Hațeg

Hațeg is located in the center of a valley basin through which the river Strei (German Strell ) flows, which geomorphologically bears the name Depresiunea Hațeg , which corresponds to the historical region Hatzeger Land (also Wallenthal, Romanian Țara Hațegului ). In the east of the city are the Șureanu , in the south the Retezat and in the west the Țarcu mountains . The district capital Deva is located about 30 km north of Hațeg.

history

Hațeg was first mentioned in 1276 in a document from the Hungarian King Béla IV . In 1366 it became an administrative center with a royal court and received the status of a town, from 1764 Hațeg became the seat of a border company that consisted mainly of Romanian soldiers. Until 1918 it belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary , the Principality of Transylvania and Austria-Hungary . Until the end of the First World War , the city was the seat of a chair district in the Hungarian county of Hunyad . Then the city - which had been inhabited mainly by Romanians for several centuries - came to Romania. Ha wichtigsteneg's main industries are logging, beer production and the generation of energy from hydropower.

population

In 1850, 2578 inhabitants were registered in the area of today's town, of which 1194 lived in Hațeg, the remaining 1384 in the villages that are now incorporated. 2197 were Romanians, 174 Roma , 97 Hungarians and 59 Germans . In the - albeit controversial - census in 1910 the population had risen to 4884, of which 3176 identified themselves as Romanians, 1509 as Hungarians and 143 as Germans. At that time, 3124 people lived in Hațeg itself. The population continued to grow by 1992 (11,616). At the 2002 census, 10,910 people lived in Hațeg, 9,710 of them in the city proper and 1,200 in the cadastral communities. 10,468 identified themselves as Romanians, 303 as Hungarians, 67 as Roma and 33 as Germans.

traffic

Hațeg is on the Caransebeş – Bouțari – Subcetate railway , which only serves freight traffic from here to Subcetate . The section in the direction of Sarmizegetusa was closed in 1995. There are regular bus connections to Petroșani and Hunedoara . The European route 79 runs through the city .

Attractions

Prislop Monastery (14th century) in the Silvașu de Sus district
European bison reserve

Hațeg Geopark

Others

Hațeg is the namesake for the pterosaur Hatzegopteryx , the fossil remains of which were first found in 1978 near the city.

Web links

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

Information about the Hațeger Geopark at globalgeopark.org (English)

Individual evidence

↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft-Verlag, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
↑ Censuses in Transylvania 1850–2002 (Hungarian) (PDF; 1.1 MB)

[1] 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de

[2] Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft-Verlag, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .

[3] Censuses in Transylvania 1850–2002 (Hungarian) (PDF; 1.1 MB)