Mirăslău

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Mirăslău
Miriszló
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Mirăslău (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Alba
Coordinates : 46 ° 22 '  N , 23 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 21 '39 "  N , 23 ° 42' 20"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 236  m
Area : 68.24  km²
Residents : 1,985 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 29 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 517470
Telephone code : (+40) 02 58
License plate : FROM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Mirăslău, Cicău , Decea , Lopadea Veche , Ormeniș , Rachiș
Mayor : Liviu-Gigel Alexandru ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 283
loc. Mirăslău, jud.Alba, RO – 517470
Website :

Mirăslău (outdated Mirislău or Miraslă ; Hungarian Miriszló or Oláhmiriszló ) is a Romanian municipality in the Alba district in Transylvania .

Geographical location

Location of the Mirăslău commune in the Alba county
The wooden church in Cicău

The municipality of Mirăslău is located in the north of the Alba district in a right side valley of the Mureș River , in the southwest of the Transylvanian Basin . At Drum național 1 and the Alba Iulia – Târgu Mureș railway line , Mirăslău is 6 kilometers southeast of the city of Teiuș (Dreikirch) ; the district capital Alba Iulia (Karlsburg) is located about 22 kilometers southwest of Mirăslău.

history

On the territory of the municipality of Mirăslău, in the incorporated villages of Cicău (Hungarian Csákó ) and Decea (Hungarian Marosdécse ), called Sălişte or După garduri by the locals , there are archaeological sites that indicate settlement since the Neolithic Age . In Lopadea Veche (ung. Oláhlapád ) there is another excavation site ( Jidovina ) from which objects from the Bronze Age were discovered.

The place founded by Hungary was first mentioned in 1219 under the name villa Myroslov .

On September 18, 1600, the Habsburg general Georg Basta defeated the Wallachian voivode Mihai Viteazul on the territory of the municipality .

The main occupations of the population are agriculture and livestock.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 2,937 2,208 624 - 105
1900 3,519 2,509 879 4th 127
1956 3,913 2,806 996 1 110
2002 2,334 1,667 627 1 39

The highest number of inhabitants (3982) of today's municipality was determined in 1941; that of the Romanians (2954) and the Hungarians (1005) in 1930, the Germans (9) in 1910 and that of the Roma (160) in 1930. In the census of 1890 a Serb was registered , in 2002 a Slovak . Since the census from 1850 to 1930, Romanians and Hungarians lived in equal parts in Mirăslău.

Attractions

  • The ruins of the Catholic stone church of St. Peter , built in 1274.
  • The monument with the portrait of the voivod Michael, erected in 1956 in memory of the battle of 1600, is a listed building.
  • In the incorporated village of Cicău (ung. Csákó ) the wooden church Sf. Arhangheli built in the 15th century and rebuilt in the 18th century is a listed building.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
  3. ^ Dictionary of the localities in Transylvania
  4. ↑ a b c List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)
  5. ↑ Mirăslău ( Memento of April 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ a b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft-Verlag, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
  7. ↑ Census, last updated October 30, 2008, p. 119 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.2 MB)