Piața Alexandru Mocioni

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Piața Alexandru Mocioni (2009), in the background the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the neighboring Piața Sinaia
The square shortly after the turn of the century

The Piața Alexandru Mocioni is a triangular square in the Romanian city ​​of Timișoara . It was named after the politician Alexandru Mocioni (1841-1909), who at the time represented the Romanian minority in the Hungarian parliament. The square is located in the Iosefin district , directly on the border with the Elisabetin district , which borders the square in the course of the Bulevardul 16 Decembrie 1989 . During the Romanian Revolution in 1989 , riots took place on the Piața Alexandru Mocioni.

Name story

In the 19th century, both today's Piața Alexandru Mocioni and its triangular Elisabethstadt counterpart - the Piața Sinaia on the other side of Bulevardul 16 Decembrie 1989 - were all called József tér , named after Franz Joseph I. Together, the two halves of the square almost formed a square.

In the 19th century, the city administration finally renamed the half of the Josefstädter Platz in Küttl tér . It was named after the former mayor of the city Károly Küttl , who died in 1875 , and since 2006 a trilingual plaque commemorates him. With the beginning of the Romanian era after the First World War , the square was initially called Piața Axente Sever , and in the socialist era it was then called Piața Ștefan Furtună , a protagonist of the Romanian peasant uprising of 1907 . The Piața Alexandru Mocioni got its current name in the 1990s. The colloquial term Küttel-Platz is still used in the German population today.

The Piața Sinaia , on which the Church of the Virgin Mary's Birth , built in the 1930s, stands, was called Piața Asăneşti in the interwar period . It received its current name during the socialist era.

Web links

  • intimisoara.com , map of the Piața Alexandru Mocioni, in Romanian
  • timisoreni.ro , Points of Interest at Piața Alexandru Mocioni, in Romanian
  • simplis.ro , Points of Interest at Piața Alexandru Mocioni, in Romanian

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Vastag, György Mandics, Manfred Engelmann : Timisoara: symbol of freedom . Amalthea, 1992, ISBN 3-85002-311-7 , pp. 300, here p. 119 .

Coordinates: 45 ° 44 ′ 48 ″  N , 21 ° 12 ′ 59.5 ″  E