Geamăna (Alba)
Geamana [ d͡ʒeaməna ] (deprecated Sasavinţa or Şasavinţa ; Hungarian Szászavinc or Szászpataka ) was a village in the county of Alba in the region of Transylvania in Romania . It belonged to the municipality of Lupşa .
In 1970 around 1000 people - in around 400 families - were resettled because the government had a sedimentation basin built into which the chemical waste from the nearby copper mine Roșia Poieni is discharged. Of the steeple of the Orthodox Church, only the roof structure protrudes from the approximately 130 hectare lake (as of 2018). Of ARTE was in : ARTE series Re a film about publishes the village and the expulsion of the last inhabitants.
population
At the census of 1850, 1,088 people lived in the area of the then village. The highest population (1309) was reached in 1941; ten of them described themselves as Germans , the rest were Romanians . In 1977 there were 45 Romanians living in Geamăna. In 2018, eleven families are still recorded.
Web links
- The Shared Fate of Treece, Kan., And Geamana, Romania
- Pictures before and after the flood beiadevarul.ro
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arcanum Kézikönyvtár: Historical-administrative book of place names of Transylvania, Banat and Partium. Retrieved March 25, 2018 (Hungarian).
- ↑ picture of the former village
- ↑ Geamăna at eather.com
- ^ A b ADZ Bucharest (ed.): German Yearbook for Romania . Honterus, Hermannstadt / Sibiu, 2018, ISSN 2559-4869 , p. 310 .
- ↑ Youtube Video: The sunken village ARTE Re:
- ↑ Census, last updated October 30, 2008 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.2 MB)
Coordinates: 46 ° 20 ' N , 23 ° 13' E