Miercurea Sibiului

Miercurea Sibiului Reussmarkt Szerdahely
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Transylvania
Circle :	Sibiu
Coordinates :	45 ° 53 '  N , 23 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 53 '21 "  N , 23 ° 46' 56"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	345  m
Area :	85.12  km²
Residents :	3,910 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	46 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	557150
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 69
License plate :	SB
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	city
Structure :	2 districts / cadastral communities: Apoldu de Sus , Dobârca
Mayor :	Ioan Troancă ( PNL )
Postal address :	Str. Ilie Măcelariu, no. 210 loc. Miercurea Sibiului, jud. Sibiu, RO-557150
Website :	www.miercureasibiului.ro

Miercurea Sibiului ( German  Reussmarkt , Hungarian Szerdahely ) is a small town in the Transylvania region in Romania .

location

Reussmarkt is located in the Sibiu district , 34 km west of the district capital Sibiu in the Unterwald , on the European roads E68 and E81 .

history

Reussmarkt fortified church, 1966

Reussmarkt was founded in the 2nd half of the 12th century by Transylvanian-Saxon settlers. In 1290 the place is mentioned for the first time as a Ruhcmark . Around 1330 the place already had 90 families, which corresponds to a population of around 450 people. The population consisted mainly of farmers, but also partly of craftsmen who were organized in five different guilds . The Reussmarkt chair is mentioned for the first time in 1349 . As its seat, Reussmarkt gained great administrative importance. In 1488 only 43 families are named for the place. The taxes mentioned in the tax lists were also significantly lower than in earlier times. It can be assumed that Reussmarkt was hit hard by the Turkish invasions in the 15th century. In 1658 Reussmarkt was again devastated and burned down by the Turks . In 1704 the place was sacked by Serbs from the imperial army . Around 1713 the place had 68 families. During the Hungarian Revolution , Reussmarkt was also besieged in 1848.

The vast majority of Transylvanian Saxons Reussmarkt now live in Germany . Their number has decreased significantly in the course of the 20th century. The main reasons to be cited here are the Second World War and its consequences, the repression during communism but above all the mass emigration to Germany after the fall of the Wall in the early 1990s.

The economy has always been dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry. In 2004 the community was elevated to a city.

population

The population of Miercurea Sibiului developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	1371	571	35	703	62
1910	2055	980	144	918	13
1941	2065	989	24	1044	8th
1977	2585	1833	5	745	2
1992	2021	1790	4th	210	17th
2002	1917	1844	4th	69	-

Protestant church

The church and its ramparts go back to a Romanesque building and their main features date from the middle of the 13th century. From 1496 there was a significant strengthening of the fortifications and the conversion to today's hall church . Most of the furnishings date from the 18th century.

The circular wall, which dates from the 13th to 15th centuries, has a gate tower and, on the inside, living quarters and pantries along almost its entire length.

The facility was recently renovated with the support of the Transylvanian Saxon Foundation and is in good condition.

Local politics

Mandate distribution
Mandates in the local council (elections 2016):	PNL (7), PSD (5), ALDE (1)

The Reussmarkt local council has 13 members. In the local elections of 2016, Ioan Troancă was re-elected by the National Liberal Party.

people

• Ilie Măcelar (1822-1891), Transylvanian-Romanian politician, President of the "Romanian National Party of Transylvania"
• Victor Capesius (1907–1985), pharmacist in the Dachau and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps
• Robert Wellmann (1866–1946), artist, painter and entrepreneur
• Johann Jungwirth (* 1973), German engineer and manager

Web links

Commons : Miercurea Sibiului  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Reussmarkt on www.siebenbuerger.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( memento from August 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at citypopulation.de
2. ↑ Census, last updated November 4, 2008, p. 48 (Hungarian; PDF; 525 kB)
3. ↑ Alegeri locale 5th June 2016: Mandate atribiuite pentru Consilieri locali (Romanian) . June 5, 2016.  ( MS Excel ; 1.1 MB)
4. ↑ Walter Myss: Art in Siebenbürgen , Wort-und-Welt-Verlag, 1991, p. 278, ISBN 3-85373-127-9