Fărăgău

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Fărăgău
wooden village
Faragó
Coat of arms of Fărăgău
Fărăgău (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Mureș
Coordinates : 46 ° 46 '  N , 24 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 45 '53 "  N , 24 ° 31' 1"  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
Website :

Fărăgău [ fərəˈgəu ] ( German  Hölzeldorf , Hungarian Faragó ) is a municipality in the Mureș County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Fărăgău in Mureș County

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
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

  • Church in Poarta

  • Church in Tonciu

  • The Fărăgău lake

Web links

Commons : Fărăgău  - 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. ↑ INEDIT. Șase localități mureșene sunt nelocuite, există doar pe hârtie! ardealnews.ro, December 27, 2018, accessed July 23, 2019 (Romanian).
  4. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian)
  5. ↑ Marian Petcu: Istoria jurnalismului din România în date: enciclopedie cronologică , POLIROM, Iasi 2012, ISBN 978-973-46-3067-7 .
  6. ↑ Information on the Reformed Church in Tonciu at biserici.org, accessed on January 5, 2019 (Romanian)
  7. ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian)
  8. ↑ Information on the wooden church in Poarta at biserici.org, accessed on January 5, 2019 (Romanian)
  9. ↑ Information on Lake Fărăgău from LEGE no. 5 on March 6, 2000 , accessed from cdep.ro on January 5, 2019 (Romanian)
  10. ↑ Information on Lake Fărăgău from protectedplanet.net accessed on January 5, 2019 (Romanian)