Mărgău

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Mărgău
Meregyó
Mărgău coat of arms
Mărgău (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Cluj
Coordinates : 46 ° 45 '  N , 22 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 45 '13 "  N , 22 ° 57' 28"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 762  m
Area : 211.67  km²
Residents : 1,484 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 7 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 407380
Telephone code : (+40) 02 64
License plate : CJ
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Mărgău, Bociu , Buteni , Ciuleni , Răchițele , Scrind-Frăsinet
Mayor : Petru Ungur ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 204
loc. Mărgău, jud. Cluj, RO-407380
Website :

Mărgău [ mərˈgəu ] ( Hungarian Meregyó ) is a municipality in Cluj County in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Mărgău in Cluj County

The municipality of Mărgău is located in the Vlădeasa Mountains (Munții Vlădeasa) , a mountain range of the Apuseni Mountains (Munții Apuseni) . The six villages and hamlets of the municipality, of which the incorporated village of Răchițele (Hungarian Havasrekettye ) is the highest village in the municipality at 863  m , lie on a total area of ​​about 21,000 hectares. On the brook Mărgăuța and on the county road (Drum județean) DJ 108C, the place Mărgău is 15 kilometers south of the small town of Huedin (Heynod) and about 65 kilometers west of the district capital of Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) .

history

The place Mărgău was first mentioned in 1340. Around 1340 ancestors of the Romanian pastor Ion Ungur ( Andrei ) settled 32 families from Beiuș here and about 100 years later a Romanian voivode had his residence here, whose descendants were ennobled under the names Vajda and Meregyói . In the 15th century the village to the castle belonged Bologa ( ⊙ in the same village the church today -) Poieni - in the stool District Bánffyhunyad in the County Cluj , then the historic district of Cluj and from 1950 to today's Cluj County at.

An earth wall on the area of ​​the incorporated village of Ciuleni (near Cetățuie ) from an age that has not yet been assigned indicates an earlier settlement of the region .

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 3,246 3,217 13 - 16
1930 6,724 6,182 239 56 247
1977 3,704 3,703 - - 1
2002 1,869 1,862 5 - 2
2011 1,484 1,430 6th - 48

Since 1850 the highest number of inhabitants and also that of the Romanians, the Magyars, the Romanian Germans and the Roma (27) were determined in 1930 in the area of ​​today's municipality .

Attractions

  • In the incorporated village of Ciuleni (Hungarian Incsel ; the last village in the valley of the Călata stream) the wooden church Adormirea Maicii Domnului , built in 1747 and rebuilt in 1859, is a listed building.
  • The Sfinții Arhangheli Mihail și Gavriil Church in Mărgău. The construction of the church began in 1803 after a previous destruction on the initiative of the dean Daniel Ungur . After his death in 1804 he was buried at the place where the altar of the church, which was completed in 1835, stands. The stone cross from the dean's tomb is attached to the outer wall of the altar.
  • The community is also the starting point for the protected caves Piatra Ponorului and the Vârfurașu (2250 meters long, at a height of 1236  m ).

  • Wooden church in Ciuleni

  • Church in Mărgău

  • Church in Răchițele

  • Church in Scrind-Frăsinet

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Website of the municipality Margau: Prezentare generală. Archived from the original on June 17, 2016 ; Retrieved November 11, 2017 (Romanian).
  3. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  4. ↑ Institute Of Archeology: Ciuleni. cimec.ro, accessed November 11, 2017 (Romanian).
  5. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (Hungarian; PDF; 1 MB;)
  6. ↑ BISERICI.org: Biserica Adormirea Maicii Domnului, Ciuleni. biserici.org, accessed November 11, 2017 (Romanian).
  7. ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian)
  8. ↑ BISERICI.org: Biserica Sf. Arhangheli, Mărgău. biserici.org, accessed November 15, 2017 (Romanian).
  9. ↑ Website of the municipality Margau: Istoricul localităţii. Archived from the original on June 17, 2016 ; Retrieved November 15, 2017 (Romanian).
  10. ↑ Website of the municipality Margau: Turism. Archived from the original on June 17, 2016 ; Retrieved November 11, 2017 (Romanian).