Horea (Alba)

Horea
Arada

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Alba

Coordinates :

46 ° 30 ' N , 22 ° 57' E Coordinates: 46 ° 30 '0 " N , 22 ° 56' 57" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

711 m

Area :

60.41 km²

Residents :

2,143 (2011)

Population density :

35 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

517340

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 58

License plate :

FROM

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

local community

Structure :

Horea, Baba , Buteşti , Dârleşti , Fericet , Giurgiuț , Mănceşti , Mătişeşti , Niculeşti , Pătruşeşti , Petreasa , Preluca , Teiu , Trifeşti , Zânzeşti

Mayor :

Corneliu Olar ( PNL )

Postal address :

Valea Arăzii, no. 2
loc. Horea, jud. Alba, RO-517340

Website :

www.horea.ro

Others

City Festival :

In August, Ziua lemnarului ("Carpenter's Day")

Horea (outdated Arada also Gura-Aradi ; Hungarian Arada ) is a Romanian community in the Alba district in Transylvania .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Horea in the Alba district

The place Horea is on the upper reaches of the Arada River and the county road (Drum județean) DJ 108, in the north of the Alba county. In the Motzenland between the foothills of the mountains, Bihor in the west and the Muntele Mare in the east, the municipality with its 14 smaller villages and hamlets extends over an area of 6,041 hectares in a mountainous landscape. It is 25 kilometers to the next larger town of Câmpeni ; the district capital Alba Iulia is about 100 kilometers to the southeast.

history

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1733 or 1839 under the name Arada as a village of the large municipality of Râul Mare . According to various sources, until 1924 or 1932 the village belonged to Râul Mare , which is today's municipality of Albac . In honor of Vasile Ursu Nicola called Horea - the leader of the peasant uprising of 1784 - the place was renamed Horea in 1968 .

Horea - a skilled builder of wooden structures - built his house on Mount Dealu Feticetului , where it stood until the First World War. The massive entrance door made of oak beams is kept in the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu. A memorial was erected in place of his house, and not far from it is an ash tree that has been declared a natural monument.

The residents live mainly from wood processing and cattle breeding.

population

At the first census of the place (1930), 3460 inhabitants were counted; 3446 Romanians and 14 Roma . In the area of the municipality, the censuses were not carried out regularly until 1956. In 1956, of the 3799 people registered in the municipality, 3775 were Romanians and 24 were Roma. In 2002, of the 2371 inhabitants - Romanians in all villages (2352 in total) with the exception of Horea - 19 Roma were counted.

Attractions

The Romanian Orthodox Church Sf. Arhangheli , erected in 1842.
Bust of Vasile Ursu Nicola called Horea (1731–1785), - a Romanian-Transylvanian insurgent, born in Horea - was unveiled on the 223rd anniversary of his death on February 27, 2008.
Old farms with their houses and stables, in the Motzenland style .