Lunca (Mureș)

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Lunca
Traßten
Tekeújfalva
Coat of arms of Lunca (Mureș)
Lunca (Mureș) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Mureș
Coordinates : 46 ° 51 '  N , 24 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 50 '59 "  N , 24 ° 34' 31"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 400  m
Area : 85.20  km²
Residents : 2,625 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 31 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 547375
Telephone code : (+40) 02 65
License plate : MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Lunca, Băița , Frunzeni , Logig , Sântu
Mayor : Teodor Vultur ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. Principală nr. 228
loc. Lunca, jud. Mureș, RO-547375
Website :

Lunca (outdated Uifalău or Vaidei ; German  Traßten , Hungarian Tekeújfalva ) is a municipality in the Mureș County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

The place Lunca is also known under the Hungarian names Oláhújfalu , Újfalu and Oláhfalu , and the German new town.

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Lunca in Mureș County

The municipality of Lunca is located in the Transylvanian Heath (Câmpia Transilvaniei) , part of the Transylvanian Basin . On the stream of the same name and the Drum național 15A , the town of Lunca is 14 kilometers northwest of the city of Reghin (Saxon rain) and about 45 kilometers north of the district capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) .

history

The place Lunca was first mentioned in 1319 and was a Transylvanian-Saxon village in the Middle Ages .

Finds of a necropolis from the Hallstatt period on the area of ​​the incorporated village of Băița (Ginsdorf) , on the area known by the locals as La Jie , indicate that the area was settled .

In the Kingdom of Hungary , the place belonged to the Teke district in the Cluj County , then to the historical Mureș County and, from 1950, the Mureș County of today.

population

The population of the municipality of Lunca developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 2,938 2,429 246 195 68
1930 3,760 3,336 248 120 56
1956 4,283 3,872 228 117 66
2002 2,851 2,699 67 39 46
2011 2,625 2,464 60 24 77

The highest number of inhabitants has been registered in the area of ​​today's municipality since 1850 and that of the Romanians in 1956. The highest number of Magyars (345) was determined in 1910, that of Romanian Germans in 1850 and that of Roma (65) in 1956.

Attractions

  • In the incorporated village of Băița, the wooden church Sfinții Arhangheli Mihail și Gavriil , the bell tower and the wooden gate to the church, all built in 1723, are listed.
  • In the incorporated village of Logig (Ludwigsdorf) , the country house of the Hungarian aristocratic Bornemisza family built in the 18th century and the properties in Hauptstraße (Str. Principală) No. 10, 15 and 265 built in the 19th century, are listed as historical monuments.

  • Wooden church in Băița

  • Gate of the church in Băița

  • Wooden tower in Băița

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Arcanum Kézikönyvtár: Historical-administrative book of place names of Transylvania, Banat and Partium. Retrieved March 4, 2019 (Hungarian).
  3. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  4. ↑ a b c List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian).
  5. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian).