Cămărașu

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Cămărașu
Pusztakamarás
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Cămărașu (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Cluj
Coordinates : 46 ° 48 '  N , 24 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 47 '35 "  N , 24 ° 7' 46"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 360  m
Area : 49  km²
Residents : 2,655 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 54 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 407140
Telephone code : (+40) 02 64
License plate : CJ
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Cămărașu, Năoiu , Sâmboleni
Mayor : Iancu-Marcel Mocean ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 126
loc. Cămărașu, jud. Cluj, RO-407140
Others
City Festival : “Târgul cireșelor” ( cherry market ) on June 24th

Cămărașu [ ˈkəməraʃu ] ( Hungarian: Pusztakamarás ) is a municipality in Cluj County , in Transylvania , Romania .

The place is also known under the Romanian name Cămărașu-Deșert .

Geographical location

Location of the Cămărașu municipality in Cluj County

The municipality of Cămărașu is located in the Transylvanian Basin in the east of the Cluj County. On the upper reaches of the Fizeș - a right tributary of the Someșul Mic - and at Drum național 16 , the community center is located 15 kilometers northwest of the small town of Sărmașu in Mureș County and about 50 kilometers east of the county capital Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) .

history

The place Cămărașu was first mentioned in 1322 and was a serf village of the Hungarian aristocratic Kemény family in the 17th century .

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's community belonged to the chair district Mocs in the County Cluj , then the historic district of Cluj and from 1950 to today's Cluj County at.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 1,983 1,592 251 - 140
1920 2,495 2.124 337 - 34
1966 4.149 3,667 409 1 72
2002 2,782 2.163 199 - 420
2011 2,655 1,854 153 - 648 (Roma 573)

Since 1850 the highest number of inhabitants and that of the Romanians in 1966 have been determined in the area of ​​today's municipality. The highest number of Roma was registered in 2011, that of Magyars (444) in 1956 and that of Romanian Germans (33) in 1890.

The main occupation of the population is livestock and agriculture.

Attractions

  • The reformed church in Cămărașu, built in the 13th century, renovated in 1753 and the manor house of the Hungarian aristocratic Kemény family built in the 18th century, are listed as historical monuments. The coat of arms of the Hungarian noble families Kemény , Wesselényi and Rhédei can be seen in the church.
  • Two mass graves and the memorial of the 126 murdered Jews from the small town of Sărmașu ( Nagysármás in Hungarian ) by Hungarian troops on September 16, 1944, are located on the Suscut mountain, which the locals call, and are under monument protection.

  • Town hall in Cămărașu

  • Reformed Church in Cămărașu

  • Mass grave at Cămărașu

  • Memorial plaque of the murdered Jews

Connected to the place

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Cămărașu at arcanum.hu
  3. ↑ a b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  4. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian)
  5. ↑ Information on the church in Cămărașu at biserici.org (Romanian) accessed on September 6, 2017
  6. ↑ a b List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian)
  7. ^ The Sărmașu massacre - new disclosures on April 7, 2011 from desteptati-va.ro (Romanian) accessed on September 6, 2017
  8. ↑ Nicolae Balint: Collective crime with well-known authors ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. at agero-stuttgart.de (Romanian) accessed on September 6, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.agero-stuttgart.de
  9. ↑ Information on Zsigmond Kemény at mek.oszk.hu accessed on September 7, 2017 (Hungarian)