Hoghiz

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Hoghiz
hot water
Héviz
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Hoghiz (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Brașov
Coordinates : 45 ° 59 '  N , 25 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 59 '10 "  N , 25 ° 18' 35"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 479  m
Area : 174.16  km²
Residents : 5,025 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 29 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 507095
Telephone code : (+40) 02 68
License plate : BV
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Hoghiz, Bogata Olteană , Cuciulata , Dopca , Fântâna , Lupșa
Mayor : Ion Șerban ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. Făgărașului, no. 161
loc. Hoghiz, jud. Brașov, RO-507095

Hoghiz [ ˈhogis ] ( German  warm water , Hungarian Héviz ) is a municipality in the Brașov district in Transylvania , Romania .

The place Hoghiz is also known under the German name Warmbrunn and the Hungarian Olthéviz .

Geographical location

Location of Hoghiz in Brașov County

The municipality of Hoghiz is located in the southeast of the Transylvanian Basin, west of the Perșani Mountains . The town of Hoghiz is located seven kilometers south of the small town of Rupea ( Reps ) on the Olt River ( Alt ) and the European route 60 , and the district capital Brașov ( Kronstadt ) is about 60 kilometers south-east.

On the area of ​​the municipality there are mineral water springs and in the southeast of the Pădurea Bogății Forest ( Spirit Forest ), a nature reserve in Romania .

The nearest train station is in the small town of Rupea on the Teiuș – Brașov railway , about three and a half kilometers from Hoghiz.

history

Hoghiz was first mentioned in a document in 1235 and, with Kalnoky Castle, Haller Castle and Valenta Castle, was of strategic importance in the west of the Perșani Mountains in the Middle Ages. However, the history of settlement in the region goes back much further. About one kilometer to the west of Hoghiz - called La Cetate by the locals - on the left bank of the Olt are the ruins of a castle that point to Roman times .

In the Kingdom of Hungary , the municipality was in the Kőhalom (today Rupea ) district in Groß-Kokelburg County , then in the Târnava-Mare district and from 1950 in what is now the Brașov district.

population

The 1850 census counted 3427 people in the area of ​​the municipality of Hoghiz. 2024 were Romanians , 1156 Magyars , 143 Roma , 61 were Romanian Germans and 42 described themselves as Jews . The highest population of the municipality (5057) and that of the Romanians (3025) was reached in 1992; that of the Magyars (1731) in 1977, that of the Roma (443) in 1956 and that of the Romanian Germans in 1850. Ukrainians , Serbs and Slovaks were also registered. In 2011 there were 5025 people in the municipality of Hoghiz. 3324 were Romanians, 1344 Magyars, 185 Roma, four Romanian Germans and the rest gave no information about their ethnicity.

Attractions

  • Kalnoky Castle, built in the 13th century and renovated in the 16th, is a listed building.
  • Haller Castle, built in the 16th century and renovated in the 19th, where the town's school is located today, is a listed building.
  • Guthman-Valenta Castle, built in 1553 and renovated in the 18th century, is a listed building.
  • The reformed church , built in 1749, is a listed building.
  • The older Romanian Orthodox Church
  • On the area of ​​the incorporated village of Dopca ( Daken ) are the nature reserves Cheile Dopca (gorge), the Microcanionul în bazalt de la Hoghiz and the Cotul Turzunului meander, a loop of the Olt river with a diameter of nine kilometers .
  • In the incorporated village of Cuciulata ( Katscheloden ) several properties as well as the wooden church Cuvioasa Paraschiva are under monument protection.

  • reformed Church

  • Haller Castle

  • View of Hoghiz

  • Wooden church in Cuciulata

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ^ Franz Raffelsberger: General geographic-statistical lexicon of all Austrian states , Vienna 1854.
  3. ↑ a b c Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
  4. ↑ Official German-speaking name according to Romanian government resolution 1415 of December 6, 2002 ( Official Gazette ( Memento of the original of September 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lege5.ro
  5. ↑ a b c d e f List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)
  6. ↑ Census, last updated November 1, 2008 (Hungarian; PDF; 521 kB)
  7. ↑ information on the church in Hoghiz at biserici.org accessed on April 24, 2016 (Romanian)
  8. ↑ information on the church in Hoghiz at biserici.org accessed on April 24, 2016 (Romanian)