Feen

Foieni is a redirect to this article. Further meanings are listed under Foieni (disambiguation) .

Foieni Fienen Mezőfény
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Sathmar
Circle :	Satu Mare
Coordinates :	47 ° 42 '  N , 22 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 41 '55 "  N , 22 ° 23' 20"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Area :	40.37  km²
Residents :	1,840 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	46 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	447135
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 61
License plate :	SM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Mayor :	László Brém ( UDMR )
Postal address :	Str. Principală, no. 469 loc. Foieni, jud. Satu Mare, RO-447135
Website :	www.consiliullocalfoieni.ro

Fienen ( Romanian Foieni , Hungarian Mezőfény ) is a place in the Satu Mare district in northwest Romania .

Location of the village

Location of the Foieni municipality in Satu Mare County

View of Foieni

In the northwest, the municipality of Fienen borders on Hungary. Neighboring places on Romanian territory are the city of Carei (Groß-Karol) and the places Urziceni (Schönthal) and Sanislău . The distance to the district capital Satu Mare (Sathmar) is about forty kilometers.

The village is located on the Valea Neagră stream .

history

Even before the colonization with Sathmar Swabians , there was a settlement on site. However, this was destroyed several times (e.g. in the course of the Tatar invasions ) and was uninhabited around 1700.

The first German settlers arrived in Fienen around 1720.

population

The 2002 census revealed the following ethnic composition of the population: 55.5% were Hungarians , 41.6% Germans , 2.8% Romanians , 0.1% Ukrainians . In 2016, 1840 people were registered in Foieni, of whom 1266 were Magyars, 384 Romanian Germans, 104 Roma and 69 Romanians.

politics

The local council in Fienen consists of 11 councils and in 2016 consists of seven members of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania , two members of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania and one member each from the PNL and the independent candidate Attila Békési.

traffic

The place is on the national road DN 19 from Sathmar coming from Satu Mare . In addition, a district road (drum județean) leads 'DJ' to Carei, six kilometers away.

Attractions

• Saint Michaels Church ( Roman Catholic )
• Mayor's office

Twin cities

• Vállaj , ( Hungary )
• Mérk , (Hungary)

Web links and sources

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

• Found on the Satu Mare County Council website
• Fienen on the website of the Romanian government department for interethnic relations ( Memento from November 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
2. ↑ Official German-language name according to Romanian government resolution 1415 of December 6, 2002 ( Official Journal ( Memento of September 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ))
3. ↑ Population data (Hungarian)
4. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB).
5. ↑ Alegeri locale 5th June 2016: Mandate atribiuite pentru Consilieri locali. (MS Excel; 1.1 MB) Retrieved September 6, 2019 (Romanian).