Cetatea de Balta

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Cetatea de Baltă
Kokelburg
Küküllővár
Cetatea de Baltă does not have a coat of arms
Cetatea de Baltă (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Alba
Coordinates : 46 ° 15 '  N , 24 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 14 '52 "  N , 24 ° 10' 6"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 280  m
Area : 64.91  km²
Residents : 2,930 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 45 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : RO-517235
Telephone code : (+40) 02 58
License plate : FROM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Cetatea de Baltă, Crăciunelu de Sus , Sântămărie , Tătârlaua
Mayor : Constantin Comandaru ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. Cetății, no. 32
loc. Cetatea de Baltă, jud. Alba, RO-517235
Website :
Others
City Festival : First Sunday in October, Fiii satului ("The Sons of the Village")

Cetatea de Baltă ( German  Kokelburg , Hungarian Küküllővár ) is a Romanian municipality in the Alba district in Transylvania .

The community is also known by the German names Kukelburg, Kuchelburg and Kümelburg .

Geographical location

Location of the Cetatea de Baltă municipality in the Alba district

Cetatea de Baltă is located in the east of the Alba district, in the west of the Transylvanian Basin . Located in a wide left side valley of the Târnava Mică ( Little Kokel ), on the district road ( Drum județean ) DJ 107 ( Blaj - Târnăveni , Mureș County ), it is 18 kilometers to the next larger town of Târnăveni; the district capital Alba Iulia is located about 60 kilometers southwest of Cetatea de Baltă. With its three incorporated towns, the municipality extends over an area of ​​6491 hectares.

history

Cetatea de Baltă was first mentioned in 1177 under the name "villa Cuculiensis castri" in papal lists. Later names of the place were Küküllővár , Castrum Kukuleu and Castelanus de Kukulex . The fortress there was the administrative seat of the Kokelburg county in the Grand Duchy of Transylvania , which was divided into the Groß-Kokelburg and Klein-Kokelburg counties in 1876 . The fortress and county were ceded to the Moldovan prince Ștefan cel Mare ( Stefan the Great ) in 1467 after a lost battle by the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus . Since then, various princes of Moldova - Bogdan III. cel Orb (son of Stefan the Great ), Alexandru Lăpușneanu , Ștefan VI. Rareș and others - owners of the fortress. In 1565 the fortress was demolished by the Csáky family - owners of the serf villages in the area - to build a new castle. Over time, the appearance of the castle was changed several times by its owners. The name of the palace, Bethlen-Haller, built in the 17th century, arose from the marriage of the Bethlen and Haller families .

population

The population developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year Total population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 3,102 2.161 423 204 314
1900 3,684 2,559 719 227 179
1941 4,450 3,156 814 358 122
2002 3,217 1,725 625 31 836
2011 2,930 1,347 491 13 1,079

In 2002 there were people living in the village of Cetatea de Baltă itself in 2005. About half of them were Romanians (1075), 3 Germans, 454 Magyars and 473 Roma . 282 people lived in the three incorporated villages. The highest number of Germans (358) on the territory of today's municipality was registered in 1941, almost all (354) in the incorporated village of Tătârlaua ( Taterloch ). In 2011, 912 people, among others, apart from those listed in the table with ethnic composition, identified themselves as Roma.

Attractions

  • The Kokelburg Fortress no longer exists; there is now an empty space in its place.
  • The Evangelical Lutheran Church , a former Catholic church, where Romanesque and Gothic art can still be seen. With the two towers built in 1060, it withstood the invasion of the Mongols in 1241. A larger picture of a Tatar head is still preserved in the church. The castle around the church (a wooden castle reinforced with earth walls) was destroyed during the Mongol storm of 1241. The church is a listed building.
  • The Bethlen-Haller Schloss , which was damaged in the Second World War in 1944 and then served as a storage room and offices. In the 1970s, Jidvei ( silk ) wines were housed in the castle's cellars . The castle and the property belonging to it are under monument protection.
  • The Romanian Greek Catholic Holy Trinity Church , inaugurated on December 27, 2009.

  • Josephine land survey from 1767 to 1773

  • The Bethlen-Haller Castle

  • Parish and castle

  • The Orthodox Church in Cetatea de Baltă

  • The Evangelical Church

Web links

Commons : Cetatea de Baltă, Alba  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
  3. ^ Dictionary of the localities in Transylvania
  4. ↑ Interviu cu ing. Mihil CUCUI, primarul comunei Cetatea de Balta dat pentru ziarul Unirea in data de 2007-02-14
  5. ↑ Census, last updated October 30, 2008, p. 72 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.2 MB)
  6. ↑ Image of the area of ​​the Cetatea de Baltă castle
  7. ↑ a b Pictorial and archaeological evidence of the town of Cetatea de Baltă (Romanian)
  8. ↑ a b List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.1 MB)
  9. ↑ Inauguration of the church ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2010 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. (Romanian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.greco-catolica.org