Hârlău

Hârlău Harlo
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	West Moldova
Circle :	Iași
Coordinates :	47 ° 26 '  N , 26 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '43 "  N , 26 ° 53' 41"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	180  m
Area :	40.36  km²
Residents :	10,905 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	270 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	705100
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 32
License plate :	IS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	city
Structure :	1 District / cadastral municipality: Pârcovaci
Mayor :	Gheorghiță Curcă ( PSD )
Postal address :	Str. Mușatini, no. 5 loc. Hârlău, jud. Iași, RO-705100
Website :	www.primaria-hirlau.ro

Hârlău ([ hɨrləu ]; pronunciation ^{? / I} ; Hungarian Harlo ) is a town in Iaşi County in the West of Moldova in Romania .

location

Hârlău is located in the west of the Moldau Plain ( Câmpia Moldovei ). The district capital of Iași is located about 60 km southeast of Hârlău.

history

The first written mention was made in 1384 when a palace of the mother of the Moldovan ruler Petru I was described. At the end of the 15th century, Hârlău became the residence of Prince Ștefan cel Mare . He had the palace renewed in 1486 and the St. George's Church built in 1492, the first building in the region with an exterior painting. On July 12, 1499, the peace treaty between Ștefan cel Mare and the Polish King John I Albrecht was concluded in Hârlău . Stefan IV of Moldova , the grandson of the great voivode , concluded a peace and assistance agreement with King Sigismund I of Poland on May 4, 1518 .

At the beginning of the 17th century - under the rule of Radu Mihnea - the place again became a royal residence. After that, the importance of Hârlău decreased.

As a result, Hârlău became a center of Jewish life in Moldova. At the end of the 18th century there was an economic boom; a glass and a paper factory were built. In 1831 there was a peasant uprising. As recently as 1913, the Jews provided almost all craftsmen and all traders in Hârlău. In the autumn of 1940 - before the attack on the Soviet Union - German troops camped in the city. At the same time Marshal Ion Antonescu and the fascist Iron Guard were in power in Romania ; so began a persecution of the Jews by the Romanian authorities. Some were taken to Bessarabia for forced labor . A deportation, presumably planned by German military units, was prevented in early 1944 by the rapidly advancing front. Almost all Jews emigrated after the war. In 1968 Hârlău was declared a city. The most important branches of industry are agriculture (including viticulture and fruit growing), the food and textile industry and wood processing.

population

In 1886 there were about 4,000 inhabitants in Hârlău, of whom 2,718 identified themselves as Jews. Half of the Jews emigrated to America in 1899 and 1900. The number of Jews in the village remained almost unchanged, however, because Jews moved from neighboring villages. However , the relative composition shifted due to increased immigration of Romanians . After the Second World War (1948), 1936 of the 4,172 inhabitants were still Jews. At the 2002 census, 11,268 people lived in the city, 7807 of them in the city proper and 3461 in the incorporated village of Pârcovaci . 10,761 were Romanians, 484 Roma and only 10 Jews.

traffic

Hârlău is the end point of a railway line leading from Iași. There are currently (2009) around four local trains running there daily. The European route 58 runs through the city . There are regular bus connections to Iași.

Attractions

• Sfântu Gheorghe Church (1492)
• Ruins of the Prince's Palace (14th century)
• Ethnographic and historical museum
• Great Synagogue (Hârlău)
• Jewish Cemetery

Personalities

• Carol Iancu (* 1946), Jewish-Romanian-French historian

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
2. ↑ Ion Ionascu, Dr. Petre Bărbulescu, Gheorghe Gheorghe: "Tratatele internaționale ale României, 1354-1920: texte rezumate, adnotări, bibliografie", Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, Bucharest 1975, pp. 72, 499
3. ↑ www.hirlau.info, accessed on January 8, 2009
4. ↑ ^{a b} www.jewishgen.org, accessed January 8, 2009
5. ↑ 2002 census, accessed January 8, 2008
6. ↑ Information on Carol Iancu from bibliomonde.com accessed on February 9, 2014 (French)