Moldoveneşti
Moldoveneşti Burgdorf Várfalva |
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Romania | |||
Historical region : | Transylvania | |||
Circle : | Cluj | |||
Coordinates : | 46 ° 30 ' N , 23 ° 40' 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 |
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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
Personalities
- Ioan Micu Moldovan (1833–1915), historian, theologian and folklorist
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
- ↑ a b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
- ↑ Árpád E. Varga: Bihar megye településeinek etnikai (anyanyelvi / nemzetiségi) adatai 1880–2002. (Online document) (PDF file; 1.02 MB).
- ↑ 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)