Gârbău

Gârbău old spelling Gîrbău [ gɨrˈbəu ] ( German Gorbau , Hungarian Magyargorbó ) is a municipality in the Cluj district , in Transylvania , Romania .

Geographical location

Location of Gârbău commune in Cluj county

The municipality of Gârbău is located in the west of the Transylvanian Basin south of the Somesch Highlands (Podișul Someșelor) in the west of the Cluj district. Am Bach Nadas - a left tributary of the Someşul Mic (Small Somes) -, the county road (Drum Judeţean) DJ 108C and the railway line Oradea-Cluj-Napoca is the place Gârbău located about 20 kilometers north-west of the district capital of Cluj-Napoca (Cluj ) removed.

history

The place Gârbău was first mentioned in 1437. In the Middle Ages the place was inhabited by Magyars and after 1600 by a majority Romanian population.

Archaeological finds of a settlement in Gârbău on the area called Dealul Babii indicate that the region was settled in Roman times . In the incorporated village of Nădășelu (Hungarian Magyarnádas ) a settlement was proven until early history at Dealul Nădeșului , Bicorit and Nadă . On the area of the incorporated village Viştea (Hungarian Magyarvista ), numerous finds, at Cărbunari , Cotior , Ghercea , Răchita and Spini , point back to settlement as far back as the Neolithic Age .

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's community belonged to the chair district Nádasmente in the County Cluj , then the historic district of Cluj and from 1950 to today's Cluj County at.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	2,731	1,394	1,159	-	178
1910	4,005	1,846	2,104	2	53
1966	3,613	1,987	1,616	-	10
2002	2,648	1,393	1,198	-	57
2011	2,440	1,190	1,082	2	166 (Roma 98)

Since 1850, the highest number of inhabitants in the area of today's municipality was determined in 1910. The highest number of Romanians (1,958) was registered in 1930, the Magyars (2,123) in 1941, the Roma (161) in 1850 and that of the Romanian Germans (17) in 1890.

Attractions

In the community center the wooden church and the country house of the Hungarian noble family Lészay (built in 1791), both built in the 19th century, are under monument protection.
In the incorporated village of Nădăşelu, the country house of the Hungarian noble family Laszay-Filip , built at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, is a listed building.
In the incorporated village of Turea (Hungarian door ) the country house of the Hungarian aristocratic family Bánffy , built in the 17th century, is a listed building. The village's former wooden church, built in 1760, has been installed in the Bucharest open-air museum "Dimitrie Gusti" since 1948 .
In the incorporated village of Viştea the reformed church built in the 16th century and its bell tower built in the 19th century are under monument protection.