Cisnădie
Cisnădie Heltau Nagydisznód |
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Romania | |||
Historical region : | Transylvania | |||
Circle : | Sibiu | |||
Coordinates : | 45 ° 43 ' N , 24 ° 10' E | |||
Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | |||
Height : | 454 m | |||
Area : | 277.13 km² | |||
Residents : | 14,282 (October 20, 2011) | |||
Population density : | 52 inhabitants per km² | |||
Postal code : | 555300 | |||
Telephone code : | (+40) 02 69 | |||
License plate : | SB | |||
Structure and administration (as of 2016) | ||||
Community type : | city | |||
Structure : | 1 District / cadastral municipality: Cisnădioara | |||
Mayor : | Gheorghe Huja ( PNL ) | |||
Postal address : | Piața Revoluției, no. 1 loc. Cisnădie, jud. Sibiu, RO-555300 |
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Cisnădie ( German Heltau , Transylvanian-Saxon De Hielt , Hungarian Nagydisznód ) is a town in the Sibiu district in Transylvania ( Romania ).
geography
Heltau is located about 8 km southwest of Sibiu at the foot of the Southern Carpathians. Two brooks flow through the city, the Pârâul Argintului ( Silberbach ) and the Pârâul Ursului ( Bärenbach ).
history
Heltau was first mentioned in a document in 1204, founded by Germans ( Transylvanian Saxons ) and for centuries inhabited by the majority of Transylvanian Saxons. In 1425 Heltau received the first tower clock in Transylvania. In 1500, on the occasion of a visit by King Wladislaus II , the city received market rights .
The period from the 15th to the 17th century was marked by countless Turkish invasions , but also Wallachian raids, which caused great devastation. In 1660 there were 411 deaths during a plague epidemic .
The family of Klaus Johannis , the incumbent President of Romania , has been mentioned in a document in Heltau since the 16th century.
population
1734 125 settled about Landler in Heltau. In 1941, Heltau had 5,385 inhabitants, 3,691 of them German. The highest number of inhabitants of Cisnădie itself (18,830) and also that of the Romanian Germans (4,886) was reached in 1977, that of Hungarians (295) in 1956 and that of Roma (132) in 1930. In 1946 the village received city rights. As early as the 1950s, the Transylvanian Saxons began to be resettled in the Federal Republic of Germany , in the form of the reunification of families whose husbands had been sent to Germany after the Second World War or as a result of the deportation to Russia . This trend continued in the years that followed and reached its peak after the December 1989 revolution .
Economy and Social
The Heltau textile industry was famous , in 1944 there were 176 larger and smaller textile companies with a total of 36,850 spindles and 503 looms. In the 1990s the textile industry fell into a serious crisis, which led to an increase in unemployment in Cisnădie.
Attractions
- Fortified church , early 13th century
- Textile Industry Museum
Personalities
- Johann Bergleiter (1774–1843), Protestant bishop in Transylvania
- Caspar Helth (around 1520–1574), Protestant theologian, writer, publisher and reformer
- Oskar Paulini (1904–1980), writer
- Gustav Gündisch (1907–1996), historian and archivist
- Karin Gündisch (* 1948), writer
- Birgit Kelle (* 1975), publicist
- Roberto Dietrich (* 1984), politician
Religions
In addition to a very active Protestant church , Heltau has two Orthodox , two Greek Catholic churches and several houses of prayer belonging to Protestant free churches .
Twin cities
Cisnădie has partnerships with:
- Château-Thierry in France , since 1997
- Wernigerode in Saxony-Anhalt , since 2002
- Hola Prystan in Ukraine , since 2006
Web links
- Heltau at Siebenbürger.de / Places
- Web presentation of the Protestant Church in Heltau
- Erich Wanek: Heltau , Siebenbürgische Zeitung on November 15, 1996, accessed on August 25, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
- ↑ Census, last updated November 4, 2008 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.1 MB)
- ↑ deutsche-biographie.de Johann Bergleiter