Câmpulung Moldovenesc
Câmpulung Moldovenesc Kimpolung Moldvahosszúmező |
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Romania | |||
Historical region : | Bucovina | |||
Circle : | Suceava | |||
Coordinates : | 47 ° 32 ' N , 25 ° 33' E | |||
Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | |||
Height : | 600 m | |||
Area : | 24 km² | |||
Residents : | 16,722 (October 20, 2011) | |||
Population density : | 697 inhabitants per km² | |||
Postal code : | 725100 | |||
Telephone code : | (+40) 02 30 | |||
License plate : | SV | |||
Structure and administration (as of 2016) | ||||
Community type : | Municipality | |||
Mayor : | Mihăiță Negură ( PNL ) | |||
Postal address : | Str. 22 Decembrie, no. 2 loc. Câmpulung Moldovenesc, jud. Suceava, RO-725100 |
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Câmpulung Moldovenesc (outdated spelling Cîmpulung Moldovenesc ; German Kimpolung or (more rarely) Kimpulung , Ukrainian Довге поле Dowhe Pole , Hungarian Moldvahosszúmező ) is a city in Suceava County in northern Romania .
location
The city lies on the Vltava and is in the southern part of the Bukovina , which belongs to Romania .
History and present
Kimpolung was first mentioned in documents in 1411. Since it was located in the northern part of the Principality of Moldova , the village fell to Austria in 1775 . After the founding of the crown land of Bukovina , Kimpolung acted as a district town.
With the defeat of Austria-Hungary in World War I , the city became part of Greater Romania . The northern part of Bukovina fell to the Soviet Union in the course of the Second World War . In the 1930 census, when the proportion of the German-speaking population had already fallen in favor of Romanian, 17.3% of the approximately 10,000 inhabitants of the city stated German, 12.4% Yiddish and 67.9% Romanian as their mother tongue.
The strong Jewish community of Kimpolung has almost disappeared as a result of the kidnappings and murders in Transnistria during the Second World War and the subsequent emigration.
Kimpolung was the seat of a district administration until the immediate post-war period. Today it is the fourth largest city in Suceava County with around 20,000 inhabitants. The city is home to a wood museum that is well known beyond the state's borders. It is located on the Dărmăneşti – Câmpulung Moldovenesc railway .
population
The 2002 census resulted in the following ethnic breakdown of the population:
- 98.31% (19,737) Romanians
- 0.59% (118) Romanian Germans
- 0.49% (96) Roma
- 0.28% (56) Ukrainians
- 0.17% (35) Hungary
- 0.16% members of other ethnic groups
Personalities
- Rabbi Moses Josef Rubin (1892–1980), Hasidic theologian in Romania and the USA , chief rabbi here from 1922 to 1940
- Zeno Einhorn (1899–1941), German-Jewish writer and doctor
- Alexander Spiegelblatt (1927–2013), Yiddish writer, living in Israel from 1964
- Monica Ghiuță (1940–2019), film and stage actress
- Anca Parghel (1957-2008), Romanian jazz singer
- Nicolae Istrate (* 1982), bobsledder
Twin cities
- Dąbrowa Górnicza ( Dombrowa ) in Poland , since 2004
Web links
- Data from the interwar period
- About the deportation of the Kimpolung Jews to Transnistria ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 78 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
- ↑ http://archive.org/stream/recensamntulgene02inst#page/114/mode/2up