Pietroasa (Timiș)

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Pietroasa
Kőfalu
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Pietroasa (Timiș) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Banat
Circle : Timiș
Coordinates : 45 ° 50 ′  N , 22 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 49 ′ 59 ″  N , 22 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Area : 156.46  km²
Residents : 1,186 (2013)
Population density : 8 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 307320
Telephone code : (+40) 02 56
License plate : TM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Pietroasa, Crivina de Sus , Fărăşeşti and Poieni
Mayor : Simoc Ioan ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. Principala 109
loc. Pietroasa, jud. Timiș, RO-307320
Website :
Location of Pietroasa in Timiș County
Pietroasa on the Josephine land survey (1769–1772)
Wooden church in Pietroasa

Pietroasa (Hungarian: Kőfalu ) is a municipality in Timiș County , in the Banat region , in southwest Romania . The Pietroasa municipality also includes the villages of Crivina de Sus , Fărăşeşti and Poieni .

Geographical location

Pietroasa is located in the east of Timiș County, at the foot of the Poiana-Ruscă Mountains , close to the border with Hunedoara County . Pietroasa is 28 kilometers from Făget and 122 from the district capital Timișoara . It is 78 kilometers from Deva , the capital of Hunedoara County. Pietroasa is located on the national roads DN 6 and DN 68 A and on the county road DJ 684.

Neighboring places

Coșava Coșevița Ohaba
Curtea Neighboring communities Lăpugiu de Sus
Tomeşti Fărăşeşti Poieni

history

Pietroasa was first documented in 1514-1516, when it owned by George of Brandenburg-Ansbach was and district Margina in Hunedoara county belonged. In 1597 Sigismund Báthory donated the Petroza settlement to Stefan Török. From 1612 the property belonged to the Gabriel Bethlen family .

At the time of the Josephinian land survey of 1717, the place was called Petrovaz , had 15 houses and belonged to the Făget district. After the Peace of Passarowitz (1718), when the Banat became a crown domain of the Habsburg monarchy , the place appears under the name Petrossa .

The wooden church was built in 1779 and is now a listed building. The church is built from oak beams in the shape of a boat.

As a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867), the Banat was annexed to the Kingdom of Hungary within the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary . The official place name was Kőfalu .

The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 resulted in the Banat being divided into three parts , whereby Pietroasa fell to the Kingdom of Romania .

Demographics

The population development of the municipality of Pietroasa:

census Ethnicity
year Residents Romanians Hungary German Other
1880 1817 1737 30th 39 11
1910 2208 2083 65 16 44
1930 1942 1920 8th 11 3
1977 1412 1411 - - 1
2002 1174 1173 - - 1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
  2. ↑ a b c d primariapietroasa.ro , Pietroasa
  3. ↑ kia.hu , (PDF; 982 kB) E. Varga: Statistics of the number of inhabitants by ethnic group in the Timiș district according to censuses from 1880 - 2002