephone code : (+40) 02 69
License plate : SB
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Bruiu, Gherdeal , Șomartin
Mayor : Grigore Gherghel ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 19
loc. Bruiu, jud. Sibiu, RO-557065
Website :

Bruiu ( German  Braller , Hungarian Brulya ) is a municipality in Sibiu County , in Transylvania , Romania .

Geographical location

Location of Bruiu in Sibiu County

The municipality of Bruiu is located in the south of the Transylvanian Basin . In the Altland , east of the Harbachtal , the community is located in the historic Großschenker Stuhl . At the confluence of the Veseud in the Pârâul Nou , the place Bruiu is in the east of the Sibiu district on the county road ( drum județean ) DJ 105A about 28 kilometers (12.5 km as the crow flies) south of the small town of Agnita ( Agnethlen ). The district capital Sibiu ( Hermannstadt ) is located about 60 kilometers west of Bruiu.

history

The place Bruiu was first mentioned in a document in 1307. On the area of ​​Bruiu - called Kammebach by the locals - archaeological finds that point to the Neolithic age were made. According to K. Horedt , urn graves from Roman times were found on the site of the village . On the area of ​​the incorporated village of Gherdeal ( Gürteln ) an archaeological find that points to the Bronze Age was made.

The farmer from Brall , Anna Schuff , was the last witch to be washed up in the Schenker chair in 1744 (hand and foot cuffed and thrown into a pond) and then burned.

After the creation of Greater Kokelburg County in the Kingdom of Hungary in the second half of the 19th century, Braller belonged to the Szentágota (today Agnita) district. When Făgăraș County ( Județul Făgăraș ) was abolished in 1950 , Bruiu was assigned to what is now Sibiu County.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 2,746 693 1 1,786 266
1900 2,586 1,026 7th 1,541 12
1941 2,828 881 36 1,559 352
1966 2,190 1,083 25th 1,078 4th
1977 1,746 615 28 858 245
2002 795 680 12 30th 73
2011 703 594 8th 17th 84 (Roma 65)

Since 1850, the highest number of inhabitants in the area of ​​today's municipality was reached in 1941. The highest number of Romanian Germans was registered in 1850, that of Romanians (1307) in 1956, that of Magyars (36) in 1941/1956 and that of Roma (274) in 1930. Furthermore, six confessed themselves to be Serbs in 1930 and one each in 1966, 1977, 2002 and three as Ukrainians in 1966 .

Attractions

  • The evangelical church in Bruiu was built in the 13th century and renovated in the 19th century. The altar is a late Gothic double-winged shrine altar from 1520, on which Mary is depicted with the baby Jesus. The circular walls with four defense towers were built in the 15th century; the fortified church is a listed building.
  • The fortified church in Gherdeal ( Gürteln ) built at the beginning of the 16th century is a listed building.
  • The thick oak in the “fairytale forest” in Gherdeal ( Gürteln ).
  • The fortified church in Șomartin ( Martinsberg ) built in the 13th century, renovated in 1795, is a listed building.

  • Fortified church in Bruiu

  • Orthodox Church in Bruiu

  • Church in Gherdeal

  • Fortified church in Șomartin

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Bernhard Ohsam (1926–2001), Romanian-German journalist, writer and radio editor

literature

  • Josef Bajus: Braller: this book tells of a village in Kampestwinkel in Transylvania between grain fields, pastures, forests and meadows, its inhabitants and his Madonna, a perfect beauty , publishing house of the Transylvanian-Saxon Foundation, Munich 1998. ISBN 3-932043-07 -3

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
  2. ↑ a b c Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
  3. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Bruiu, accessed December 14, 2014 (Romanian)
  4. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Gherdeal, accessed December 14, 2014 (Romanian)
  5. ↑ Census, last updated November 4, 2008 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.1 MB)
  6. ↑ a b c List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (Romanian; PDF; 7.10 MB)
  7. ↑ picture of the oak at sevenbuerger.de
  8. ↑ Franz Heinz: Obituary for Bernhard Ohsam at sevenbuerger.de on November 23, 2001, accessed on February 9, 2015