Orheiu Bistriței
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Orheiu Bistriței Castle Hall Óvárhely |
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 Romania
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| Historical region : | Transylvania | ||||
| Circle : | Bistrița-Năsăud | ||||
| Municipality : | Cetate | ||||
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 6 ' N , 24 ° 36' E | ||||
| Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | ||||
| Height : | 400 m | ||||
| Residents : | 614 (2002) | ||||
| Postal code : | RO-427038 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+40) 02 63 | ||||
| License plate : | BN | ||||
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| Community type : | Village | ||||
Orheiu Bistriței (German castle hall , Hungarian Óvárhely , Transylvanian-Saxon Burichhaln ) is a Romanian village in the municipality of Cetate in the district of Bistrița-Năsăud .
location
Orheiu Bistriței is located in the Budaktal in Nösnerland eleven kilometers southeast of the city of Bistrița in the north of Transylvania .
history
Finds from the more recent past indicate that a Roman fortification (castrum Arcobadara) existed here, which the German immigrants found in the 12th century as a ruin. The place was first mentioned in documents in 1319 under the Hungarian name Varhel or Warhel . In the next few centuries the place was shaped by the Transylvanian Saxons who lived here outside of the Königsboden as slaves . In 1910 and 1929 there was a wave of Transylvanian Saxons who emigrated to North America. Towards the end of the Second World War, most of the residents of German origin fled the town to Germany; almost all of the others left by the time of the Romanian Revolution in 1989 .
Residents
| year | Total population | including Transylvanian Saxons |
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| 1850 | 940 | 543 |
| 1880 | 624 | 525 |
| 1890 | 652 | 542 |
| 1900 | 689 | 539 |
| 1910 | 691 | 516 |
| 1930 | 576 | 420 |
| 1941 | 584 | 403 |
| 1966 | 554 | 116 |
| 1977 | 530 | 52 |
| 1992 | 644 | 5 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
- ^ Censuses in Transylvania 1850–2002, accessed on December 13, 2009 (PDF; 677 kB)
literature
- Hanspeter Zehner (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch Burghalle. The story of a German community in the Budaktal in northern Transylvania. Self-published, Au bei Freiburg 1990.
- Sorin Nemeti: Finding Arcobadara. Essay on the geography and administration of Roman Dacia Cluj - Napoca 2014, ISBN 978-606-543-514-8