Cajvana

Cajvana Keschwana Кажване / Kashwane
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Bucovina
Circle :	Suceava
Coordinates :	47 ° 42 '  N , 25 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '4 "  N , 25 ° 57' 55"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	408  m
Area :	24.83  km²
Residents :	6,901 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	278 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	727100
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 30
License plate :	SV
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	city
Structure :	1 District / cadastral municipality: Codru
Mayor :	Gheorghe Tomăscu ( PSD )
Postal address :	Str. Orasului Cajvana, no. 462 loc. Cajvana, jud. Suceava, RO-727100
Website :	cajvana.ro

The centuries-old oak in Cajvana

Cajvana ( German  Keschwana , Ukrainian Кажване Kashwane ) is a small town in the Suceava district in the Romanian region of Bukovina .

location

Cajvana is located on the creek of the same name on a plateau directly on the eastern edge of the Obcina Mare , a mountain range of the Eastern Carpathians . On the county road (drum județean) DJ 178D, Cajvana is about 25 kilometers west of the county capital Suceava .

history

Cajvana was first mentioned in a document in 1575. It was first owned by Moldovan noble families, from 1615 to 1785 by the monastery in Solca . Since 1775 the place belonged to Austria-Hungary . However, it remained almost exclusively inhabited by Romanians . There is evidence of a witch trial dating from 1797 in which several women in the village were accused of being responsible for a prolonged drought. After the end of the First World War , Cajvana came to Romania. In 2004 the place was declared a city.

The most important branches of industry are agriculture, trade, craft and small industry.

population

In 1930 some dozen of the 3200 inhabitants of today's city were German , the rest of the Romanians. At the 2002 census there were 7,263 people in Cajvana, including 7,231 Romanians and 31 Roma . 7128 lived in the actual city, 135 in the incorporated town of Codru . In 2011, 6901 people were registered in the city, of whom 6755 were Romanians, 50 Roma and the rest did not provide any information about their ethnicity.

traffic

Cajvana has no rail connection. The nearest train station is in the incorporated village of Soloneț in the municipality of Todireşti on the Dărmăneşti – Câmpulung Moldovenesc railway . There are bus connections to Gura Humorului and Rădăuți .

Attractions

• An approximately 900 year old oak ( ⊙ ) on a hill in the center of Cajvana, about 120 meters from the Cajvana brook , has a diameter of 3.22 to 3.78 meters at a height of one meter, thus a circumference of 10, 99 meters. In 1970 it was struck by lightning, so that part of the crown was damaged and the traces of fire can still be seen along the central branch. Since the county road is only ten meters away from the oak, one of the tree roots was cut during a road renovation in 1985. Due to the fact that heavy traffic was not restricted, a significant deterioration in the condition of the oak was found in 2010 (as of 2010). The multisecular oak has been a listed building since 1942.

Personalities

• Hugo Weczerka (* 1930), German historian, editor and non-fiction and specialist book author

Web links

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

• Web presentation of Cajvanas at www.gscajvana.home.ro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
2. ↑ Web presentation of the Solca monastery at crestinortodox.ro
3. ^ Journal of the Society for Folklore , Berlin 1893
4. ↑ 2002 census, accessed February 13, 2009
5. ↑ The Oak on Street View
6. ↑ Information and pictures about the oak in Cajvana at România-natura23 accessed on July 16, 2016 (Romanian)