Petreşti (Alba)

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Petrești
Petersdorf
Péterfalva
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Petrești (Alba) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Alba
Municipality : Sebeș
Coordinates : 45 ° 55 '  N , 23 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 55 '12 "  N , 23 ° 33' 27"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 283  m
Residents : 4,230 (2002)
Postal code : 515850
Telephone code : (+40) 02 58
License plate : FROM
Structure and administration
Community type : Village

Petreşti (outdated Petrifalău ; German  Petersdorf , Hungarian Péterfalva ) is a Romanian village in the Alba district in Transylvania . Administratively it belongs to the city of Sebeş (Mühlbach) .

The place is also known by the outdated Romanian names Sânpetru and Petreşti-Alba and the Hungarian Peterfalu .

location

Petersdorf (Hungarian Peterfalu ) in the Josephinian land survey from 1769 to 1773.

The village of Petreşti is located about four kilometers south of the city of Sebeş, on the lower reaches of the Sebeş - a left tributary of the Mureş -, in the under forest , in the southwest of the Transylvanian Basin . In the south of the Alba district, on the national road ( Drum național ) DN67C - the so-called Transalpina - the place is about 21 kilometers south of the district capital Alba Iulia ("Karlsburg"). South of Petreşti, the Mühlbach Valley (Valea Sebeşului) quickly narrows ; there is the Petersdorf reservoir with a 22 meter high dam.

The only partially asphalted Transalpina or the “Königs-Weg” (Drumul Regelui) is the highest national road in Romania in the Transylvanian Alps at Pasul Urdele (2145 m) .

history

In the area of ​​the place - on an area called Groapa Galbănă by the locals - finds from the Neolithic and La Tène periods have been made. According to a report by K. Horedt from 1951, necropolis and ceramic parts from the end of the 1st century and the Middle Ages were found.

The place Petreşti was first mentioned in 1309 under the name villa Petri . Other names were 1368 villa Peterfalva , 1506 villa Petersdorff and 1532 Pyttersdorf .

Located in the Mühlbacher Stuhl on Königsboden , the place became famous for the Henning Grafen and the paper mill built in the 16th century . Count Henning, who campaigned for the rights of the Saxon settlers, died in a battle near Reps ( Rupea ) in 1324 .

In the 18th century, Protestant families from the margraviate of Baden-Durlach and Landler from Styria settled in Petersdorf .

At the beginning of August 2009, a temporary exhibition with exhibits from Petersdorf's past, the paper mill and a farmhouse parlor opened in Petreşti.

economy

  • The Elis Pavaje company - the largest manufacturer of paving stones in Romania - has been operating in Petrești since 1991. It started with a production of approx. 17 m² / day. In 2009 the company with its 350 employees achieved a daily production of approx. 8000 m², thus an annual turnover of 60 million RON .
  • The Petreşti paper mill, built in 1854, taken over by Neusiedler AG Vienna in 1873 , was nationalized in 1948 . After the facility was greatly enlarged in the 1960s, it has had difficulty surviving since 1989. Today's Pehart Tec SA , a member of the MG TEC Grup , is engaged in the production of tissue paper , toilet paper, kitchen towels and serviettes. Pehart Tec has been a stock corporation since 2005 .

population

The population of the place developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 1117 269 2 765 81
1930 2617 933 63 1505 116
1977 4167 2586 46 1138 397
1992 4120 3542 41 483 54
2002 4230 3957 38 189 46

In 2002 the largest population of the place was registered. The highest proportion of Romanians was in 2002, Germans in 1930, Hungarians (65) in 1966 and Roma in 1977. In addition, three inhabitants in 1880, two in 1920, one in 1910 and one in 1977 each described themselves as Slovaks , in 1890 one as Serb , in 1992 one and in 2002 two as a Ukrainian .

37 men were victims of the First World War ; During the Second World War , 281 men signed up for the German Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS in 1943 . In January 1945, 329 men and women were deported to the Soviet Union for forced labor and most of them were only released after five years. As a result of the Second World War and forced labor in the labor camps , 112 people died.

As everywhere in Transylvania, almost all of the Transylvanian Saxons left the place before and especially after the revolution of 1989 to emigrate to Germany.

Attractions

  • The ruins of a three-aisled basilica and the high keep - on the western bank of the Mühlbach -, built in the 13th century, surrounded by the village's evangelical cemetery, are under monument protection. After several wars and earthquakes, the church was last renovated in 1681 and demolished in 1854.
  • The Protestant village church, built in 1805.
  • The memorial for the victims of the two world wars, erected jointly by the Saxon and Romanian population in 2001 , stands in front of the new Romanian Orthodox Church .

Personalities

  • Simon Schobel (* 1950), Romanian-German handball player and coach

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dictionary of localities from Transylvania
  2. ↑ a b List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)
  3. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Sebeș, accessed July 8, 2010 (Romanian)
  4. ↑ Petersdorf near Mühlbach, on sevenbuerger.de
  5. ↑ a b c Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius: travel guide Transylvania . Kraft-Verlag, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
  6. ^ Exhibition with exhibits from Petrești on YouTube , accessed on July 9, 2010
  7. ^ Exhibition with exhibits from Petrești, on YouTube, accessed on July 9, 2010
  8. ↑ Website of the Elis Pavaje company in Petrești (Romanian)
  9. ↑ MG TEC Grup website , accessed on July 10, 2010 (Romanian)
  10. ↑ Website of the company Pehart Tec in Petrești (Romanian, English)
  11. ↑ Census, last updated October 30, 2008, p. 12 (PDF; 1.14 MB, Hungarian)
  12. ↑ a b c d history of the place, at www.siebenbuerger.de, accessed on July 8, 2010
  13. ↑ Devotional at the memorial for the victims of the two world wars and the deportation in Petreşti on YouTube, accessed on July 9, 2010