Cluj-Mărăşti

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Apartment block at Piața Mărăşti
Saint Peters Church

Mărăşti [ mərəʃtʲ ], formerly Szentpéter and Hóstát , is a district in the northeast of Cluj-Napoca ( Ger . Klausenburg , Hungarian Kolozsvár ), Romania , and one of the city's large socialist prefabricated housing estates.

history

The current quarter extends over the area of ​​the villages that were located in front of the eastern gate of Cluj-Napoca in the Middle Ages . The most important of these was Petersdorf (ung. Szentpéter ), whose Catholic parish church, which was occupied in 1416, still exists today.

The whole area was called Hóstát since the 19th century , probably a derivation from the German Hochstadt or Hofstadt . The inhabitants were known as "Hóstáti" (Hungarian) or "Hoştezeni" (Roman) because of the sale of their agricultural products on the Cluj-Napoca market.

Most of the former Hóstát with its many gardens was demolished in the course of the construction of the prefabricated building district by 1985. The demolition was part of the program to systematize the villages . Mainly workers from the nearby industrial plants moved into the newly built, multi-storey, gray apartment blocks.

As part of the national communist ideology, the district was renamed after the 1917 battle of Mărăşti between the Romanian and Austro-Hungarian armies .

Infrastructure

The busy national road DN1C runs through Mărăşti . The district is well connected to the trolleybus and omnibus network of Cluj and has its own town hall. The international airport is nearby and the Iulius Mall opened in 2007 . At the Universitar campus is u. a. the Faculty of Economics at Babes Bolyai University . National and international trade fairs take place on the site of Expo Transylvania . In and around Piața Mărăşti there is a large market square, numerous shops and the Octavian Goga library .

St. Peter's Church is preserved from the historical buildings , in front of which there is a Baroque portal and a Marian column from the 18th century. Right next to her is the glass, 50 m high office building of the Romanian Development Bank (FRG) from 1997.

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ György Gaal: Magyarok utcája. A kolozsvári egykori Bel- és Külmagyar utcák telkei, házai, lakói . Kolozsvár 1995. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
  5. ↑ Amelia Candea, Elena Corina Husar: Piata Marasti. Simbol vechi si nou. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (PDF; 253 kB) Cluj-Napoca 2008. Retrieved September 24, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / socasis.ubbcluj.ro
  6. ↑ structurae.de - International gallery and database of civil engineering. Retrieved September 24, 2010.