Certeju de Sus

Certeju de Sus Felsőcsertés
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Transylvania
Circle :	Hunedoara
Coordinates :	45 ° 58 '  N , 22 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 58 '26 "  N , 22 ° 58' 13"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	285  m
Area :	89.65  km²
Residents :	3,126 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	35 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	337190
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 54
License plate :	HD
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Certeju de Sus, Bocșa Mare , Bocșa Mică , Hondol , Măgura-Toplița , Nojag , Săcărâmb , Toplița Mureșului , Vărmaga
Mayor :	Petru-Adrian Cîmpian ( PNL )
Postal address :	Str. Principală, no. 236 loc. Certeju de Sus, jud. Hunedoara, RO-337190
Website :	www.certejudesus.ro
Others
City Festival :	At the beginning of August, community festival

Certeju de Sus (outdated Cierteș ; Hungarian Felsőcsertés ) is a municipality in the Hunedoara district in Transylvania , Romania .

The place is also known by the Hungarian names Csertés and Csertésköz .

Geographical location

Location of Certeju de Sus in Hunedoara County

The municipality of Certeju de Sus is located in the southern foothills of the Transylvanian Ore Mountains ( Munții Metaliferi ) west of the Transylvanian Basin ( Podișul Transilvaniei ). Located on the upper reaches of the Certej - a right tributary of the Mureș - and the county road ( drum județean ) DJ 761, the place is about 14 kilometers northeast of the district capital Deva ( Diemrich ). The Romanian A1 should (when finished) run about nine kilometers (as the crow flies) south of Certeju de Sus.

history

Certeju de Sus was first mentioned in a document in 1727. However, the history of settlement in the region goes back much further. In the area of ​​the place finds of a settlement have been made, which (according to different statements) point to the Neolithic Age ( M. Roska ) or the Early Bronze Age ( H. Schroller ).

In the area of ​​the incorporated village of Săcărâmb (Groß-Astdorf) , a gold mine , a silver , an arsenic and an antimonium mine are noted at the beginning of the 19th century .

After the villagers of Voia of the Balşa municipality opposed the construction of the processing plant of the gold mining company Deva Gold (2008), the mayor and the villagers of Certeju de Sus approved the construction of the processing plant.

There are several silver and gold mines in the municipality. The Canadian company Eldorado Gold, which owns 80% of the shares in Deva Gold (as of 2012), wants to invest 270 million US dollars in Certej and, starting in 2015, will produce an average of four tons of gold and 20.5 tons of silver per year. After the investor demanded that 56 hectares of forest should be cleared, environmentalists managed to stop the project in 2019.

In 1971, 89 people died when the Certej dam broke .

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	7,066	5,109	223	1512	222
1900	5,782	4,850	520	354	58
1941	4,802	4,510	64	195	33
1992	3,902	3,808	52	15th	27
2011	3.126	2,990	18th	5	113

Since the official survey of 1850, the highest number of inhabitants - and at the same time that of the Romanians, the Transylvanian Saxons (1276 in Săcărâmb [ Groß-Astdorf ]) and the Roma (219) - was determined in 1850 in the area of ​​today's municipality . The highest population of the Magyars was registered in 1900. Furthermore, Slovaks (highest population 50 in 1910), Serbs (one each in 1910 and 1992; two in 1966), and in 1956 a Ukrainian was registered. In 2002, 3456 people were registered in the municipality of Certeju de Sus. 3,396 of them were Romanians, 34 were Magyars, 15 were Roma, ten Romanian Germans and one claimed to be a Croat . At the 2011 census, 3,126 people were counted in 1,598 households in the parish.

The main occupation of the population is forestry and mining.

Attractions

• In the area of ​​the municipality there are no noteworthy sights to be mentioned.

Web links

Commons : Certeju de Sus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Certeju de Sus at ghidulprimariilor.ro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
2. ^ Dictionary of the localities in Transylvania
3. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
4. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Certeju de Sus, accessed February 25, 2013 (Romanian)
5. ↑ Österreichische National-Enchkolpädie des Österreichische Kaiserthumes , Vienna, 1835, p. 428.
6. ↑ Ovidiu Petrovai: Deva Gold moves the cyanide to Certeju de Sus , near Hunedoreanul on July 1, 2008 ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2010 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. accessed on February 25, 2013 (Romanian)  
7. ↑ The mayor of Certej is not afraid of the use of cyanide in the gold mining of Deva Gold , on September 5, 2012 from MineritModern.ro accessed on February 26, 2013 (Romanian)
8. ↑ Eldorado continues to grow , April 12, 2012 ( Memento of April 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English; PDF; 55.6 kB)
9. ↑ Stirileprotv.ro: Proiectul minier din Certeju de Sus, oprit. Problema cu care se confruntă acum localnicii. stirileprotv.ro, September 28, 2019, accessed on August 15, 2020 (Romanian). 
10. ↑ Census, last updated November 2, 2008, p. 83 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.1 MB)
11. ↑ Certeju de Sus at the 2002 census, at www.edrc.ro
12. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)