Neaua

Neaua
Havad

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Mureș

Coordinates :

46 ° 29 ' N , 24 ° 50' E Coordinates: 46 ° 28 '37 " N , 24 ° 49' 45" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

379 m

Area :

40.04 km²

Residents :

1,369 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

34 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

547435

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 65

License plate :

MS

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

local community

Structure :

Neaua, Ghineşti , Rigmani , Sânsimion , Vădaş

Mayor :

Grigore - Dominic Veress ( UDMR )

Postal address :

Str. Pricipală nr. 15
loc. Neaua, jud. Mureș, RO-547435

Website :

www.neaua.ro

Neaua (outdated Havad ; Hungarian Havad ) is a municipality in Mureș County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Neaua in Mureș County

The municipality of Neaua is located in the Transylvanian Basin north of the Kokel Highlands (Podișul Târnavelor) . Neaua is located nine kilometers north of the small town of Sângeorgiu de Pădure (Sankt Georgen auf der Heide) and 37 kilometers southeast of the Ghegheș brook , a tributary of the Târnava Mică (Little Kokel) , and the county road (Drum județean) DJ 135A District capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) away.

history

The place Neaua, a Szekler village , was first mentioned in 1569.

Colonization in the municipal area is in unincorporated village Rigmani (Hungarian Rigmány ) on said local area of the Culmea Stejarului the New Stone Age and Coastâ trocilor (Tekenösoldal) , the Hallstattzeit assigned.

In the incorporated village of Ghineşti (Gegesch) several archaeological objects were found, assigned to the Neolithic and Late Bronze Age .

At the time of the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged partly to the Régen alsó ("sub-rain") district and partly to the Nyáradszereda district in the Maros-Torda County, then to the historical Mureş district and from 1950 to the Mureş district of today.

The siblings Olga (1921–2006), writer and ethnographer , and Ödön Nagy (1914–1995), clergyman and ethnographer, recorded numerous traditions of the village population and their folk customs and traditions in connection with church holidays.

population

The population of today's municipality of Neaua developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	1.927	58	1,827	-	24
1941	2,653	2	2,630	2	19th
1992	1,632	5	1,582	1	44
2002	1,544	6th	1,430	1	107
2011	1,369	4th	1,224	2	139

Since 1850, the highest number of inhabitants in the area of today's municipality was determined in 1941. The highest number of Magyars was registered in 1941, the Roma (106) in 2002, the Romanians in 1850 and that of the Romanian Germans (7) in 1910.

The main occupation of the population is agriculture, fruit growing and livestock.

Attractions

In the incorporated village of Rigmani (outdated Răgmani or Râgmani ) the reformed church and the wooden bell tower, both built in 1667, the church renewed in 1880, are listed.
The Reformed churches, built in the community center around the end of the 18th century, built in the incorporated village of Ghineşti at the beginning of the 19th century, built in Sânsimion ( Nyárádszentsimon in Hungarian ) in the 13th century and those in Vădaş ( Vadasd in Hungarian ) built at the end of the 19th century .