Mercheașa

Mercheasa
dispute Fort
Mirkvásár

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Brașov

Municipality :

Homorod

Coordinates :

46 ° 4 ' N , 25 ° 20' E Coordinates: 46 ° 3 '59 " N , 25 ° 20' 10" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

469 m

Residents :

502 (2011)

Postal code :

507107

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 68

License plate :

BV

Structure and administration

Community type :

Village

Mercheasa [ merceaʃa ] ( German armed Fort , Hungarian Mirkvásár , såksesch Streitfert ) is a village in the county of Braşov in the region of Transylvania in Romania . Administratively, Mercheașa belongs to the municipality of Homorod (Hamruden) .

Mercheașa is also known under the Romanian outdated names Mertiașa , Mergheașa and Micloșa .

Geographical location

Controversy in the Josephine land survey from 1769 to 1773.

The place is located in the Altland on the lower reaches of the Kleiner Homorodbach (Homorodul Mic) and the district road (Drum județean) DJ 132 about nine kilometers northeast of the small town of Rupea (Reps) and about 50 kilometers northwest of the district capital Brașov (Kronstadt) .

history

The village was first mentioned in 1400 in a church tax register under the German name Stristfordia . It was on the king's floor and belonged to the Repser chair . In 1658, Streitfort, like the neighboring town of Katzendorf, was burned down by the Turks.

In the Kingdom of Hungary , Mercheașa belonged to the Kőhalom (now Rupea) district in the Groß-Kokelburg County , then to the historical Târnava-Mare district and, from 1950, to the present-day Brașov district.

population

The population in Mercheașa developed as follows from 1850 to 2002:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	1,187	416	-	655	116
1920	1,319	606	2	711	-
1941	1,028	440	28	493	67
1977	565	313	29	164	59
1992	501	224	19th	46	212
2002	534	270	35	9	220

Attractions

The main attraction of the place is the Transylvanian-Saxon fortified church .

The church probably goes back to a Romanesque three-aisled previous building built in the 13th century . In the 15th century it was converted into a hall church. The church was fortified at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century. Most of the wall and one of the original four defense towers are still preserved today. The current church tower was built between 1848 and 1858. The entire facility is in disrepair; is under monument protection.

On the site of the village is a 900 year old oak tree ( ⊙ ). It has a height of about 21 meters, a circumference of 9.3 meters and is called "The Old Man from the Carpathians" (Bătrânul Carpaților) .46.066138888889 25.362083333333

Evangelical fortified church
Evangelical fortified church
The oak fortress

literature

Michael Galz: Heimatbuch Streitfort in Siebenbürgen , Heimatortsgemeinschaft Streitfort, Gundelsheim / Neckar, 1997, ISBN 978-3-929848-08-3 , p. 546.