Grăniceri (Arad)

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Grăniceri (Arad) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Screeching area
Circle : Arad
Coordinates : 46 ° 31 '  N , 21 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 31 '10 "  N , 21 ° 18' 18"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Area : 79.00  km²
Residents : 2,254 (2011)
Population density : 29 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 317140
Telephone code : (+40) 02 57
License plate : AR
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Mayor : Petru-Claudiu Bătrânuț ( PNL )
Postal address : Strada Principală No. 10
loc. Grăniceri, jud. Arad, RO-317140
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Location of Grăniceri in Arad County
Grăniceri on the Josephinische Landesaufnahme

Grăniceri (German: Ottlaka , Hungarian: Ottlaka ) is a municipality in the Arad district , in the Kreischgebiet , in western Romania .

Geographical location

Grăniceri is located in the Kreisch plain, on the border with Hungary , 61 km from the district capital Arad and 18 km from Chișineu-Criș .

Neighboring places

Békéscsaba Gyula Pilu
Elec Neighboring communities Chișineu-Criș
Lőkösháza Sânmartin Șiclău

history

The first written mention of the village Otlaca comes from the year 1438. Over the centuries, different spellings of the place name appeared: Olthlaka (1438), Othlaka (1453, 1499), Otlaka (1808), Ottiaka , Otlaka (1851), Ottlaka (1888), Ottlaka (1913), Otlaca (1909), Grăniceri (1920).

In 1453 the estate was owned by the Kecsri / Kekser family, in 1497 it became the property of the Miskey family and in 1519 it belonged to Georg Brandenburg . In 1520 Gall acquired Istvan Otlaka, in 1522 it belonged to the Galilar family and in 1560 the Kiszerjenyi family was the landlord of Otlaka. On a map from 1558 Marki Sandor noted Otlaca as a small village with 1–20 houses. At that time Artandy Coloman was landlord of Ottlaka, then Hagyuias Cristofor and finally Hocskay Stefan. In 1732 King Karl III. Otlaca to the Duke of Modena .

After the Peace of Karlowitz (1699), Arad and the Maroscher Land came under Austrian rule , while the Banat south of the Marosch remained under Turkish rule until the Peace of Passarowitz (1718) . Ottlaka is entered on the Josephine land survey of 1717 . In 1860 Germans from Elek were settled here. As a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867), the Arad region was annexed to the Kingdom of Hungary within the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy . The official place name was Ottlaka .

The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 resulted in the regulation of the border, whereby the place fell to the Kingdom of Romania . In 1920 the Ottlaka was given the place name Grăniceri. In 2017, the Grăniceri- Elek border crossing reopened after it had been closed in 1948.

Population development

census Ethnicity
year Residents Romanians Hungary German Other
1880 5990 5299 337 245 109
1910 6364 5748 235 312 69
1930 5902 5495 44 286 77
1977 3296 2999 23 116 158
1992 2462 2163 32 64 203
2002 2596 2329 34 40 193

Personalities

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ citypopulation.de , census October 20, 2011
  2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
  3. ↑ fatornyosfalunk.com , András János: History of the Transylvanian towns
  4. ↑ a b graniceri.ro , Grăniceri
  5. ^ Ungarndeutsche.de , genealogy
  6. ↑ adevarul.ro , border crossing Grăniceri-Elek
  7. ↑ kia.hu , E. Varga: Statistics of the population by ethnic group in the Arad district according to censuses from 1880 - 2002
  8. ↑ islamic-art.org , Max Herz
  9. ↑ ifao.egnet.net , Max Herz Pasha. His Life and Career.
  10. ↑ cairobserver.com , Max Herz Pasha. The man who saved Cairo.
  11. ↑ bjt2006.org , Herz Pasha of Temesvár and Egypt ... and the Jews.