Lancram
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Lancrăm Langendorf Lámkerék |
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 Romania
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| Historical region : | Transylvania | ||||
| Circle : | Alba | ||||
| Municipality : | Sebeș | ||||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 59 ' N , 23 ° 33' E | ||||
| Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | ||||
| Height : | 241 m | ||||
| Residents : | 1,468 (2002) | ||||
| Postal code : | 515801 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+40) 02 58 | ||||
| License plate : | FROM | ||||
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| Community type : | Village | ||||
Lancrăm ( German Langendorf , Hungarian Lámkerék and in the Transylvanian-Saxon dialect Lankenderf ) is a Romanian village in the Alba district in Transylvania . Today it is part of the city of Sebeş ( Mühlbach ).
location
The village of Lancrăm is located in the southwest of the Transylvanian Basin in the historical under forest . On the lower reaches of the Sebeş ( Mühlbach ) - a left tributary of the Mureş - and the European route 81 , the place is about two kilometers north of Sebeş; the district capital Alba Iulia ( Karlsburg ) is about 12 kilometers north of Lancrăm.
history
Lancrăm was first mentioned in a document in 1309 and was a free village of the Transylvanian Saxons in the Middle Ages . However, the history of settlement in the region goes back to the Neolithic Age , according to reports by M. Wosinsky about archaeological finds of ceramic fragments . Furthermore, according to information from M. Csáki, some golden objects were found in the area of Lancrăm, which were subsequently cut up. According to JM Ackner , C. Gooss and P. Király, a Roman road ran across an area called "câmpia Ruzgă" ( Rosenfeld ) by the locals in the direction of Vințu de Jos ( Unterwintz ) .
At the end of the 18th and 19th centuries, Lancrăm was a center of icons - stained glass by the Costea family . The genealogy of the alleged painter family Costea cannot be confirmed with certainty.
Until 1919 the place belonged to Hungary and carried the Hungarian name Lámkerék .
population
At the census of 1850, 1248 people lived in the area of today's village. 1232 of them were Romanians , four Germans and 12 Roma . The highest number of inhabitants (1783) - both Romanians (1755) and Hungarians (25) - was reached in 1900. The highest number of Germans (12) was determined in 1966 and that of Roma (14) in 1977. In 2002 Lancrăm registered 1,468 people, 1,458 of whom were Romanians, five Hungarians and five Roma.
Attractions
- Casa Memorială "Lucian Blaga" , birthplace of Lucian Blaga, set up in 1998 as a memorial house.
- The Râpa Roșie nature reserve ( 45 ° 59 ′ N , 23 ° 35 ′ E , German Red Mountain ) is located about three kilometers (as the crow flies) east of Lancrăm. The area consists of deposits of red clay, gray and red sandstone, white loose sandstone, red to brick-colored marl rock and limestone marl.
Personalities
- Lucian Blaga (1895–1961) was a philosopher, journalist and diplomat. He is buried here. His monument made by Romul Ladea stands in front of the local cemetery .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dictionary of localities from Transylvania
- ^ Institute Of Archeology - Lancrăm, accessed February 11, 2011 (Romanian)
- ↑ Ioana Purcar Rustoiu: Information on the genealogy of the icon painters from Lancrăm, accessed on February 11, 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Romanian; PDF; 890 kB)
- ↑ Census, last updated October 30, 2008, p. 12 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.2 MB)
- ↑ Lucian Blaga Memorial House, at www.alba.djc.ro, accessed on February 11, 2011 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Romanian)
- ↑ Râpa Roșie's website ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft-Verlag, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
