Dumbrăvița (Brașov)

Dumbrăvița Schnakendorf Szunyogszék
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Transylvania
Circle :	Brașov
Coordinates :	45 ° 46 '  N , 25 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 45 '59 "  N , 25 ° 26' 17"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	536  m
Area :	102.76  km²
Residents :	4,624 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	45 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	507060
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 68
License plate :	BV
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Dumbrăvița, Vlădeni
Mayor :	Zachiu Popa ( PNL )
Postal address :	Str. Mare, no. 1176 loc. Dumbrăvița, jud. Brașov RO-507060

Dumbrăvița (outdated Țânțari or Țânțariu ; German  Schnakendorf or Schnackendorf , Hungarian Szunyogszék or Szunyogszeg ) is a municipality in the Brașov district in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the Dumbrăvița municipality in the Brașov district

The municipality Dumbrăvița is located southeast of the Transylvanian Basin north of the Măgura Codlei (Zeidner Berg) , in the center of the Brașov district. At the confluence of the Valea Caselor brook into the Homorod - a left tributary of the Olt (Alt) -, on the district road ( drum județean ) DJ 112C and on the Brașov – Făgăraș railway line , Dumbrăvița is about 10 kilometers north of Codlea (Zeiden) ; the district capital Brașov (Kronstadt) is located about 25 kilometers southeast.

history

The place Dumbrăvița was mentioned in a document in 1470. At the end of the 18th century, the place was the seat of a border regiment in the Hungarian kingdom .

In the Kingdom of Hungary, the municipality was in the Törcsvár chair district (today Bran ) in Fogaras County , then in Făgăraş County and from 1950 in what is now Braşov County.

According to various sources, from 1960, Law No. 3 of 1960 or 1965 changed the former name of the place Țânțari into the current Dumbrăvița . In 2015, the then mayor of the municipality initiated a survey, with 90% of the residents surveyed agreeing to rename the place back.

population

In the 1850 census, 2964 people were counted in the area of ​​the Dumbrăvița municipality. In the municipality, which is predominantly Romanian , the highest number of inhabitants (5160) and also that of Romanians (5050) were registered in 1977. The highest population of Roma (466) was determined in 2002, that of Magyars (60) in 1910 and that of Romanian Germans (24) in 1890. In 2011, 4,624 people lived in the Dumbrăvița municipality. 4294 were Romanians, 148 Roma, 18 Magyars, four Romanian Germans and the rest did not provide any information about their ethnicity.

Attractions

• The Romanian Orthodox Churches Sf. Nicolae in Dumbrăvița and the Sf. Vasile cel Mare in the incorporated village of Vlădeni ( Wladein ).
• In Dumbrăvița the Moara veche ("old mill" in Gării Street No. 959), built in 1887, is a listed building.
• The Complexul piscicol Dumbrăvița , an almost 420 hectare nature reserve with an approximately 1.8 km² lake and several smaller ponds along the Homorod.
• A heroes' cemetery with the Soviet war graves from World War II on European route 68 near the incorporated village of Vlădeni. ( ⊙ )

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  Leopold Adler: Vlădeni, early 20th century.

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  View of Dumbrăvița

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  Russian Heroes Cemetery

Web links

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

• Dumbrăvița on the Brașov Board of Directors website
• Dumbrăvița at ghidulprimariilor.ro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Arcanum Kézikönyvtár: Historical-administrative place-names book of Transylvania, Banat and Partium. Retrieved January 10, 2019 (Hungarian). 
3. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
4. ↑ ^{a b} Comuna Dumbrăvița revine la denumirea de "Țânțari"! ( PDF ; 36.3 kB) Retrieved January 10, 2019 (Romanian). 
5. ↑ Census, last updated November 1, 2008 (Hungarian; PDF; 521 kB)
6. ↑ Information on the Sf. Nicolae in Dumbrăvița from biserici.org accessed on March 25, 2016 (Romanian)
7. ↑ Information on the Sf. Vasile cel Mare in Vlădeni from biserici.org accessed on March 25, 2016 (Romanian)
8. ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)
9. ↑ Information on the Dumbrăvița nature reserve at dumbravita-natura2000.ro ( memento of the original from March 26, 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. accessed on March 25, 2016 (Romanian)