Gălești (Mureș)

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Gălești
Gallendorf
Nyárádgálfalva
Coat of arms of Gălești (Mureș)
Gălești (Mureș) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Mureș
Coordinates : 46 ° 31 '  N , 24 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 30 '44 "  N , 24 ° 45' 26"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 357  m
Area : 57.79  km²
Residents : 3,067 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 53 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 547245
Telephone code : (+40) 02 65
License plate : MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Gălești, Adrianu Mare , Adrianu Mic , Bedeni , Maiad , Sânvăsii , Troița
Mayor : Károly Karácsony ( UDMR )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 64
loc. Găleşti, jud. Mureș, RO-547245
Website :
Others
City Festival : April 25th and August 22nd, annual fair

Găleşti [ ˈgəleʃtʲ ] (outdated Galfalău ; German  Gallendorf , Hungarian Nyárádgálfalva or Gálfalva ) is a municipality in the Mureş district , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Găleşti in Mureş County

The municipality of Gălești is located north of the Kokel Valley (Podișul Târnavelor) in the southern part of the Mureș County. On the Niraj , a left tributary of the Mureș (Mieresch) and the district road (Drum județean) DJ 151D (6 km east of the DN13 ), the place Gălești is 18 kilometers southeast of the district capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) .

Until about 2010 a narrow-gauge railway operated on the area of ​​the municipality of the original narrow-gauge line from Cristeşti to the small spa town of Sovata (Szováta) .

history

The place Găleşti, founded by Szekler , was first mentioned in 1501. The remains of a castle on the area known by the locals as Sigervára of the incorporated village of Sânvăsii (Hungarian Nyárádszentlászló ) indicate that the village was settled in the Middle Ages . Numerous archaeological finds from the Neolithic to Roman times were found on the area of ​​the community center.

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged to the Maros Felső (Ober-Maros) district in Maros-Torda County , then to the historical Mureș District and, from 1950, today's Mureș District.

population

The population of the municipality of Gălești developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 3,317 398 2,715 - 204
1900 3,947 12 3,909 16 10
1956 4,566 68 4,411 1 86
2002 2,940 44 2,752 - 144
2011 3,067 68 2,611 - 388 (Roma 45)

Since 1850, the highest number of inhabitants and that of the Magyars were registered in the area of ​​today's municipality in 1956. The highest population of Romanians (1,316) was determined in 1920, that of Roma (200) in 1850 and that of Romanian Germans in 1900.

Attractions

  • In the community center the house of the Tonay family (Str. Principală, no. 54), built in the 17th century, is a listed building.
  • In the seven villages of Gălești municipality, 18 churches of different denominations are listed on Biserici.org .
  • In unincorporated village Maiad (Hungarian nyomat ) the Unitarian Church , built in the 14th and the bell tower in the 18th century, are listed buildings.
  • In the incorporated village of Sânvăsii the Unitarian church, built at the end of the 14th at the beginning of the 15th century, is a listed building.
  • In the incorporated village of Troița ( Szentháromság in Hungarian ) the Roman Catholic church , built in the 15th century (according to the Romanian Ministry of Culture, only the bell tower) and the wooden Orthodox church built at the end of the 17th and early 18th centuries are listed buildings.
  • In the incorporated village of Bedeni (Hungarian Bede ) the reformed church was built in 1844.

  • Unitarian Church in Găleşti

  • Reformed Church in Găleşti

  • Reformed Church in Maiad

  • Unitarian Church in Maiad

  • Wooden church in Maiad

  • Catholic Church in Maiad

  • Unitarian Church in Sânvăsii

  • Catholic Church in Troița

  • Wooden church in Troița

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Arcanum Kézikönyvtár: Historical-administrative book of place names of Transylvania, Banat and Partium. Retrieved May 15, 2018 (Hungarian).
  3. ↑ Trecerile la nivel cu soseaua E60 din Ungheni si Acatari au fost desfiintate at transira.ro, accessed on May 25, 2018 (Romanian)
  4. ↑ a b c Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  5. ↑ Institute Of Archeology - Sânvăsii , accessed on May 25, 2018 (Romanian).
  6. ↑ Institute Of Archeology - Găleşti , accessed on May 25, 2018 (Romanian).
  7. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian)
  8. ↑ a b c d List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian)
  9. ↑ Information on churches of different denominations at biserici.org, accessed on May 26, 2018 (Romanian)
  10. ↑ Information on the Unitarian Church in Maiad at biserici.org, accessed on May 26, 2018 (Romanian)
  11. ↑ Information on the Unitarian Church in Sânvăsii at biserici.org, accessed on May 26, 2018 (Romanian)
  12. ↑ Information on the Reformed Church in Bedeni at biserici.org, accessed on May 26, 2018 (Romanian)
  13. ↑ Information on Mihály Szentiváni at mek.oszk.hu/ accessed on May 15, 2018 (Hungarian)