Câmpulung Moldovenesc

Câmpulung Moldovenesc Kimpolung Moldvahosszúmező
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Bucovina
Circle :	Suceava
Coordinates :	47 ° 32 '  N , 25 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '51 "  N , 25 ° 33' 5"  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
Website :	www.campulungmoldovenesc.ro

Câmpulung Moldovenesc (outdated spelling Cîmpulung Moldovenesc ; German  Kimpolung or (more rarely) Kimpulung , Ukrainian Довге поле Dowhe Pole , Hungarian Moldvahosszúmező ) is a city in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

Câmpulung Moldovenesc

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

Commons : Câmpulung Moldovenesc  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 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

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
2. ↑ http://archive.org/stream/recensamntulgene02inst#page/114/mode/2up