Bucecea

Bucecea
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	West Moldova
Circle :	Botoșani
Coordinates :	47 ° 46 '  N , 26 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 46 '12 "  N , 26 ° 26' 27"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	267  m
Area :	96.58  km²
Residents :	4,274 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	44 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	717045
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 31
License plate :	BT
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	city
Structure :	2 districts / cadastral communities: Bohoghina , Călinești
Mayor :	Andron Țîmpău ( PSD )
Postal address :	Națională street, no. 1 loc. Bucecea, jud. Botoșani, RO-717045
Website :	www.primariabucecea.ro

Bucecea is a city in Botoșani County in Romania .

location

Bucecea is located in a hilly region ( Șaua Moldovei ), on the left bank of the Sereth River . The district capital Botoșani is located about 15 km to the east.

history

The oldest written mention of a place called Vălceşti dates back to 1434. It belonged to the Galata Monastery in Iaşi . 1634 Bucecea is documented. The name may come from a nobleman Buczaschi . Both villages appear in a document from 1751. A few decades later, the residents of Vălceşti gave up their place and moved to nearby Bucecea. The causes could have been a Tartar invasion or a flood of the Sereth. In 1828 Bucecea is mentioned as a market town.

Since this time at the latest, Bucecea has been shaped to a large extent by its Jewish population. In 1851 61% of the then 523 inhabitants were Jews . These worked mainly as cattle breeders, innkeepers and craftsmen. In 1871 Bucecea was connected to the railway network by building the Verești – Botoșani line. In 1894 and in connection with the peasant uprising in Romania in 1907 , pogrom-like riots broke out. In 1937 the Jewish community still owned five synagogues , a school with two teachers, a kindergarten and a mikveh .

After General Ion Antonescu came to power in 1941, the entire Jewish population was forcibly brought to Botoșani. Some of the survivors returned after the end of the Second World War ; however, most Jews emigrated to Israel or the United States by the late 1950s . The youngest tombstone in the Jewish cemetery is from 1975.

Romanians from other parts of the country gradually moved to Bucecea. In 1960 a sugar factory was opened. A reservoir with a capacity of 10 million m³ was created on the Sereth.

Bucecea has been a city since 2004. The most important branches of the economy are agriculture, food processing and trade.

population

In 1930 about 3550 people lived on the territory of today's city, of whom about 2700 were Romanians , the rest were Jews. In the 2002 census, Bucecea had 5128 inhabitants, including 5119 Romanians and 6 Roma . About 4,300 lived in Bucecea itself, the rest in the two incorporated villages.

traffic

Both local and express trains stop at Bucecea station. Currently (2009) around nine passenger trains run in both directions per day. Part of it goes continuously to Bucharest or Suceava .

Attractions

• Church Sf. Nicolae (1787/1865)
• Bălțile Siretului Nature Reserve
• Jewish Cemetery

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
2. ↑ Dan Ghinea: Enciclopedia geografică a României. Volume 1: A - G. Editura Enciclopedică, Bucharest 1996, ISBN 973-450149-6 , p. 219.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Document of the Romanian House of Representatives (PDF; 207 kB) accessed June 22, 2009
4. ↑ ^{a b} Jewishgen.org, accessed June 22, 2009
5. ↑ Andrei Oţetea: Marea Rascoala 'a Ţăranilor din 1907 . Academia Republicii Socialiste România, Institutul de Studii Istorice și Social-Politice de pe lîngă CC al PCR, Institutul de Istorie N. Iorga, Bucharest 1967, p. 172.
6. ↑ Mihail Haşeganu: Economic Geography of the Romanian People's Republic. Verlag Die Wirtschaft et al., Berlin et al. 1962, p. 63.
7. ^ Map of the 1930 census
8. ↑ 2002 census , accessed June 22, 2009.
9. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: receptie.ro ) accessed June 22, 2009