Florești (Sibiu)
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Florești rock village Földszin |
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 Romania
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| Historical region : | Transylvania | ||||
| Circle : | Sibiu | ||||
| Municipality : | Laslea | ||||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 10 ' N , 24 ° 40' E | ||||
| Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | ||||
| Height : | 411 m | ||||
| Residents : | 127 (2002) | ||||
| Postal code : | 557116 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+40) 02 69 | ||||
| License plate : | SB | ||||
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| Community type : | Village | ||||
Florești (formerly Felsa or Felța , German rock village , Hungarian Földszin ) is a village in Sibiu County ( Romania ). It belongs to the municipality of Laslea ( Großlasseln ).
location
Floreşti is remote in a southern side valley of the Târnava Mare ( Great Kokel ). The closest city is Sighișoara (about 12 km northeast).
history
Floreşti was first mentioned in a document in 1305.
The place name should be derived either from the first name "Valentin" or from the village of Filsdorf (today Filstroff , Lorraine / France ).
At that time Felsendorf belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and belonged to the Hungarian noble families Bethlen and Apafi . For several centuries the majority of the inhabitants were Transylvanian Saxons who called the place Filsdorf or Felsendorf . Unlike many other villages in the area, Felsendorf was not on Königsboden , but was owned by the nobility and its inhabitants were therefore serfs .
After Felsendorf belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary , the Principality of Transylvania and Austria-Hungary until the end of the First World War , it has been part of the state of Romania since then.
population
In 1786 there were 224 inhabitants. Since the 19th century - besides a few Hungarians and Gypsies - Transylvanian Saxons and Romanians lived in the village in roughly equal numbers. In 1941 the largest number of inhabitants was registered with 381; slightly more than 50% of them were German. From the end of the Second World War, most of the residents were Romanians. Most Germans emigrated after the revolution of 1989. As a result, the population of Florești decreased significantly.
In 2002 there were still 127 people living in Floreşti; 75 of them described themselves as Romanians, 45 as Gypsies, two as Germans and five as Hungarians. In 1995 not a single member of the (German) Evangelical Lutheran Church was registered in Romania .
traffic
Florești is located on a dirt road that leads south from Laslea. Public transport doesn't touch the place.
The nearest train station is about 8 km north of Floreşti on the Teiuş – Braşov railway line ( Luna stop ).
Attractions
In the village there is a church built by the Bethlen family in 1424, which became a Protestant church in Transylvania after the Reformation. Since the departure of the German residents, the church stood empty and was in a disastrous state. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Romania handed it over to the British foundation “Mihai Eminescu Trust” in order to preserve the building if the financial means were available. The original altar from 1550 and the neo-Gothic altar from 1899 were brought to the Sighișoara Museum.
At the instigation of the Mihai Eminescu Trust and with financial means from the Dutch foundation "Horizon", the church was restored and consecrated again in October 2008.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
- ↑ a b www.genealogy.net
- ↑ www.kia.hu (ung.) (PDF; 596 kB)
- ↑ Hermannstädter Zeitung, October 10, 2008 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
