Jacodu

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Jacodu
Hungarian sack
Magyarzsákod
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Jacodu (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Mureș
Municipality : Vețca
Coordinates : 46 ° 20 '  N , 24 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 19 '40 "  N , 24 ° 49' 49"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 422  m
Residents : 294 (2002)
Postal code : 547641
Telephone code : (+40) 02 65
License plate : MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : Village
Mayor : Pál Fekete ( UDMR )

Jacodu ( German  Hungarian Sack , Hungarian Magyarzsákod ) is a village in Mureș County in Transylvania , Romania . It belongs to the Vețca municipality . This place is about 4 km away.

About 1.5 km away is the Romanian town of Jacu ( Oláhzsákod ), which belongs to the municipality of Albeşti and has only 6 permanent residents. For this reason, culturally and historically valuable building fabric is falling into disrepair. There is an Orthodox monastery here, which is dedicated to St. Nicholas . Its construction began on the site of a dilapidated Catholic church in the 1990s.

After Sighisoara there are about 12 km as the crow to the southwest, an unmarked trail to get there is almost 15 km long. Jacodu can be reached on the county road ( Drum județean ) DJ 134. In the area of ​​the village and coming from Vânători , the road is not paved. From the end of the village (towards the head of the valley), the road built at the beginning of the 20th century fell into disrepair, partly in a very poor condition and therefore only accessible by horse and cart.

Mostly Hungarians ( Szekler ) live in Jacodu . About 500 m away from the end of the village towards the head of the valley there is a settlement with around 120 Roma who live there in huts made of wood and clay. They live as day laborers, from trading horses and collecting herbs and berries for the medical industry (e.g. hawthorn).

In Jacodu as in the other two places in the municipality (besides Vețca also Sălașuri ) there are almost no jobs. Some residents commute to work in the towns outside the valley. Small-scale agriculture as well as gardens and domestic animals (poultry, sheep or goats, rabbits, occasionally cattle) ensure survival.

The place has two churches, one Catholic and one Unitarian. In front of the Catholic Church there are sculptures carved in the traditional Szekler style by the (still active) local artist János Deák.

  • View over Jacodu in direction NE, in the background the tower of the Catholic Church.

  • A means of transport that is already rare, but can still be found.

  • Small house on the edge of the village at the crossroads towards Jacu.

  • The village street in Jacu, lined with empty houses.

  • The old district of Jacodu, with the Unitarian Church and its cemetery (center left)

  • The monastery is dedicated to St. Nicholas.

  • The abandoned houses are falling into disrepair, valuable cultural and historical building fabric is lost.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Censuses from 1850 to 2002 (PDF; 1.1 MB)