Fărăgău
Fărăgău wooden village Faragó |
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Romania | |||
Historical region : | Transylvania | |||
Circle : | Mureș | |||
Coordinates : | 46 ° 46 ' N , 24 ° 31' E | |||
Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | |||
Height : | 396 m | |||
Area : | 39.75 km² | |||
Residents : | 1,683 (October 20, 2011) | |||
Population density : | 42 inhabitants per km² | |||
Postal code : | 547225 | |||
Telephone code : | (+40) 02 65 | |||
License plate : | MS | |||
Structure and administration (as of 2016) | ||||
Community type : | local community | |||
Structure : | Fărăgău, Fânațe , Hodaia , Onuca , Poarta , Tonciu | |||
Mayor : | Ioan Milășan ( PSD ) | |||
Postal address : | Str. Principală, no. 40 / a loc. Fărăgău, jud. Mureș, RO-547225 |
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Fărăgău [ fərəˈgəu ] ( German Hölzeldorf , Hungarian Faragó ) is a municipality in the Mureș County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .
Geographical location
The municipality of Fărăgău is located in the Transylvanian Heath (Câmpia Transilvaniei) - part of the Transylvanian Basin - in the west of the Mureș County. On the upper reaches of the Șar, a right tributary of the Mureș (Mieresch) and the Drum național 16 , the place Fărăgău is located 18 kilometers west of Reghin (Saxon rain) and about 35 kilometers north of the district capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) .
history
The place Fărăgău was first mentioned in 1357 and was a Romanian Knesendorf in the Middle Ages .
In the Kingdom of Hungary , the place belonged to the chair district of Teke in the Cluj County, then to the historical Mureş District and from 1950 to the present Mureş District.
The unincorporated village Hodaia (Hungarian Faragótanya ) is one of the currently 130 uninhabited villages of Romania, six of them in a circle Mures (as of 2018).
population
The population of the municipality of Fărăgău developed as follows:
census | Ethnic composition | ||||
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year | population | Romanians | Hungary | German | other |
1850 | 1,791 | 957 | 685 | - | 149 |
1920 | 2,437 | 1,407 | 999 | 6th | 25th |
1956 | 3,161 | 2,028 | 975 | 1 | 157 |
2002 | 1,659 | 815 | 227 | - | 617 |
2011 | 1,683 | 712 | 264 | 2 | 705 (Roma 641) |
Since 1850 the highest number of inhabitants and that of the Romanians in 1956 have been registered in the area of today's municipality. The highest number of Magyars (1,149) was determined in 1941, Roma (641) in 2011 and Romanian Germans (12) in 1910.
Personalities
- Teodor Bogdan (1877–1945), born in Fărăgău, was a folklorist.
Attractions
- In the incorporated village of Tonciu (Tesch) the reformed church was built between 1410 and 1450, has a painted coffered ceiling and is a listed building.
- In the incorporated village of Poarta (Birnthor) the wooden church Sfinții Arhangheli Mihail și Gavril , built around 1880, renovated in 1965.
- On the area of the municipality, the river Șar forms , according to various sources, 35 or 42 hectares of the Fărăgău Lake , a nature reserve of IUCN Category III biotope and species protection areas .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
- ↑ a b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
- ↑ INEDIT. Șase localități mureșene sunt nelocuite, există doar pe hârtie! ardealnews.ro, December 27, 2018, accessed July 23, 2019 (Romanian).
- ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian)
- ↑ Marian Petcu: Istoria jurnalismului din România în date: enciclopedie cronologică , POLIROM, Iasi 2012, ISBN 978-973-46-3067-7 .
- ↑ Information on the Reformed Church in Tonciu at biserici.org, accessed on January 5, 2019 (Romanian)
- ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian)
- ↑ Information on the wooden church in Poarta at biserici.org, accessed on January 5, 2019 (Romanian)
- ↑ Information on Lake Fărăgău from LEGE no. 5 on March 6, 2000 , accessed from cdep.ro on January 5, 2019 (Romanian)
- ↑ Information on Lake Fărăgău from protectedplanet.net accessed on January 5, 2019 (Romanian)