Marpod

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Marpod
Márpod
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Marpod (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Sibiu
Coordinates : 45 ° 52 '  N , 24 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 52 '12 "  N , 24 ° 29' 44"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 452  m
Area : 41.91  km²
Residents : 1,017 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 24 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 557135
Telephone code : (+40) 02 69
License plate : SB
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Marpod, Ilimbav
Mayor : Sebastian-Toader Doctoș ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 327
loc. Marpod, jud. Sibiu, RO-557135
Website :

Marpod ( German  Marpod , Hungarian Márpod ) is a municipality in the Sibiu County , in Transylvania , Romania .

The place is also known under the German names Marpodt , Marpolden , Maierpod , Mayerpolden and Mariapad .

Geographical location

Location of Marpod in Sibiu County

The municipality of Marpod is located in the Harbachtal on the lower reaches of the stream of the same name - a left tributary of the Cibin ( Zibin ) - in the southwest of the Transylvanian Basin . In the historic Altland , in the east of the Sibiu district, the place Marpod is located on the county road ( drum județean ) DJ 105A about 23 kilometers southwest of the small town of Agnita ( Agnetheln ); the district capital Sibiu ( Hermannstadt ) is located about 32 kilometers southwest.

history

The place Marpod was first mentioned in 1349. In 1488 the first school in the fortified church is mentioned in a document, in 1823 the second school which has been used as today's town hall since 1908. A third school was built from 1905 to 1908 and a state school from 1930 to 1932.

At the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , the place belonged to the Újegyház chair district of the Sibiu County .

A natural gas production system has been in operation in the village of Ilimbav ( Illenbach or Eulenbach ) since 1961, and there are also underground natural gas storage facilities here.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 1,949 993 4th 903 49
1920 1,894 745 6th 1,140 3
1941 2,085 795 1 1,288 1
1956 2,028 1,074 1 953 -
1977 1,541 619 4th 852 66
1992 785 639 8th 59 79
2002 853 763 8th 22nd 60
2011 1,017 893 3 40 81 (47 Roma)

Since 1850 the highest number of inhabitants and at the same time that of the Romanian Germans in 1941 was determined in the area of ​​today's municipality. The highest number of Romanians was counted in 1956, that of Roma (85) in 1930, and that of Magyars (13) in 1930. Furthermore, a Slovak was registered in 1900 and a Serb in 1966 . From 1850 to 1941, almost five times as many Romanian Germans were registered as Romanians in every census in the town of Marpod itself. Before the revolution of 1989 there were 634 Romanian Germans living in the community, in September 1990 only 137 were registered.

Attractions

  • The Protestant fortified church with a Romanesque basilica and bell tower in a westerly direction, surrounded by a square defensive wall with two corner towers, is a listed building. The church was built on the foundations of an older church at the beginning of the 15th century and is surrounded by three defensive walls with four defensive towers. According to various sources, the church was rebuilt in the 16th century or 1670. The church organ was built in 1763 by the organ builder Johannes Hahn and restored several times, most recently in 1985. The bell tower was built between 1795 and 1798 and the clock tower was installed in 1799. The current tower clock was installed in 1973, the previous one is in the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu.
  • A 0.86 hectare theme park
  • The wooden church Buna Vestire , erected in 1852 in the incorporated village of Ilimbav (originally from the village of Nou Român in the municipality of Arpașu de Jos ), is a listed building.
  • The house built by Iacob Bologa (at No. 171) in the 19th century is a listed building.
  • A bison breed on 69 hectares with around 20 animals

  • Protestant church

  • View towards the altar of the Protestant church

  • Altar of the church

  • Church organ

  • Wooden church in Ilimbav

  • Natural gas production plant in Ilimbav

Town twinning

The municipality of Marpod has been twinned with the municipality of Québriac in the French region of Brittany since 1994 .

Personalities

  • Iacob Bologa (1817–1888), Romanian politician
  • Tiberiu Alexandru (1914–1997), Romanian ethnomusicologist , born in Ilimbav

literature

  • Georg E. Schuster: Marpod: a village in Transylvania , Transylvanian-Saxon Foundation, Munich, 1999. ISBN 3-932043-18-9

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ^ Dictionary of the localities in Transylvania
  3. ^ Lukas Joseph Marienburg : Geography of the Grand Duchy of Transylvania. Sibiu, 1813.
  4. ↑ a b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
  5. ↑ a b Information on the history of Marpod at sevenbuerger.de
  6. ↑ Census, last updated November 4, 2008 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.1 MB)
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Information on the municipality's website , accessed on June 16, 2015 (Romanian).
  8. ↑ a b c List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (Romanian; PDF; 7.10 MB)
  9. ↑ Information on Iacob Bologa from documente.bcucluj.ro accessed on June 14, 2015 (Romanian; PDF; 2.6 MB)