Cristești (Mureș)

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Cristești
Maroskeresztúr
Cristeşti (Mureş) coat of arms
Cristești (Mureș) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Mureș
Coordinates : 46 ° 30 ′  N , 24 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 9 ″  N , 24 ° 29 ′ 32 ″  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 302  m
Area : 13.35  km²
Residents : 5,824 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 436 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 547185
Telephone code : (+40) 02 65
License plate : MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Cristeşti, Vălureni
Mayor : Edit Kovács (independent)
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 678
loc. Cristeşti, jud. Mureș, RO-547185
Website :

Cristeşti [ kristeʃtʲ ] (deprecated Muras-Cristur ; Hungarian Maroskeresztúr ) is a commune in Mureş County , in the region of Transylvania in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Cristeşti in Mureş County

The municipality of Cristești is located in the Transylvanian Basin (Podișul Transilvaniei) , north of the Kokel Valley (Podișul Târnavelor) , on the upper reaches of the Mureș (Mieresch) . On the national road DN15 - here part of the European route 60 - and the railway line Alba Iulia – Târgu Mureş (stop Târgu Mureş Sud ), the place Cristeşti borders on the south of the district capital Târgu Mureş (Neumarkt am Mieresch) .

The incorporated village of Vălureni (Hungarian Székelykakasd ) is about five kilometers from the community center.

history

The place Cristeşti was first mentioned in 1332.

On the area of ​​the place, known by the locals as Hosuba - Asomureș , archaeological finds point to settlement as far back as Roman times - probably a Roman fort . At Cariera de nisip (sand pit), on the national road to Târgu Mureș, a Scythian necropolis from the Latène period is noted.

In the Middle Ages Cristeşti was a place inhabited by Szekler , in which the Hungarian noble family Vas settled after 1660 Romanian serfs.

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged to the Maros alsó (Unter-Maros) district in Maros-Torda County , then to the historical Mureș District and, from 1950, today's Mureș District.

population

The population of the Cristești municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 764 283 455 2 24
1930 1,739 461 1,164 2 112
1966 4.164 1,459 2,681 5 19th
1992 5,622 2,250 2,833 1 538
2011 5,824 2,465 2,512 - 847

The highest number of inhabitants has been registered in the area of ​​today's municipality since 1850 and that of Romanians and Roma (599) in 2011. The highest population of the Magyars was determined in 1992 and that of the Romanian Germans in 1966.

Attractions

  • In the community center the old reformed church , built at the end of the 18th century.
  • The reformed church in the incorporated village of Vălureni, built around 1860.

  • town hall

  • In the background the old reformed church in Cristeşti

  • New Reformed Church in Cristeşti

  • Reformed Church in Vălureni

personality

  • József Tövissi (1927–2015), born in Vălureni, was a geographer and university professor.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ a b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  3. ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian)
  4. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian)
  5. ↑ Information on the Reformed Church in Cristești at biserici.org, accessed on April 8, 2018 (Romanian)
  6. ↑ Information on the Reformed Church in Vălureni at biserici.org, accessed on April 8, 2018 (Romanian)
  7. ↑ Memory of József Tövissi