Ghelința

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Ghelința
Gelentz
Gelence
Ghelința coat of arms
Ghelința (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Covasna
Coordinates : 45 ° 57 '  N , 26 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 56 '35 "  N , 26 ° 13' 53"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 600  m
Area : 110.00  km²
Residents : 4,815 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 44 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 527090
Telephone code : (+40) 02 67
License plate : CV
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Ghelința, Harale
Mayor : Iosif Cseh ( PCM-MPP )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 345
loc. Ghelința, jud. Covasna, RO-527090
Website :

Ghelința [ ˈɟelint͡sa ] ( German  Gelentz , Hungarian Gelence ) is a municipality in the Covasna district , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of Ghelința commune in Covasna county

The municipality Ghelința is located in the western foothills of the Vrancea Mountains (Munții Vrancei) - part of the Eastern Carpathians - and east of the Kronstadt Depression (Depresiunea Brașovului) in the so-called Szeklerland . In the east of the Covasna district on the stream of the same name, a tributary of the Râul Negru and the district road (Drum județean) DJ 121F, the place Ghelința is located 15 kilometers north of the small town of Covasna and about 38 kilometers east of the district capital Sfântu Gheorghe ( Sankt Georgen ) .

The nearest train station on the Brașov – Sfântu Gheorghe – Târgu Secuiesc line is in Imeni , five kilometers away , the incorporated village of the neighboring municipality of Catalina .

history

The place Ghelința, mostly inhabited by Szeklern people, was first mentioned in 1539 or 1567 according to different sources.

An archaeological find in the unincorporated village Harale (Hungarian Haraly ) was the Early Bronze Age allocated and kept in a museum of the county town Sfântu Gheorghe.

At the time of the Kingdom of Hungary Ghelinta belonged to the chair district Orbai in the County Háromszék ( Romanian Comitatul Trei-Scaune ). Subsequently Ghelin Anschließenda belonged to the historical district Trei-Scaune (German three chairs ) and from 1950 to today's district Covasna.

Oil has been produced on the Ghelința area since 1960.

population

The population of Ghelința municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 2,846 53 2,661 - 132
1920 3,781 148 3,558 12 63
1941 4.152 4th 3,927 1 220
1992 4,654 60 4,592 2 -
2002 4,774 64 4,702 - 8th
2011 4,815 59 4,551 - 205

The highest number of inhabitants has been recorded in the area of ​​Ghelința since 1850 and that of the Magyars in 2002. The highest number of Romanians (168) was registered in 1930, that of Roma (260) in 1956 and that of Romanian Germans (44) in 1910. At the beginning of the 20th century, Slovaks (38) were also registered in the municipality.

Attractions

  • In the community center the Roman Catholic Church Sf. Emeric built in the 13th century, rebuilt in the 18th and according to the list of historical monuments of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Ministerul Culturii și Patrimoniului Național) it is a listed building. The church is the oldest church in Háromszék county. The chancel was rebuilt in the 16th century in the Gothic style; the frescoes on the north wall of the nave date from the 14th century. The collapsed vaulted ceiling was replaced in 1628 with a coffered ceiling with 103 fields, each 85 x 77 cm. In some of the fields you can see the names of the donors or different coats of arms such as that of Brașov (Kronstadt) and other numerous representations such as the one with St. George fighting the dragon. The gallery, which was built in 1766, was dismantled in the course of the renovations in 1972 in order to make the wall paintings with the scenes from the life of Ladislaus I more visible. The church's two bells date from 1617 and 1763.
  • In the community center the country house of the Hungarian noble family Jancsó built in 1727, renovated between 1848 and 1850, is a listed building.
  • A German military cemetery has been in Ghelința since 1916.

  • Roman Catholic Church in Ghelința

  • Interior of the church

  • Roman Catholic Church in Harale

Sons and daughters

Town twinning

Ghelința is twinning with the Hungarian towns of Dunaszentgyörgy , Nagybánhegyes , Balatongyörök , Encs and Várvölgy .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB).
  2. ↑ Information on the website of the Ghelința municipality accessed on February 27, 2020 (Romanian).
  3. ↑ a b c d Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  4. ↑ Institute Of Archeology - Harale , accessed on 27 February 2020 (Romanian).
  5. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian).
  6. ↑ Information on the Roman Catholic Church in Ghelința at biserici.org, accessed on March 2, 2020 (Romanian).
  7. ↑ a b List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture , updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian).
  8. ↑ 360 ° view of the interior of the church
  9. ↑ Attila István Szekeres (ed.): Patrimoniul heraldic al judeţului Covasna . Tinta, Covasna 2015, ISBN 978-6-06940191-0 , pp. 92, 93 . Digitized
  10. ↑ Information on Benedek Jancsó at mek.oszk.hu, accessed on March 2, 2020 (Hungarian)
  11. ↑ Information on the website of the Ghelința municipality , accessed on March 1, 2020 (Romanian)