Kronstadt county

Kronstadt County (Brassó) (1910)
Administrative headquarters :	Kronstadt
Area :	3,337 km²
Population :	101.199
Ethnic groups :	29% Germans 35% Romanians 35% Hungarians 1% others

The Kronstadt County ( Hungarian Brassó vármegye , Romanian Comitatul Brașov ) was an administrative unit ( county or county ) of the Kingdom of Hungary . Today the area is in Transylvania in Romania .

location

Map of the Kronstadt county around 1890

It bordered on the counties Groß-Kokelburg (Nagy-Küküllő) , Háromszék , Fogaras and in the south on the Kingdom of Romania .

The German name is derived from the main town of the county - Kronstadt (now Brașov ).

geography

The county is quite flat in the north, the so-called Burzenland , but very mountainous in the south ( Bucegi Mountains , Piatra Mare Mountains ). The Alt (now Romanian Olt ) flows through the country and, together with its tributaries, creates a very fertile land. Of all the counties in eastern Hungary, Kronstadt was the economically strongest area.

history

The Kronstadt County was established in 1876 when the Kronstadt district , which previously existed in the Grand Duchy of Transylvania , was dissolved and the borders were redefined.

After the end of the First World War in 1918, the area came to Greater Romania as a result of the Treaty of Trianon and initially continued to exist here as a Jewț (district) Brașov. After an administrative reform in 1950, the area belonged to the Brașov region and, after the return to the principle of the Jews, also became part of the present Brașov district .

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
Alvidék ("Unterland")	Földvár, today Feldioara
Felvidék ("Oberland")	Brassó, today Brașov , previously Feketehalom, today Codlea
Hétfalus ("Seven Villages")	Hosszúfalu / Satulung, today part of Săcele
City district (rendezett tanácsú város)
Brassó, today Brașov

All places are in today's Romania .

See also

• List of historical counties of Hungary

literature

• Kronstadt . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 10, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 252–253.

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)