Moineşti

Moineşti is located on the eastern edge of the Carpathian Mountains , between the Gosman Mountains in the northwest and Berzunt in the southeast. The district capital Bacau is located about 35 km northeast.

history

The village, then located in the Principality of Moldova , was first mentioned in 1467 when the Hungarian army under Matthias Corvinus withdrew to Transylvania after the battle of Baia against the troops Ștefan cel Mares .

A market was first mentioned in Moineşti in 1832. At that time agriculture and handicrafts were the most important branches of the economy. In 1864 the place became a parish seat. In 1921 he received the rank of "township" ( comună urbană ).

In the 19th and first half of the 20th century Moineşti had a significant Jewish population, which almost completely disappeared due to the Holocaust and emigration after the Second World War .

Since the 15th century at the latest, oil wells have been known in the vicinity of the place that have been used on a larger scale since the middle of the 19th century. As a result, refineries and chemical plants were built. Other natural resources in the region are natural gas , coal and wood.

The drastic economic changes after the revolution of 1989 led to the decline of significant parts of the chemical industry that had been located here since World War II and to correspondingly high unemployment.

In 2001 Moinești was named a municipality ( Municipiul ) - that is, a more important city.

population

In 1832, 188 houses and 588 inhabitants were registered in Moineşti. At the 2002 census, 24,210 people lived in the city, including 23,397 Romanians , 32 Hungarians , 753 Roma and 9 Germans .

traffic

Moineşti has a rail connection that branches off the Adjud – Siculeni railway in the town of Comăneşti, eight kilometers away . This branch line, built in the years 1896–1899, has been out of service since 2001, and since July 2014 the line to Comăneşti has been up for auction. There are bus connections to the district capital of Bacau several times a day.

Attractions

Dada monument (25 m long, 2.6 m wide, 10 m high, 120 tons heavy, reinforced concrete), on the road to Bacau. The monument commemorates Tristan Tzara and was designed by the German sculptor of Romanian origin Ingo Glass .

Personalities

Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), writer, co-founder of Dadaism
Moses Rosen (1912–1994), Romania's chief rabbi
Adrian Gheorghiu (* 1981), Romanian football player

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)

↑ Portalul Primariilor Judeţului Bacău, accessed on November 23, 2008 ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ 2002 census, accessed November 24, 2008
^ The train station in Moineşti at moinesteanul.ro, on September 18, 2011 accessed on September 8, 2014 (Romanian)
↑ The CFR wants to rent 1,100 km from adevarul.ro on July 16, 2014 accessed on September 8, 2014 (Romanian; PDF)
↑ View of the DADA monument and its description

[1] 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)