Grăniceri (Arad)
Grăniceri Ottlaka Ottlaka |
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Romania | |||
Historical region : | Screeching area | |||
Circle : | Arad | |||
Coordinates : | 46 ° 31 ' N , 21 ° 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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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 | 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 | |||||||
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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
- Max Herz (1856–1919), architect
Web links
- graniceri.ro , Grăniceri
- virtualarad.net , Grăniceri
- ghidulprimariilor.ro , Grăniceri Citizens' Office
Individual evidence
- ↑ citypopulation.de , census October 20, 2011
- ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
- ↑ fatornyosfalunk.com , András János: History of the Transylvanian towns
- ↑ a b graniceri.ro , Grăniceri
- ^ Ungarndeutsche.de , genealogy
- ↑ adevarul.ro , border crossing Grăniceri-Elek
- ↑ kia.hu , E. Varga: Statistics of the population by ethnic group in the Arad district according to censuses from 1880 - 2002
- ↑ islamic-art.org , Max Herz
- ↑ ifao.egnet.net , Max Herz Pasha. His Life and Career.
- ↑ cairobserver.com , Max Herz Pasha. The man who saved Cairo.
- ↑ bjt2006.org , Herz Pasha of Temesvár and Egypt ... and the Jews.