Nadeș

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Nadeș
Nadesch
Szásznádas
Coat of arms of Nadeș
Nadeș (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Mureș
Coordinates : 46 ° 19 '  N , 24 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 19 '17 "  N , 24 ° 43' 9"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 368  m
Residents : 2,484 (October 20, 2011)
Postal code : 547430
Telephone code : (+40) 02 65
License plate : MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Nadeș, Măgheruș , Pipea , Țigmandru
Mayor : Erhardt-Laszlo Ivan ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 343
loc. Nadeș, jud. Mureș, RO-547430
Website :

Nadeş , ( German  Nadesch , formerly also called Saxon Nadesch , Hungarian Szásznádas ) is a municipality in the Mureş district in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of Nadeș in Mureș County
View of the fortified church

Nadeş is 19 kilometers from the small town of Sighişoara (Schäßburg) and 36 kilometers from the district capital Târgu Mureş (Neumarkt am Mieresch) . In the west, the place is crossed by the European route 60 . The municipality borders in the east on Pipea (Wepeschdorf) , Jacodu (Hungarian Sacken) and Boiu (Freudendorf) , in the south on Hetiur (Marienburg) , in the west on Măgheruș (Maniersch) and in the north on Țigmandru (Zuckmantel) . The highest mountain in the area reaches 657  m .

History and population

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1301. Until 1848 Nadesch belonged to the subordinate communities of the county floor . The Transylvanian Saxons formed the largest population group until after the Second World War .

The 1966 census showed the following ethnic composition: 687 Germans (Transylvanian Saxons), 599 Romanians , 269 Hungarians and three Roma . After the collapse of the communist dictatorship in 1989, most of the Transylvanian Saxons emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany . The 2002 census showed 1228 people, of whom 669 were Romanians, 275 Hungarians, 262 Roma and 23 Germans.

In 2002, a total of 2406 people lived in the entire municipality, which, in addition to the town of Nadeș, also includes the villages of Măgheruș, Pipea and Țigmandru, of which 1416 were Romanians, 573 Hungarians, 374 Roma and 43 Germans. In 2011 the number of the community population rose to 2,484 people, of whom 1,361 were Romanians, 494 Magyars, 457 Roma, 33 Romanian Germans and three called themselves Ukrainians .

Personalities

The personalities born in Nadesch include the botanist and local historian Franz Friedrich Fronius and the theologian Erich Roth .

The physician and later Bishop Bartholomäus Bausner as well as the local researcher and poet Georg Friedrich Marienburg lived and worked in Nadesch .

Attractions

  • In Nadesch there is a fortified church built in the 14th century, renovated in the 16th and a listed building. The current hall church was built between 1851 and 1853. The small bell of the church tower was cast in 1470. The inscription on this bell ( helf got maria berot ) is considered the oldest German inscription on a bell in Transylvania.
  • The Protestant rectory built between 1771 and 1789 is a listed building.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
  2. ↑ Censuses from 1850 to 2002 in today's Mureș County (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  3. ↑ a b List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian)