Livezile (Alba)

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Livezile
Laßlenkirch
Úrháza
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Livezile (Alba) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Alba
Coordinates : 46 ° 21 '  N , 23 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 20 '50 "  N , 23 ° 38' 31"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 351  m
Area : 65.86  km²
Residents : 1,192 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 18 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 517390
Telephone code : (+40) 02 58
License plate : FROM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Livezile, Izvoarele , Poiana Aiudului , Vălișoara
Mayor : Horațiu-Nicolae Han ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 59
loc. Livezile, jud. Alba, RO-517390
Website :

Livezile (outdated Cacova ; German  Laßlenkirch , Hungarian Úrháza ) is a Romanian community in the Alba district in Transylvania .

The place is also known by the Romanian names Cacova Aiudului or Vlad and the Hungarian Vládháza or Kákova .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Livezile in the Alba district
Look at Livezile

Livezile is located in the north of the Alba County, east of the Trascău Mountains in western Transylvania. On the river Aiud and the district road ( Drum județean ) DJ 107M, the place is 9 kilometers northwest of Aiud ( Strasbourg am Mieresch ); the district capital Alba Iulia is about 38 kilometers south of Livezile.

history

Archaeological finds (from the Paleolithic ) in the Bozguta cave near the incorporated village of Vălișoara ( Agendorf ) show that the area of ​​the municipality was inhabited for a long time. According to reports by S. Fenichel , G. Téglás , I. Hampel u. a. other finds come from the Early Bronze Age .

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1733 under the name Kákova . Since 1964 the place has been called Livezile .

The main occupation of the population is cattle breeding, fruit growing and, because of the limestone in the area, lime kilns.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 2,325 2,311 - - 14th
1941 3,573 3,560 1 - 12
2002 1,526 1,506 6th - 14th
2011 1,192 1,156 5 - 31

The highest number of inhabitants in today's municipality - and at the same time the highest number of Romanians - was determined in 1941; that of the Hungarians (9) in 1956, that of the Roma (14) in 1850/2002. In the 1910 census, five Germans were registered once, and one Slovak in 2002 .

Attractions

  • The Romanian Orthodox Church Adormirea Maicii Domnului , built in 1611 and renovated in 1848, is a listed building.
  • The Ethnographic Village Museum, opened in 2006.
  • The monastery of Sfântul Ioan Botezătorul ("John the Baptist")
  • There are several tourist destinations in the Trascău Mountains in the vicinity of the municipality. For example, the nature reserve Cheile Valisoarei wherein unincorporated village Poiana Aiudului ( Birkenfeld ), the Bedeleu -Höhenzug ( 1227  m ) and the caves Huda lui papara and Poarta Zmeilor at Izvoarele (ung. Bedellő ).

Web links

Commons : Livezile  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
  3. ^ Dictionary of the localities in Transylvania
  4. ↑ History of Livezile on primarialivezile.ro, accessed on February 27, 2010
  5. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Livezile, accessed February 27, 2010 (Romanian)
  6. ↑ Livezile ( Memento from April 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Census, last updated October 30, 2008, p. 103 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.2 MB)
  8. ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)
  9. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft-Verlag, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .