Gad (Timiș)

Gad Gad, Fodorhausen Gáad, Fodorháza Gad
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Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Banat
Circle :	Timiș
Municipality :	Ghilad
Coordinates :	45 ° 28 '  N , 20 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 28 '3 "  N , 20 ° 59' 27"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Residents :	190 (2002)
Postal code :	307112
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 56
License plate :	TM
Structure and administration
Community type :	Village

Location of Gad in Timiș County

The manor house of Gudenus in Gad

Gad (1924: Gureni , German: Gad , Fodorhausen , Hungarian: Gáad , Gád , Fodorháza , Serbian: Gad ) is a village in Timiș County , Banat , Romania . Gad belongs to the municipality of Ghilad .

Geographical location

Gad is located in the southwest of Timiş County, on the left bank of the Marosch , near the border with Serbia , 20 kilometers from Ciacova and 50 kilometers from Timișoara .

Neighboring places

Foeni	Crai Nou	Ciacova
Cruceni		Ghilad
Toager	Giera	Dolaț

history

According to legend, the name of the village comes from the Voivode Glad, who fought here with the Hungarians around 895. After the armies withdrew, the village of Gad was founded and named after him.

1332-1337 the place was first mentioned in the papal tithe lists . On the Josephine land survey of 1717, the place is registered with 30 houses and belonged to the district of Ciacova . After the Peace of Passarowitz (1718), when the Banat became a Habsburg crown domain , Gad was part of the Temescher Banat . On the Mercy map from 1723 the place is inhabited by Romanians.

In 1788, Emperor Joseph II stopped at Petru Miloș in Gad on the way to Belgrade . As a thank you for his hospitality, the emperor gave him a Nonius horse from the Mezöhegyes stud.

The last landowners of Gad were Hugo and Bela Gudenus. The Gudenus fort has been preserved to this day. Thanks to the seclusion of the place and the poor transport connections, the population of Gad is falling steadily.

Fodorhausen

In the south of Gad, Fodorhausen was created in 1818 with 48 German families. After the Banat was divided into three on June 4, 1920 as a result of the Treaty of Trianon , when Fodorhausen fell to the Kingdom of Romania , the former connection to the administrative center Großbetschkerek and the nearby city of Módos , both of which had been assigned to Serbia , was interrupted. As a result, Fodorhausen was gradually abandoned and fell into disrepair. Today there is not a single house in Fodorhausen.

Demographics

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Serbs
1880	839	212	41	112	474
1910	1141	316	90	101	634
1930	1227	402	75	195	555
1977	428	240	24	14th	150
2002	190	133	7th	6th	44

The population of Fodorhausen:

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1880	114	1	-	112	1
1890	214	2	4th	208	-
1910	174	5	17th	151	1
1920	155	-	9	146	-

Attractions

• The manor house Gudenus in Gad from the 19th century was declared a historical national property.

literature

• 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 .

Web links

• prinbanat.ro , The Gudenus Castle
• banater-aktualitaet.de , Anton Zollner: Fodorhausen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} kia.hu , (PDF; 982 kB) E. Varga: Statistics of the number of inhabitants by ethnic group in the Timiș district according to censuses from 1880 - 2002