Odorheiu Secuiesc

Odorheiu Secuiesc Oderhellen Székelyudvarhely
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Transylvania
Circle :	Harghita
Coordinates :	46 ° 19 ′  N , 25 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 18 ′ 41 ″  N , 25 ° 17 ′ 59 ″  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	390  m
Area :	47.79  km²
Residents :	34,257 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	717 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	535600
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 66
License plate :	MR
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	Municipality
Mayor :	Arpád Gálfi ( MPP - EMNP )
Postal address :	Piața Primăriei, no. 5 loc. Odorheiu Secuiesc, jud. Harghita, RO-535600
Website :	www.varoshaza.ro

Odorheiu Secuiesc ( Romanian colloquial Odorhei ; German  Oderhellen , Hungarian Székelyudvarhely ) is a town in the Harghita district in Transylvania , Romania .

In dialectical variants the city is sometimes called Odderhallen or Hofmarkt .

Geographical location

Odorheiu Secuiesc lies east of the Transylvanian Basin , in the western foothills of the Harghita Mountains ( Munții Harghita ), a mountain range of the Eastern Carpathians . At the mouth of the Sărat stream in the upper reaches of the Târnava Mare , the Vânători – Odorheiu Secuiesc railway and the Drum național 13A , the city is located about 50 kilometers southwest of the district capital Miercurea Ciuc ( Szeklerburg ).

history

Odorheiu Secuiesc is the cultural center of the Szeklerland . The city was first mentioned in a document in a papal register in 1330, but the area has been inhabited since the Stone Age. Udvarhely Castle ("Hofstelle") has been the center of the Szekler in the west of the Harghita Mountains since the 13th century .

In August 2005 Odorheu Secuiesc and some surrounding villages were hit by severe flooding.

Demographics

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1850	4,789	117	4,355	71	246
1920	11,554	211	11,015	154	174
1941	13,550	52	13,311	130	57
1977	28,738	866	27,688	47	137
1992	39,959	837	38,937	39	146
2002	36,948	1,077	35,357	25th	489
2011	34,257	861	31,665	9	1,722 (509 Roma )

Attractions

• The Jesus Chapel does not date from the 13th century, as assumed, but from the 16th century. It is a quatrefoil church, a rare monument of Romanesque style in Transylvania and is a listed building.
• Haáz Rezsõ Museum
• Scientific library , the foundations could be laid with book donations from Prince Apafi Mihály and his chancellor, the school founder Bethlen János .
• Numerous buildings in Bethlen Gábor , Cetății , Kossuth Lajos and Tompa László streets are listed as historical monuments.

• 

  The Tamasi Aron Lyceum

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  City center

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  Jesus Chapel

Sports

The HC Odorheiu Secuiesc plays in the first Romanian handball league since of 2007.

Twin cities

Odorheiu Secuiesc has partnerships with the Serbian city of Subotica , the Slovak town of Dunajska Streda , and the Hungarian towns of Barcs , Békéscsaba , Cegléd , Hajdúdorog , Keszthely , Tatabánya , Tihany , Törökbálint , Vác and the Budapest districts Budavár and Soroksár .

Personalities

• Péter Eötvös (* 1944), Hungarian composer and conductor
• Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth (* 1978), German table tennis player
• Endre Rajk (1899–1960), Hungarian fascist politician
• László Rajk (1909–1949), Hungarian communist politician

See also

List of cities in Romania

Web links

Commons : Odorheiu Secuiesc  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Oderhellen at sevenbuerger.de
• Odorheiu Secuiesc at ghidulprimariilor.ro
• Tourist information about the city

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 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. ↑ E. Varga: Statistics of the population by ethnic group in Harghita County according to censuses from 1850–2002 (Hungarian; PDF; 675 kB)
4. ↑ ^{a b} List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)
5. ↑ Information on town twinning on the Odorheis website ( memento of the original from November 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.