Petelea

Petelea
Birk
Petele

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Mureș

Coordinates :

46 ° 44 ' N , 24 ° 42' E Coordinates: 46 ° 43 '45 " N , 24 ° 42' 22" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

358 m

Area :

43.70 km²

Residents :

2,977 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

68 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

547460

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 65

License plate :

MS

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

local community

Structure :

Petelea, Habic

Mayor :

Sorin-Pompei Pădurean ( PNL )

Postal address :

Str. Principală, no. 726
loc. Petelea, jud. Mureș, RO-547460

Website :

www.primariapetelea.ro

Petelea ( German Birk , Hungarian Petele ) is a municipality in the Mureș County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the Petelea municipality in Mureș County

The municipality of Petelea is located in the Reener Ländchen (Ținutul Reghinului) in the northern part of the Transylvanian Basin . At the confluence of the Beica in the upper reaches of the Mureș (Mieresch) , the Târgu Mureș – Gheorgheni railway line and the DN15 national road , Petelea is five kilometers south of the city of Reghin (Saxon Rain) and 28 kilometers north of the district capital of Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) away. The incorporated village is 14 kilometers (6.5 km as the crow flies) from the community center. The highest mountain in the municipality is Dealul Viilor at 511.7 m .

history

The place Petelea was first mentioned in 1332. An archaeological find on the area of the incorporated village of Habic ( Hétbükk in Hungarian ) was dated to the Neolithic and is in the museum in Alba Iulia (Weißenburg) . A Roman road is marked on the area of the community center and excavations in 1869 found around 200 Dacian coins from the Latène period , some of which are in the museums of Sibiu and Vienna .

Until 1944, Petelea was mainly inhabited by Romanian Germans. Their Evangelical Church was taken over by the Reformed Church . The church organ was destroyed, the pulpit is still there. The closed house fronts with their arches, the village school, the former rectory, the doctor's house and the town hall can be traced back to the town's population of German origin in the 19th century. In the expropriation of 1945 , the 220 Transylvanian-Saxon families were expropriated from around 1,312 hectares of land; 1,246 hectares of which were distributed among 411 “ beneficiaries ”.

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged to the Régen alsó (Lower Rain) district in Maros-Torda County , then to the historical Mureș District and, from 1950, today's Mureș District.

population

The population of the municipality of Petelea developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	2,337	936	8th	1,155	238
1920	2,816	1,323	102	1,164	29
1941	2,594	1,212	134	927	321
1956	2,612	1,873	212	104	423
1992	2,765	1,651	124	45	945
2002	2,780	1,680	119	36	945
2011	2,977	1,398	72	27	1,480

The highest number of inhabitants has been registered in the area of today's municipality since 1850 and that of the Roma (1400) in 2011. The highest population of Romanians (2,242) was determined in 1966, that of Romanian Germans in 1920 and that of Magyars in 1956.

Attractions

The wooden church Sf. Arhangheli in the community center, built in 1761 (the bell tower in 1848), and also numerous houses, built by the Transylvanian Saxons from the 18th to the 20th century, are listed as historical monuments.