Dârlos

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Dârlos
Durles
Darlac
Dârlos has no coat of arms
Dârlos (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Sibiu
Coordinates : 46 ° 11 '  N , 24 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 11 '14 "  N , 24 ° 24' 29"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 320  m
Area : 41  km²
Residents : 2,820 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 69 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 557090
Telephone code : (+40) 02 69
License plate : SB
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Dârlos, Curciu , Valea Lungă
Mayor : Ioan Lupu ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 590
loc. Dârlos, jud. Sibiu, RO-557090
Website :

Dârlos (old spelling Dîrlos [ ˈdɨrlos ]; German  Durles , Hungarian Darlac ) is a municipality in the Sibiu district in Transylvania , Romania .

Geographical location

Location of Dârlos in Sibiu County

The municipality of Dârlos is located on the right bank of the Târnava Mare ( Great Kokel ) - a tributary of the Târnava ( Kokel ) - in the far north of Sibiu County. On the border with Mureș County , Dârlos is located on the county road ( drum județean ) DJ 142E five kilometers east of Mediaș ( Mediasch ) and about 65 kilometers northeast of the district capital Sibiu ( Hermannstadt ).

history

The settlement was first mentioned in 1317 under the name Possesio Darlaz . As early as the middle of the 19th century, the Romanians made up the majority of the population in the place.

Already during the time of socialism , but especially after the political change of 1989 in Romania , the majority of the German-speaking population emigrated to Germany , so that only 190 people from the community identified themselves as Germans in the 1992 census , compared to 1,094 in the year 1977. In 2011, 2,280 people were registered on the territory of the Dârlos municipality. 2,060 of them were Romanians, 595 were Roma , 55 were Hungarians and 30 described themselves as Romanian Germans .

Education, economy and social

The community has two kindergartens and two primary schools . The main occupation of the residents of Dârlos is livestock and agriculture .

traffic

The community can be reached via the national road ( drum național ) DN 14, which leads from Sibiu to Sighișoara ( Schäßburg ).

Attractions

  • The Protestant church in Durles, built in the 15th century, is a listed building.
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Personalities

  • Visarion Roman (1833–1885), publicist and politician, was born here.
  • Ilarie Chendi (1872–1913) writer and journalist, was born here.
  • Ioan Moraru (1927–1989), an important Romanian doctor, was born here.
  • Stefan Sienerth (* 1948), literary historian, was born here.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ^ Sabin Adrian Luca, Zeno Karl Pinter, Adrian Georgescu: Repertoriu Sibiu 2003
  3. ↑ Hungarian-language website with information on population statistics
  4. ↑ Dârlos at ghidulprimariilor.ro
  5. ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (Romanian; PDF; 7.10 MB)
  6. ↑ a b http://www.cjsibiu.ro/ro/dirlos.php ( Memento from February 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Dârlos
  7. ↑ Article about Ioan Moraru in the rum. Wikipedia
  8. ^ Article about Stefan Sienerth in the "Siebenbürgische Zeitung" from 27. III. 2008