Piața Alexandru Mocioni
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
- ↑ 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