Gănești (Mureș)

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Gănești
Gallendorf
Vámosgálfalva
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Gănești (Mureș) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Mureș
Coordinates : 46 ° 20 '  N , 24 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 20 '6 "  N , 24 ° 21' 28"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 325  m
Area : 49.64  km²
Residents : 3,573 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 72 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 547255
Telephone code : (+40) 02 65
License plate : MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Gănești, Păucișoara , Seuca , Sub Pădure
Mayor : Elemér Balog ( UDMR )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 548
loc. Găneşti, jud. Mureș, RO-547255
Website :

Gănești [ ˈgəneʃtʲ ] (outdated Galfalău or Ganfalău ; German  Gallendorf , Hungarian Vámosgálfalva ) is a municipality in the Mureș County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

The place Găneşti is also known under the German names Hahnendorf and Hannendorf and the Hungarian Küküllőgálfalva and Gálfalva .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Găneşti in Mureş County

The municipality of Găneşti is located in the Kokel Valley (Podişul Târnavelor) in the southern part of the Mureş County. On the upper reaches of the Târnava Mică (Little Kokel) , the county road (Drum județean) DJ 142 and the Blaj – Târnăveni – Praid railway , the place Găneşti is five kilometers east of the city of Târnăveni (Saint Martin) and 33 kilometers southwest of the district capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) away.

history

The place Găneşti was first mentioned in a document in 1302 or 1314, according to different sources. Archaeological objects from the Neolithic Age were found in the area of ​​the village of Găneşti . In the Middle Ages there were several small Hungarian noble courts in the village. In 1638 the first presbytery in Transylvania was founded here in Gallendorf .

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged to the chair district Dicsőszentmárton ( Târnăveni ) in the County of Klein-Kokelburg , then to the historic district of Târnava-Mică and from 1950 to the present-day Mureş district.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 2,527 1.109 1,349 - 69
1930 3,876 1,180 2,542 11 143
1966 4,575 1,387 3,026 31 131
2002 3,836 974 2,565 4th 293
2011 3,573 858 2,290 2 423 (Roma 344)

Since 1850, the highest number of Romanians and Romanian Germans were registered in the area of ​​today's municipality in 1966. The highest population of the Magyars (3052) in 1977 and that of the Roma in 2011.

Attractions

  • The Roman Catholic Church built in Găneşti from 1806 to 1809 is a listed building.
  • In the incorporated village of Seuca (Dunkeldorf) the property of the Rhédei-Rothenthal estate , built at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, is a listed building. Corp B was founded in the 18th century; Corp A erected in 1898.
  • In the incorporated village of Sub Pădure (Unterwald) the wooden church Sf. Arhanghel with the bell tower built in the 17th century and the apse in the 18th century are listed buildings. The building is left to decay.
  • In the four villages of the parish there are four Orthodox churches , three Reformed churches , two Roman Catholic churches, a Unitarian church and a sacred building of the Pentecostal movement .

  • Country estate Rhédei-Rothenthal, Corp A

  • Rhédei-Rothenthal, Corp B

  • Catholic Church in Seuca

  • Wooden church in Sub Pădure

Town twinning

The villages of the municipality of Găneşti maintain town partnerships with the district of Csepel of Budapest and the Hungarian communities Nagyhegyes , Tiszalúc , Vámosatya and Magyarcsanád .

Web links

Commons : Gănești  - 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 February 3, 2018 (Hungarian).
  3. ↑ a b c Găneşti municipality: Istorie. primariaganesti.ro, accessed March 3, 2018 (Romanian).
  4. ↑ a b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  5. ↑ Institute Of Archeology - Ganesti , accessed on March 4, 2018 (Romanian).
  6. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian)
  7. ↑ a b c List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian)
  8. ↑ Găneşti municipality: Localități înfrățite. primariaganesti.ro, accessed March 3, 2018 (Romanian).