Carei

Carei
Groß-Karol
Nagykároly

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Sathmar

Circle :

Satu Mare

Coordinates :

47 ° 41 ' N , 22 ° 28' E Coordinates: 47 ° 41 '24 " N , 22 ° 28' 12" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

130 m

Area :

102 km²

Residents :

21,112 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

207 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

445100

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 61

License plate :

SM

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

Municipality

Structure :

1 District / cadastral municipality: Ianculești

Mayor :

Eugen Kovács ( UDMR )

Postal address :

Str. 1 Decembrie 1918, no. 17
loc. Carei, jud. Satu Mare, RO-445100

Website :

www.primariacarei.ro

Carei (red square) - Romania - Neighboring towns: Satu Mare , Zalău , Cluj-Napoca , Oradea , Debrecen ( Hungary )

Carei (outdated Careii Mari ; German Groß-Karol , Großkarol , Hungarian Nagykároly ) is a city in northwestern Romania with the rank of a municipality .

Location of the village

The city is located in the Satu Mare district , about one hundred kilometers from Oradea ( Greater Oradea ) and is not far from the Hungarian border.

history

Carei was first mentioned in a document in 1335. After the Treaty of Trianon , it became part of Greater Romania in 1920 . During the Second World War , the city was again part of Hungary , since the end of the war it has belonged again to Romania, where it was assigned to the Satu Mare district in 1968.

The Hasidic theologian Joel Teitelbaum (1897–1979), founder of the devout sect Satmar , worked as a rabbi in the city in the second half of the 1920s .

population

The 2011 census gave the following result: 10950 Hungary , 8077 Romanians , 479 Romania German , 462 Roma , 17 Ukrainians and members of other ethnic groups.

Attractions

In Carei there is a castle from the 13th century (reconstruction in the neo-Gothic style of the 19th century) with a park of 120,000 m² worth seeing with an extensive arboretum. The castle houses a museum with exhibitions on the town's history, local archeology (including finds from Tell Bobald and Cauas), the history of the Karoly family and a collection of stuffed wild animals.

Every year in the last week of July there is a city festival, which includes a medieval market.

Carei Castle

Sports

In Carei there are two football clubs (Victoria Carei and FC Kaizer Carei) and a junior football club - the CSS Carei. In Carei there are four recreational soccer fields (some with concrete floor) and two club fields that belong to Victoria and FC Kaizer Carei.

sons and daughters of the town

Gáspár Károlyi (around 1529–1592), Protestant theologian and Bible translator
Margit Kaffka (1880–1918), Hungarian writer and feminist
Susanne Barth (* 1944), German actress
Adrian Sălăgeanu (* 1983), Romanian football player
Eric Bicfalvi (* 1988), Romanian football player

Twin cities

Hungary Orosháza (1991)
Hungary Nyírbátor (2000)
Hungary Mátészalka .

literature

Nagykároly , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 513

Web links

Commons : Carei - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Private website with information and pictures about Carei (Romanian)
Nagykárolyi Napló - website (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)

[1] 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de

[VZ2011-2] 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)