Frata

Frata
Magyarfráta

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Cluj

Coordinates :

46 ° 42 ' N , 24 ° 3' E Coordinates: 46 ° 42 '7 " N , 24 ° 3' 22" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

396 m

Area :

72 km²

Residents :

4,242 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

59 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

407285

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 64

License plate :

CJ

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

local community

Structure :

Frata, Berchieșu , Oaș , Olariu , Pădurea Iacobeni , Poiana Frății , Răzoare , Soporu de Câmpie

Mayor :

Vasile Trif ( PNL )

Postal address :

Str. Principală, no. 419
loc. Frata, jud. Cluj, RO-407285

Website :

www.primariafrata.ro

Frata (outdated: Frata Ungurească ; Hungarian Magyarfráta ) is a municipality in Cluj County , in Transylvania , Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the Frata commune in Cluj County

The municipality of Frata is located in the west of the Transylvanian Basin, east of the 526 m high mountain Țigla Frata . The community center is located about 28 kilometers north of the city of Câmpia Turzii (Jerischmarkt) and about 55 kilometers east of the district capital of Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) by the Valea Morii brook and on the DJ 150 district road (Drum județean) .

Less than four kilometers of the approximately 60 kilometers of roads between the incorporated villages of the municipality are asphalted.

history

The place Frata was first mentioned in documents in 1241 or 1293, according to different sources. In the Middle Ages the place was inhabited by Romanian and Hungarian people. Settlement of the municipality of Frata near Măzărişte on the area of the incorporated village of Soporu de Câmpie (Hungarian Mezőszopor ) goes back to the Bronze Age .

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged to the chair district of Mocs in Cluj County and Marosludas in Torda-Aranyos County , then to the historical districts of Cluj and Turda and from 1950 to today's district of Cluj.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1880	2,619	2,202	213	19th	185
1920	3,989	3,476	414	-	99
1966	6,506	5,890	336	-	280
2002	4,382	3.834	186	1	361
2011	4,242	3,430	149	-	663 (Roma 492)

Since 1880 the highest number of inhabitants and that of the Romanians in 1966 have been determined in the area of today's municipality. The highest population of the Magyars (562) was registered in 1900, that of the Roma in 2011 and that of the Romanian Germans (34) in 1900.

Attractions

In the incorporated village of Berchieşu (ung. Berkényes ) the orthodox wooden church Sf. Arhangheli Mihail și Gavriil , built in 1747, is a listed building.
In the community center the Greek Catholic wooden church Pogorârea Sf. Duh , built in 1827, is a listed building, and the Reformed Church was built in 1842.
In the incorporated village of Soporu de Câmpie the monastery Sf. Treime built in 1994.