Groß-Kokelburg county

Groß-Kokelburg County (Nagy-Küküllő) (1910)
Administrative headquarters :	Segesvár
Area :	3,337 km²
Population :	148,826
Ethnic groups :	42% Germans 41% Romanians 12.5% Hungarians 4.5% others

The Nagy-Küküllő County (German and County wholesale Kokel or rarely County Großkokeln ; Hungarian Nagy-Küküllő vármegye , Romanian Comitatul Târnava Mare ) was an administrative unit ( county , county ) of the Kingdom of Hungary . Today the area is in Transylvania in Romania .

Location and general

Map of Groß-Kokelburg County around 1890

It bordered on the counties of Klein-Kokelburg (Kis-Küküllő) , Udvarhely , Háromszék , Kronstadt (Brassó) , Fogaras , Hermannstadt (Szeben) and Unterweißburg (Alsó-Fehér) .

The German name is derived from the Kokelburg Castle (today Cetatea de Baltă ), which was the administrative center of the predecessor county in the Middle Ages, but it is named after the river Große Kokel flowing through the county .

geography

The entire county is very hilly due to its location in the south of the Transylvanian Basin and is traversed in the north by the Great Kokel (today Romanian Târnava Mare ) and in the south by the Alt (today Romanian Olt ). Because of the mild climate there was a flourishing agriculture in the county; Trade and handicrafts were also well developed.

Demographics

In the south of the county, along the border with Fogarasch county, the majority were German communities: Martinsberg , Gürteln , Margeln , Bekokten , Kleinschenk , Leblang , Rohrbach , Scharosch , Seligstadt and Deutsch-Tekesch . Today these belong partly to the Sibiu district (Martinsberg, Gürteln, Mergeln), partly to the Brașov district .

history

Map of Kokelburg County around 1770

Groß-Kokelburg County was established in 1876 when the Kokelburg County (Küküllő vármegye) , which previously existed in the Grand Duchy of Transylvania , was dissolved together with the Saxon chairs of Mediasch , Schäßburg , Reps , Leschkirch and Hermannstadt and split into the counties of Groß- and Klein-Kokelburg and Hermannstadt was divided.

After the end of the First World War, the area came under the Treaty of Trianon (1920) to Greater Romania and initially continued to exist as the district (Jude Kreis) Târnava-Mare . However, in the interwar period, the German communities along the border to the former Fagarash county (see above) were ceded to the majority Romanian Făgăraş district .

In 1950 an administrative reform took place in which the district became part of the Brașov region (Kronstadt). After returning to the division into circles (Județe), the territory of the former county was divided, with the west being assigned to Sibiu County , the south-east to Brașov County and the area around Sighișoara to Mureș County .

District subdivision

In the early 20th century, the county consisted of the following chair districts (named after the name of the administrative center):

Chair districts (járások)
Chair district	Administrative headquarters
Kőhalom	Kőhalom, today Rupea
Medgyes	Medgyes, now Mediaș
Nagysink	Nagysink, today Cincu
Segesvár	Segesvár, today Sighișoara
Szentágota	Szentágota, today Agnita
City districts (rendezett tanácsú városok)
Medgyes, now Mediaș
Segesvár, today Sighișoara

All places are in today's Romania .

See also

• List of historical counties of Hungary

literature

• Kokelburg . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 9, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 925.

Web links

• Entry in the Pallas Lexicon (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A magyar szent corona országainak 1910. évi népszámlálása . Budapest 1912, p. 12 ff.
2. ↑ A magyar szent corona országainak 1910. évi népszámlálása . Budapest 1912, p. 22 ff. (1910 census)