Petrifeld

Petreşti Petrifeld Mezőpetri
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Sathmar
Circle :	Satu Mare
Coordinates :	47 ° 36 '  N , 22 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '15 "  N , 22 ° 21' 50"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Area :	29.45  km²
Residents :	1,588 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	54 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	447240
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 61
License plate :	SM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Petreşti, Dindeştiu Mic
Mayor :	Csaba Karádi ( UDMR )
Postal address :	Str. Principală, nr.1 loc. Petreşti, jud. Satu Mare, RO-447240
Website :	www.petrifeld.ro

Petrifeld ( Romanian Petreşti , Hungarian Mezőpetri ) is a municipality in the Satu Mare district in northwestern Romania . At 27.33 percent, Petrifeld is the municipality with the largest proportion of Romanian Germans according to the 2011 census .

Geographical location

Location of Petreşti in Satu Mare County

Petrifeld is located in the historical Sathmar County in the so-called Câmpia Careilor (Careier plain) on the Hungarian border. In the southwest of the Satu Mare district, on the European route 671 , the place is about eleven kilometers south of the city of Carei ( Groß-Karol ), the district capital Satu Mare ( Sathmar ) is about 48 kilometers northeast of Petrești.

history

Petrifeld was first mentioned in a document in 1316 as Mezeu Petri . In 1740 German settlers - so-called Sathmar Swabians - settled in the village.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1880	1,168	59	237	819	53
1930	1,588	41	70	1,447	30th
1956	2,641	119	2,102	367	53
1966	2,848	101	2.113	598	28
2002	1,683	199	794	530	160
2011	1,588	199	745	434	210

Since 1880 the highest number of inhabitants and that of the Magyars in 1966 have been determined in the area of ​​today's municipality. The highest number of Romanian Germans was registered in 1930, that of Romanians in 2002 and 2011, and that of Roma (159) in 2002. Furthermore, one claimed to be a Ukrainian in 1977 and a Serb in 1992 .

The 2011 census showed the following ethnic composition of the population of Petrifeld: 745 were Magyars, 434 Romanian Germans, 199 were Romanians, 167 Roma, six known themselves as Tschangos and the rest gave no information about their ethnicity.

Local politics

In the local elections in June 2012, the mayor of the village Georg Otto Marchis was re-elected by the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania . The parish council had 11 councilors; ten from the UDMR and one member from the social-liberal coalition USL .

Attractions

• Swabian Museum
• Roman Catholic Church of St. Elisabeth , built from 1786 to 1878, is a listed building.

Web links

Commons : Petrești  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Petrești at ghidulprimariilor.ro
• German website about the Sathmar Swabians

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
2. ↑ Official German-language name according to Romanian government resolution 1415 of December 6, 2002 ( Official Journal )
3. ↑ Information on the website of the municipality ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on June 13, 2015 (Romanian) 
4. ↑ Census, last updated March 3, 2010 (Hungarian; PDF; 633 kB)
5. ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (Romanian; PDF; 7.10 MB)