Gorneşti

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Gorneşti
Kertzing
Gernyeszeg
Gorneşti does not have a coat of arms
Gornești (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Mureș
Coordinates : 46 ° 40 '  N , 24 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 40 '20 "  N , 24 ° 38' 39"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 343  m
Area : 85.17  km²
Residents : 5,577 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 65 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 547280
Telephone code : (+40) 02 65
License plate : MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Gornești, Iara de Mureș , Ilioara , Mura Mare , Mura Mică , Pădureni , Periș , Petrilaca de Mureș , Teleac
Mayor : Gyula Kolcsár ( UDMR )
Postal address : Str. Pricipală nr. 429
loc. Gorneşti, jud. Mureș, RO-547280
Website :

Gorneşti [ gorˈneʃtʲ ] (outdated Gernesig ; German  Kertzing , Hungarian Gernyeszeg ) is a municipality in the Mureş County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the Gorneşti municipality in Mureş County

The municipality of Gorneşti is located in the Mureş Valley in the Transylvanian Basin north of the Kokel Highlands (Podişul Târnavelor) . In the center of the Mureş am Mureş (Mieresch) district , the DN 15 national road and the Târgu Mureş – Gheorgheni railway line, Gorneşti is located 17 kilometers north of the district capital of Târgu Mureş (Neumarkt am Mieresch) .

history

The place Gorneşti, a place mostly inhabited by Magyars, was first mentioned in 1319. Settlement of the place is assigned to the Neolithic Age according to archaeological excavations . Numerous archaeological objects are dated from the Latène period to the Neolithic period.

In the incorporated village of Mura Mică (Klein-Sedresch) 187 coins, of which 132 were Thasitic coins, were found. These have been in a Budapest museum since 1903 . Also in the incorporated village of Pădureni (Scholten) finds from the Neolithic to the Iron Age were assigned. East of the incorporated village of Petrilaca de Mureș (Petershausen; Petersdorf) , on the area called Ciortos by the locals , in the directory of historical monuments of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Ministerul Culturii și Patrimoniului Național) there is a settlement in the Bronze Age of the Wietenberg culture assigned.

At the time of the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged to the chair district Régen alsó ("Unter-Regen") in the Maros-Torda County, then to the historical Mureș County and from 1950 to the present Mureș County.

population

The population of today's Gorneşti municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 4,786 1,297 3.151 5 333
1930 6,719 1,909 4,413 8th 389
1956 7,739 1,801 5,685 4th 249
2002 5,885 1,122 4,437 2 324
2011 5,577 1.005 3,912 2 658

Since 1850, the highest number of inhabitants in the area of ​​today's municipality was determined in 1956. The highest number of Magyars (5,695) was registered in 1941, Romanians in 1930, Roma (519) in 2011 and Romanian Germans (21) in 1910.

Attractions

  • In the community center, Teleki Castle, first mentioned in 1477 and rebuilt in Baroque style in 1770, and its park laid out in the 19th century, are listed as historical monuments. The castle has 52 rooms and 365 windows. In the park there are classical grotesque sandstone figures.
  • In the community center, the reformed church built in the 15th century and rebuilt several times, and the crypt in the church in which Mihály Teleki and his wife Judit Weér are buried, are listed as historical monuments.
  • The Orthodox Church of Sf. Arhangheli Mihail și Gavril in Gornești, was built in 1912 on the site of a crumbling wooden church .
  • In the incorporated village of Mura Mare (Gross-Sedresch; Himbeerdorf) two wooden churches, both built in the 17th century, are listed. The Sf. Arhangheli Mihail și Gavril and Sf. Nicolae Church is in good condition, while the Sf. Arhangheli Mihail și Gavril collapsed in the winter of 2008/09.
  • In the incorporated village of Periș (Birnbaum), the reformed church built in the 14th century and rebuilt several times is a listed building. The church was originally a Catholic then an Evangelical and now a Reformed Church. The wooden bell tower of the church, which is also a listed building, was brought here from Petelea (Birk) in 1768 .

  • Teleki Castle

  • Church in Gorneşti

  • Wooden church in Mura Mare

  • Crumbled wooden church in Mura Mare

  • Wooden church in Mura Mică

  • Church in Periș

  • Bell tower in Periș

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ a b c Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  3. ↑ Institute Of Archeology - Gornesti , accessed on September 24, 2019 (Romanian).
  4. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Mura Mică , accessed September 24, 2019 (Romanian).
  5. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Pădureni , accessed September 24, 2019 (Romanian).
  6. ↑ a b c d e List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture , updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian).
  7. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian).
  8. ↑ Information on the Reformed Church in Gorneşti at biserici.org, accessed on September 24, 2018 (Romanian).
  9. ↑ Teleki Mihály, Burials. (PDF; 12.9 MB) Retrieved September 24, 2019 (Hungarian).
  10. ↑ Information on the Orthodox Church in Gorneşti at biserici.org, accessed on September 24, 2018 (Romanian).
  11. ↑ Information on the wooden church in Mura Mare at biserici.org, accessed on September 24, 2018 (Romanian).
  12. ↑ Information on the collapsed wooden church in Mura Mare at biserici.org, accessed on September 24, 2018 (Romanian).
  13. ↑ Information on the church in Periș at biserici.org, accessed on September 24, 2018 (Romanian).
  14. ↑ Information on Sámuel Teleki, retrieved from mek.oszk.hu on September 9, 2019 (Hungarian).