Bucerdea Grânoasă

Bucerdea Grânoasă Botschard / Bothard Búzásbocsárd
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Transylvania
Circle :	Alba
Coordinates :	46 ° 12 '  N , 23 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 11 '33 "  N , 23 ° 50' 24"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	296  m
Area :	41.30  km²
Residents :	2,235 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	54 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	RO-517261
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 58
License plate :	FROM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Bucerdea Grânoasă, Cornu , Pădure , Pânca
Mayor :	Ioan Aldea ( PNL )
Postal address :	St. Ioan Maiorescu, no. 82 loc. Bucerdea Grânoasă, jud. Alba, RO-517261
Website :	www.bucerdea-granoasa.ro
Others
City Festival :	October 12, Village Day

Bucerdea Grânoasă ( German  Botschard or Bothard , Hungarian Búzásbocsárd ) is a Romanian municipality in the Alba district in Transylvania .

location

Bucerdea Grânoasă in the Josephinische Landesaufnahme from 1767–1773

Bucerdea Grânoasa is located in the southwest of the Transylvanian Basin , 3 kilometers north of the river Târnava (Kokel) and the Drum național 14B , about 10 kilometers west of the city of Blaj (bubble village) and about 30 kilometers northeast of the district capital Alba Iulia .

history

The town of Bucerdea Grânoasa was first mentioned in 1303. The village got its Romanian name from its grain production. grâne = grain. In the Middle Ages the village was mostly inhabited by Hungarians , later by Romanians . The population lived mainly from agriculture.

Bucerdea Grânoasă became an independent municipality with the villages of Cornu , Pădure and Pânca on April 27, 2006 when Crăciunelu de Jos broke away .

population

The population developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	Total population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	1,506	976	395	2	133
1910	1,828	2,569	15th	3	-
1966	2,542	1,776	765	1	-
2002	2,300	1,705	595	-	-

The highest number of Germans (8) was registered in Bucerdea Grânoasă in 1880.

Attractions

• The Reformed Church , built in the 16th century, rebuilt in the 18th century and a clapboard tower added in 1868 , is a listed building.

Born in Bucerdea Grânoasă

• Ioan Maiorescu (1811–1864), Romanian linguist

Web links and sources

• Bucerdea Grânoasă at ghidulprimariilor.ro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Website of the local school, accessed December 22, 2009 (Romanian)
4. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft-Verlag, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
5. ↑ Website of the community, accessed on December 22, 2009 ( Memento of the original of February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Census, last updated October 30, 2008, p. 79 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.2 MB)
7. ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)
8. ↑ Information on Ioan Maiorescu