Lunca Mureșului (Alba)

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Lunca Mureșului
Székelykocsárd
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Lunca Mureșului (Alba) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Alba
Coordinates : 46 ° 26 '  N , 23 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 25 '43 "  N , 23 ° 54' 14"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 291  m
Area : 31.21  km²
Residents : 2,404 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 77 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 517405
Telephone code : (+40) 02 58
License plate : FROM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Lunca Mureșului, Gura Arieșului
Mayor : Edit-Susana Csegezi ( UDMR )
Postal address : St. Gării, no. 303
loc. Lunca Mureșului, jud. Alba, RO-517405
Website :

Lunca Mureșului (outdated Cucerdea ; Hungarian Székelykocsárd or Kocsárd ) is a Romanian municipality in the district of Alba in the Transylvania region .

The place is also under the Romanian outdated names Cociard , Coceard and Cucerdea Secuiască ; known to the Hungarian Vasútállomása and Războieni néven .

Geographical location

Location of the Lunca Mureșului municipality in Alba County

Lunca Mureșului is located in the northeast of the Alba district, on the Grindu brook - a right tributary of the Mureș (Mieresch) - in western Transylvania, on the Alba Iulia – Târgu Mureș railway line . On the county road (Drum județean) DJ 107F, the place is 11 kilometers northeast of Ocna Mureș (Miereschhall) ; the district capital Alba Iulia is located about 55 kilometers southwest of Lunca Mureșului.

history

According to reports by G. Téglás , G. Nagy and B. Orbán , several archaeological objects and a settlement from Roman times - called "Fântâna de Piatră" (literally "stone fountain", Hungarian Kökut ) - have been found east of the place .

The place is a Szeklerdorf , and was mentioned for the first time in 1291 under the name Terra Kikhard .

At the time of the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged to the Felvinc chair district in the Torda-Aranyos County , then to the historical Turda district and from 1950 to the present-day Alba district.

The main occupations of the population are agriculture and livestock.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 1,631 807 635 - 189
1900 2.134 990 1,138 6th -
1977 2,821 1,702 1,042 - 77
2002 2,669 1,719 755 - 195
2011 2,404 1,458 596 - 350

The highest population of today's municipality was determined in 1977; that of the Romanians (1828) in 2002, that of the Hungarians (1259) in 1920, that of the Roma (281) in 2011. The highest number of Germans (9) was recorded in 1890 and 1910. In the 1880 censuses, two Serbs , a Slovak in 1890 and a Ukrainian in 1977 were recorded.

Attractions

  • Romanian Orthodox wooden church in Lunca Mureșului

  • Romanian Orthodox wooden church in Lunca Mureșului

  • Romanian Orthodox wooden church in Lunca Mureșului

  • Hungarian Reformed Church in Lunca Mureșului

Web links

Commons : Lunca Mureșului  - 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. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Lunca Mureșului, accessed March 6, 2010 (Romanian).
  5. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft-Verlag, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
  6. ^ Lunca Mureșului ( Memento of April 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Census, last updated October 30, 2008, p. 107 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.2 MB).
  8. ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB).