Râșca (Cluj)

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Râșca
Rissdorf
Roska
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Râșca (Cluj) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Cluj
Coordinates : 46 ° 44 '  N , 23 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 43 '45 "  N , 23 ° 6' 34"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 930  m
Area : 65.65  km²
Residents : 1,446 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 22 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 407490
Telephone code : (+40) 02 64
License plate : CJ
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Râşca, Dealu Mare , Lăpuşteşti , Mărceşti
Mayor : Ioan Morar ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 327
loc. Râşca, jud. Cluj, RO-407490
Website :
Others
City Festival : 1st Saturday and Sunday in October "Festivalul cartofului" (The Potato Festival )

Râşca or Rîşca [ ˈrɨʃca ] ( German  Rissdorf , Hungarian Roska ) is a municipality in the Cluj County , in Transylvania , Romania .

The place Rîşca is also known by the Hungarian names Középroska and Roskatelep .

Geographical location

Location of the Râșca municipality in the Cluj district

The municipality of Râşca is located in the northeastern foothills of the Gilăuer Mountains (Munții Gilăului) , a mountain range of the Apuseni Mountains (Munții Apuseni) in the north of the Motzenland . The place Râșca is located on the stream of the same name - a tributary of the Someșul Cald (Warm Somesch)  - and the district road (Drum județean) DJ 103K about 25 kilometers south of the small town of Huedin and about 44 kilometers west of the district capital Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) .

history

The place Râşca was first mentioned in 1786. In the 18th century Rîşca de Jos belonged to Mănăşturu , Rîşca de Mijloc and Rîşca de Sus to Mănăstireni . These scattered settlements became a village in 1930.

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality was located in the Bánffyhunyad chair district in the Klausenburg County (Hungarian Kolozs ). Subsequently, the municipality belonged to the historical Cluj District and from 1950 to the present Cluj District.

population

Only Romanians have been registered in the area of ​​today's Râşca municipality since 1850 . In 1850 there were 155 in what is now Lăpuşteşti (in Hungarian Felsőszamos ) and it was not until 1930 that the residents of today's community center were also registered (1625). The number of inhabitants rose steadily, so that in 1977 the highest number of inhabitants was registered with 2664. Magyars were also recorded in almost every census , the highest number (four) being in 1956.

The main occupations of the population are agriculture (mainly potato growing) and livestock.

Attractions

  • The community center is the starting point for the gorge of Someșul Cald and the nearby Tarnița ( ⊙ ) and Beliș-Fântânele ( ⊙ ) reservoirs .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Arcanum Kézikönyvtár: Historical-administrative book of place names of Transylvania, Banat and Partium. Retrieved December 5, 2017 (Hungarian).
  3. ↑ a b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  4. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian)
  5. ↑ General information about the municipality of Râşca at cluj.com; accessed on December 25, 2017 (Romanian)