Meteș

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Meteș
Meteschdorf
Metesd
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Meteș (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Alba
Coordinates : 46 ° 6 '  N , 23 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 5 '49 "  N , 23 ° 25' 17"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 317  m
Area : 142.24  km²
Residents : 2,860 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 20 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 517445
Telephone code : (+40) 02 58
License plate : FROM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Meteș, Ampoița , Isca , Lunca Ampoiței , Lunca Meteșului , Pădurea , Poiana Ampoiului , Poiana Ursului , Presaca Ampoiului , Remetea , Tăuți , Văleni
Mayor : Dan-Cosmin Opruța ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 43
loc. Meteș, jud.Alba, RO – 517445
Website :
Others
City Festival : In August: Sărbătoarea mocanilor ("Festival of the Mountain Guardian ")

Meteș (outdated Varnița ; German  Meteschdorf , Hungarian Metesd ) is a Romanian municipality in the Alba district in the Transylvania region .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Meteş in the Alba district

The municipality of Meteș extends with its 12 villages in the south of the Trascău Mountains in western Transylvania in a hilly landscape on an area of ​​14,224 hectares. The place itself is located on the Ampoi - a right tributary of the Mureș (Mieresch) - and on Drum național 74 ( Zlatna - Alba Iulia ), about 16 kilometers west of the district capital Alba Iulia (Karlsburg) . The Alba Iulia – Zlatna railway , which was put into operation in 1895 and converted to standard gauge in 1984, crosses the area of ​​the municipality.

history

On the territory of the municipality, in the north of the incorporated village of Ampoița ( Ampoi River ), by the three large limestone cliffs - called La Pietri or Pietrele Gomnușei by the locals - archaeological discoveries have been made that were associated with the Copper Age .

The place was first mentioned in 1338 under the Hungarian name Metesd . In the Middle Ages the place was a Wallachian Hörigendorf . During the revolution of 1848 there was fighting between the troops of Axente Sever and units of the Hungarian revolutionary army on the territory of the municipality (near Presaca Ampoiului ) .

For a long time, the inhabitants of Meteș were mainly engaged in agriculture, especially cattle breeding.

population

At the 1850 census, 3066 people lived in the area of ​​today's municipality. 2993 of them were Romanians and 73 Roma . The highest population (4534) was reached in 1941, since then the population has been falling steadily. In 2002, 3181 people were counted; 3165 Romanians, two Hungarians , five Germans , eight Roma and one Ukrainian . The highest number of Romanians (4,527) was determined in 1941, Hungarians (49) in 1910, Germans (11) in 1910 and Roma (171) in 1956. In the censuses of 1880 and 1900, one Slovak was registered , four in 1900, one Serb in 1977 and one Ukrainian in 1900.

Attractions

  • The Romanian Orthodox Church Cuvioasa Paraschiva , built in 1780, is a listed building.
  • Memorial in the center of the village for those who fell in the First World War
  • The ruins of the castle Tauti in place Tauti ( Ratzenhaus ), 1276 by Bishop Peter of white castle on a 660 meter high mountain built, is a listed building.
  • In the incorporated village of Presaca Ampoiului ( Ober-Preßendorf ), on the national road DN 74, an obelisk erected in 1898 is intended to commemorate the events of the 1848 revolution and is a listed building.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
  3. ↑ Description of the people of Mocani ( Memento of 14 March 2011 at the Internet Archive ) (Romanian).
  4. ^ Dictionary of the localities in Transylvania
  5. ↑ Archaeological research in Romania 1983 - 2008, on www.cimec.ro, accessed on March 14, 2010 (Romanian)
  6. ↑ a b Meteș ( Memento from April 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ History of the community, on their website, accessed on March 14, 2010 ( Memento of March 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  8. ↑ Census, last updated October 30, 2008, p. 114 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.2 MB)
  9. ↑ a b c List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)

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