Crăieşti

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Crăiești
prince
village Mezőkirályfalva
Crăieşti coat of arms
Crăiești (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Mureș
Coordinates : 46 ° 45 '  N , 24 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 45 '19 "  N , 24 ° 25' 15"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 348  m
Area : 23.49  km²
Residents : 924 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 39 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 547180
Telephone code : (+40) 02 65
License plate : MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Crăiești, Lefaia , Milășel , Nima Milășelului
Mayor : Vasile Vereș ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 122 / a
loc. Crăieşti, jud. Mureș, RO-547180
Website :

Crăiești [ ˈkrəieʃtʲ ] (outdated Craifalău de Câmpie ; German  Fürstendorf , Hungarian Mezőkirályfalva ) is a municipality in the Mureș County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

The place is also known under the Hungarian name Királyfalva .

Geographical location

Location of the Crăiești municipality in the Mureș County

The municipality of Crăieşti is located in the Transylvanian Basin in the west of the Mureş district. On the upper reaches of the Lechința a right tributary of the Mureș (Mieresch) and the Drum național 16 , the place Crăiești is located about 35 kilometers north of the district capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) .

The Mocănița Transilvaniei narrow-gauge railway runs between Teaca in the Bistrița-Năsăud district and the neighboring municipality of Râciu to the south . After a long period of shutdown, the train will run again for the first time in spring 2017 on the approximately 35-kilometer route.

history

The place Crăieşti was first mentioned in 1549. In the Kingdom of Hungary the place belonged to the chair district Mezőörményes in the team shank Cluj on; the villages that are incorporated today belonged to the Maros Felső (Ober-Maros) district in Maros-Torda County , then to the historical Mureș District and, from 1950, today's Mureș District.

population

The population of the Crăiești municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 944 801 71 2 70
1930 1,400 1,262 97 1 40
1966 1,988 1.927 59 - 2
2002 1,026 1,019 7th - -
2011 924 888 5 - 31

Since 1850, the highest number of inhabitants and that of Romanians in 1966 have been registered in the area of ​​today's municipality. The highest number of Magyars (152) was determined in 1941, the Roma (70) in 1850 and that of the Romanian Germans (26) in 1900.

Attractions

  • Town hall in Crăieşti

  • Reformed church in Crăieşti

  • Wooden church in Milășel

Web links

Commons : Crăiești  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Arcanum Kézikönyvtár: Historical-administrative book of place names of Transylvania, Banat and Partium. Retrieved December 6, 2018 (Hungarian).
  3. ^ Marius Frățilă: Bistrița-Năsăud: Mocănița Transilvaniei își reia cursele turistice la sfârșitul lunii mai. AGERPRES, May 17, 2017, accessed December 6, 2018 (Romanian).
  4. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  5. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian)
  6. ↑ Information on the Orthodox Church in Crăiești at biserici.org, accessed on December 9, 2018 (Romanian)
  7. ↑ Information on the Reformed Church in Crăiești at biserici.org, accessed on December 9, 2018 (Romanian)
  8. ↑ Information on the wooden church in Milășel at biserici.org, accessed on December 9, 2018 (Romanian)