Grebenișu de Câmpie

Grebenișu de Câmpie Gerbesch Mezőgerebenes
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Transylvania
Circle :	Mureș
Coordinates :	46 ° 36 '  N , 24 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 36 '26 "  N , 24 ° 18' 9"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	443  m
Area :	28.03  km²
Residents :	1,684 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	60 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	547290
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 65
License plate :	MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Grebenișu de Câmpie, Leorința , Valea Sânpetrului
Mayor :	Ștefan Gojman ( PSD )
Postal address :	Str. Principală nr. 15 loc. Grebenișu de Câmpie, jud. Mureș, RO-547290

Grebenișu de Câmpie old spelling Grebenișu de Cîmpie [ grebeˈniʃu de ˈkɨmpie ] (outdated Gerebeniș ; German  Gerbesch , Hungarian Mezőgerebenes or also Gerebenes ) is a municipality in the Mureș district , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the Grebenișu de Câmpie municipality in the Mureș County

The municipality of Grebenișu de Câmpie is located in the Transylvanian Heath (Câmpia Transilvaniei) - part of the Transylvanian Basin - in the west of the Mureș district. At the Bach Hârtoape and the county road (drum județean) DJ 151A, the place Grebenişu de Câmpie is about 30 kilometers northwest of the district capital Târgu Mureş (Neumarkt am Mieresch) .

history

The place Grebenișu de Câmpie was first mentioned in 1294 and has been inhabited by a majority of Romanians since the 15th century. Here in Gerebeniş is said to have been a wooden church and an Orthodox rectory in 1447 . Today's Orthodox Church Sfinții Arhangheli Mihail și Gavriil was built in 1901 and stands in the place of a wooden church that was built in 1750. The church was renovated between 1991 and 2001 and was rededicated on June 21, 2015.

In the Kingdom of Hungary , the place belonged to the Marosludas chair district in the Torda-Aranyos County, then to the historical Mureș County and from 1950 to the present Mureș County.

population

The population of the municipality of Grebenișu de Câmpie developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	866	773	13	-	80
1930	1,689	1,535	138	-	16
1977	2,064	1,769	40	5	250
2002	1,642	1,451	19th	-	172
2011	1,684	1,407	17th	-	260 (Roma 211)

The highest number of inhabitants (2,607) and that of the Romanians (2,516) in 1966 have been registered in the area of ​​today's municipality since 1850. The highest number of Magyars (172) was determined in 1910, Roma (250) in 1977 and that of Romanian Germans in 1977.

Web links

Commons : Grebenișu de Câmpie  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Grebenișu de Câmpie community at ghidulprimariilor.ro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
2. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
3. ↑ Rededication of the church "Sfinții Arhangheli Mihail și Gavriil" in Grebeniș, Mureș County. basilica.ro, June 22, 2015, accessed on January 16, 2019 (Romanian). 
4. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian)