Moldoveneşti

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Moldoveneşti
Burgdorf
Várfalva
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Moldovenești (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Cluj
Coordinates : 46 ° 30 '  N , 23 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 30 '0 "  N , 23 ° 39' 49"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 399  m
Area : 139  km²
Residents : 3,317 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 24 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 407430
Telephone code : (+40) 02 64
License plate : CJ
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Moldoveneşti, Bădeni , Pietroasa , Plăieşti , Podeni , Stejeriş
Mayor : Ioan Mărginean ( UDMR )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 240
loc. Moldoveneşti, jud. Cluj, RO-407430
Website :

Moldoveneşti (formerly Varfalău ; Hungarian Várfalva , German  Burgdorf ) is a municipality in the Cluj County in Transylvania , Romania .

Surname

The settlement originally had the Hungarian name Várfalva , from which the Romanian form Varfalău was modified. After the First World War, the village was named after Ioan Micu Moldovan, who was born here.

location

Moldoveneşti is located in western Transylvania on the northeastern edge of the Trascău Mountains, around the point where the Arieş River leaves the mountains. The closest major city is Turda (about 15 km northeast).

history

The place and the nearby former castle Castrum Torda were first mentioned in a document in 1075. Moldoveneşti is said to be the oldest documented settlement in Transylvania.

The castle was built on the site of a Roman fortification, which u. a. had to supervise the transport of the gold mined in the Apuseni Mountains ( Alburnus Maior ) in the valley of the Arieș.

Around the year 1285 the place was destroyed by Tatars , but then rebuilt.

Near Moldoveneşti, 57 graves from the Arpad period were discovered.

population

The place in the narrower sense had 1242 inhabitants in 2002. About 2500 other residents of the community live in the incorporated villages. In Moldoveneşti itself, 73% of citizens described themselves as Hungarians in 2002 ; the rest are Romanians and Roma .

traffic

Moldoveneşti is a few hundred meters off the national road (Drum național) DN 75 from Turda to Ștei .

The small railway leading from Turda to Abrud was shut down at the end of the 1990s. Since then, the nearest train station has been around 20 km away on the Cluj-Napoca-Războieni railway line .

Attractions

In addition to the castle mentioned (of which only small remains are visible), the now Unitarian church is worth mentioning, which was built around 1300.

About 10 km southwest of the village is the striking mountain Piatra Secuiului , one of the most beautiful elevations of the Trascău Mountains.

gallery

  • Castle Hill

  • Unitarian Church

Personalities

  • Ioan Micu Moldovan (1833–1915), historian, theologian and folklorist

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
  2. ↑ a b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
  3. ↑ Árpád E. Varga: Bihar megye településeinek etnikai (anyanyelvi / nemzetiségi) adatai 1880–2002. (Online document) (PDF file; 1.02 MB).
  4. ↑ Zevedei-Ioan Drăghiță: Protector of the cultural heritage in Transylvania (information on Ioan Micu Moldovan at istorie.uab.ro) ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Romanian; PDF; 192 kB)