Ighișu Nou
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Ighișu Nou Eibesdorf Szászivánfalva |
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 Romania
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| Historical region : | Transylvania | ||||
| Circle : | Sibiu | ||||
| Municipality : | Mediaș | ||||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 7 ' N , 24 ° 21' E | ||||
| Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | ||||
| Height : | 345 m | ||||
| Residents : | 1,440 (2002) | ||||
| Postal code : | 551001 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+40) 02 69 | ||||
| License plate : | SB | ||||
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| Community type : | Village | ||||
Ighișu Nou ( German Eibesdorf , Hungarian Szászivánfalva , Transylvanian-Saxon Ebesdref ) is a district of the city of Mediaș in Transylvania in the Sibiu district in Romania .
geography
Ighişu Nou is located at an altitude of 345 m above sea level on the Ighiş stream , a left tributary of the Târnava Mare (Great Kokel) in the wine country , six kilometers south of Mediaş and about 60 kilometers north of the district capital Sibiu .
history
The village Ighișu Nou was called Sächsisch-Eibesdorf ( Romanian Ighișul Săsesc or Ibisdorful Săsesc ), Transylvanian-Saxon Sauksesch-Ebesdref before 1925 .
The name Eibesdorf is derived from the yew tree . The place was first mentioned in a document in 1305, when several members of the counts of the Apa divided up their possessions, which also included Saxon-Eibesdorf. The name forms villa Isopsis , Ysyptellis , Josopfalwa , Ybisdorff and Hybysdorff also appear in documents .
The total area of the village on the former Königsboden is about 1500 hectares.
The church castle in Eibesdorf was built from 1420 to 1494. The castle complex on a plateau is one of the most picturesque in Transylvania. The bell tower is 34.5 m high. The small bell was cast in 1496, the middle one in 1556 and the large one in 1929. The mechanical organ with pedal has 13 registers (1775). The altarpiece "Jesus on the Cross" (1515) and two valuable gilded silver goblets date from the 15th and 16th centuries. Other buildings are the Protestant rectory (1624), the old Protestant school (1851), the new Protestant school (1895) and the Protestant parish hall (1913). There is still an old Greek Catholic Church (1747) and a new Orthodox Church (1881, expanded in 1965).
Main occupations are viticulture , agriculture, cattle breeding (bull breeding) and fruit growing. After the expropriation in 1945 , the local residents found work in the nearby Medias factories and with the natural gas probes in the Eibesdorf and Großprobstdorf area, so that the number of inhabitants hardly decreased until 1989 despite emigration. After 1989, resettlement to Germany increased. Most of the Eibesdorf Saxons have settled in Augsburg and the surrounding area, Wuppertal, Traunreut, Drabenderhöhe, Bietigheim, Sachsenheim and the like. a. Cities in Germany as well as in Austria and Kitchener in Canada .
Population development
The population developed as follows from 1850 to 2002:
| census | Ethnic composition | ||||
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| year | population | Romanians | Hungary | German | other |
| 1850 | 1.102 | 506 | 2 | 417 | 177 |
| 1920 | 1,149 | 566 | 7th | 575 | 1 |
| 1941 | 1,547 | 593 | 3 | 754 | 197 |
| 1977 | 1.927 | 950 | 13 | 737 | 227 |
| 1992 | 1,328 | 987 | 5 | 106 | 230 |
| 2002 | 1,440 | 1,181 | 14th | 24 | 221 |
Since 1850, Ighișu Nou had its highest population in 1977. The highest number of Romanians was reached in 2002, that of Romanian Germans in 1941, that of Roma (230) in 1992 and that of Magyars in 2002.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 582 kB; Hungarian)