Ogra

Ogra
Ugern
Marosugra

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Mureș

Coordinates :

46 ° 27 ' N , 24 ° 19' E Coordinates: 46 ° 26 '50 " N , 24 ° 18' 50" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

329 m

Area :

52.16 km²

Residents :

2,387 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

46 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

547440

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 65

License plate :

MS

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

local community

Structure :

Ogra, Dileu Vechi , Giuluș , Lăscud , Vaideiu

Mayor :

Marian Palaghie ( PNL )

Postal address :

Str. Principală, no. 103A
loc. Ogra, jud. Mureș, RO-547440

Website :

www.primariaogra.ro

Ogra ( German Ugern , Hungarian Marosugra or Ugra ) is a municipality in the Mureș district , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Ogra in Mureș County

The municipality of Ogra is located in the north of the Kokel Valley (Podișul Târnavelor) in the southwestern part of the Mureș County. On the upper reaches of the Mureș (Mieresch) , the national road DN15 - here part of the European route 60 - and the railway line Alba Iulia – Târgu Mureș , the place Ogra is located six kilometers east of the city of Iernut (Radnuten) and 24 kilometers southwest of the district capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) away.

The four incorporated villages are located about four to eight kilometers from the community center.

history

The place Ogra was first mentioned in 1367. In the Middle Ages, Orga belonged to the estate of what is now Sânpaul, two kilometers away . In 1803 the Hungarian aristocratic Haller family acquired market rights for the place and built a country house here.

Except for a few archaeological finds of the Hallstatt period which, according to JF Niegebauer and M. Roska the Scythians were assigned, is located between a Roman road and the Mures a hillside grave , which was not yet assigned to age.

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged partly to the Radnót ( Iernut ) district in Klein-Kokelburg County ; the incorporated villages of Dileu Vechi (Hungarian Oláhdellő ) and Vaideiu (Neudorf) to the Marosludas ( Luduș ) district in Torda-Aranyos County . Subsequently, the villages belonged to the historical district of Târnava-Mică or Mureş and from 1950 to today's Mureş district.

In the autumn of 1944, heavy fighting between German and Soviet and Romanian troops took place in the area of the municipality on Mureș.

population

The population of the municipality of Ogra developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	2,930	2,166	531	-	233
1941	4.134	2,692	1,207	4th	231
1966	3,535	2.131	1,135	4th	265
2002	2,441	1,266	634	3	538
2011	2,387	1,081	508	3	795 (Roma 697)

The highest number of inhabitants has been registered in the area of today's municipality since 1850 and that of the Romanians in 1941. The highest population of the Magyars (1,406) was determined in 1930, that of the Romanian Germans in 1941 and 1966 and that of the Roma (697) in 2011.

Attractions

In the community center the Haller mansion , built in the 17th century, is a listed building, and the reformed church .
The Reformed Church in the incorporated village of Dileu Vechi, built in 1908.
In the incorporated village of Vaideiu, the wooden church Sfinții Arhangheli , built in 1866 and renovated in 1899, burned on December 6, 2017, but could be extinguished in time.