Freidorf (Timișoara)
Freidorf (Romanian and German; Hungarian Szabadfalu or Szabadfalva ) is the 7th district of Timișoara ( German Temeswar ) in western Romania . The city district was originally an independent village in the Banat, mostly inhabited by Germans . This was incorporated into Timișoara in 1950 and has around 1500 inhabitants on an area of 156 hectares.
geography
Freidorf is located on a low level with a very high water table . Excess water is fed into the Bega through a pumping station for drainage . The place has with the Gara Timișoara Vest ( German Timişoara West train station ) connection to the railway network.
history
In 1984, human bones were found in the foundations of a factory during construction. Archaeologists found remains of a Dako-Romanesque settlement from the 3rd / 4th centuries. Century, overlaid by a 5th century necropolis . Systematic research continues to this day.
The first settlers from the Swabian Mountains named the place after the village of their origin, Freidorf in Alsace . The place was first mentioned in May 1719 in a request to Emperor Charles VI. In 1720 Freidorf was recorded on a map for the first time, at that time with eight houses. The founder of the community, Franz Paul von Wallis , had a vegetable garden laid out for the general kitchen on part of the village. This created a village whose inhabitants were mainly involved in commercial horticulture. The settlers built a school and a windmill, as well as a Catholic church; the first still made of wood, the second and still existing parish church of Saint Roch in 1736 made of bricks.
In 1836 the population was hit by a cholera epidemic. In 1850 Hungarian and Romanian families also settled here. In addition to agricultural products, they also produced bricks for the growing city of Timisoara.
Timisoara was besieged by Hungarian troops during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848/49 , but the city's military remained loyal to the Austrian emperor. The Hungarian general Józef Bem set up a military camp in Freidorf. During this time, Bem lived in the Freidorfer rectory. Among his soldiers was the Hungarian poet and folk hero Major Sándor Petőfi , for whom a monument was unveiled in Freidorf in 1889. Hundreds of Hungarians still gather in Petőfi Park on March 15th every year to lay wreaths at his monument. After the integration of the Banat into the Kingdom of Hungary , Freidorf was called Szabadfalu or Szabadfalva between 1894 and 1918 .
On October 3, 1998, a memorial to the German soldiers who died in the First World War was inaugurated in the Freidorf cemetery .
economy
1967 in Beregsau Mare the Comtim , the biggest pig in Romania, built up, which had a branch in Freidorf. After the Romanian Revolution , the plant closed in the early 1990s. The production facilities were acquired in 2004 by Smithfield Foods , the world's largest pig breeding and pork processing company, and reopened on April 2, 2009.
The Freidorf industrial park , located in the southwest of the town, has a total area of 47.9 hectares. The following companies, among others, have settled there:
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The sewage treatment plant that treats Timișoara's wastewater is also located in Freidorf.
Personalities
- Johnny Weissmüller (1904–1984), Austrian-Hungarian, American multiple swimming Olympic champion and Tarzan actor; he was the first person to swim the 100-meter distance under a minute.
- Patricia Barbara Zimmermann (1914–2007), German Benedictine
- Janos Frecot (* 1937) German cultural historian, editor of musicological bibliographies
- Nikolaus Berwanger (1935–1989), German writer and journalist
literature
- Florin Medeleț, Dan Buruleanu: Timișoara, Povestea orașelor sale .
- Marlen Negrescu, Dan Pura: Navigația pe Bega - Secvențe istorice , Editura Brumar, Timișoara, 2006.
- Timiș - Monograph , Editura Sport - Turism, 1981.
- Elke Hoffmann, Peter-Dietmar Leber and Walter Wolf : The Banat and the Banat Swabians. Volume 5. Cities and Villages , Media Group Universal Grafische Betriebe München GmbH, Munich, 2011, 670 pages, ISBN 3-922979-63-7 .
photos
Roman Catholic Church in Freidorf
Gara Timisoara Vest , West train station in Freidorf
Apartment block in Freidorf, Zona Ioan Slavici
View from Podul Modos to the Bega Canal near Freidorf
Municipal house Casa Freidorf
Pumping station in Freidorf
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ adevarul.ro ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), Comtim, un brand comunist reinventat de americani
- ↑ primariatm.ro , Noi investitori străini în Parcul Industrial Freidorf No. 36 , November 2005
- ↑ foodnavigator.com , Nestle Romania invests in wafers , June 16, 2004
Coordinates: 45 ° 44 ' N , 21 ° 11' E
