Răcășdia

Răcăşdia, Răcăştii Rakaschdia, Rakastia Rakasd, Rakasdia
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Banat
Circle :	Caraș-Severin
Coordinates :	45 ° 0 ′  N , 21 ° 36 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 0 ′ 18 "  N , 21 ° 35 ′ 30"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Area :	61.15  km²
Residents :	1,976 (2014)
Population density :	32 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	327315
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 55
License plate :	CS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Răcășdia, Vrăniuț
Mayor :	Lechici Ilie-Mirco ( PNL )
Postal address :	Principală, no. 535 loc. Răcășdia, jud. Caraș-Severin, RO- 327315
Website :	www.e-primarii.ro/primaria-racasdia

Location of Răcășdia in the Caraș-Severin County

Răcășdia on the Josephine land survey

Răcășdia (also Răcăștii , German: Rakaschdia , Rakastia , Hungarian: Rakasd , Rakasdia ) is a municipality in the Caraș-Severin County , Banat , Romania . The municipality also includes the village Racasdia Vrăniuţ .

Geographical location

Răcăşdia is located in the southwest of the Caraş-Severin County, on the Oravița - Baziaş railway line, the country's first railway line, which was built between 1846 and 1854, and on the DN57 Moravița - Orşova national road . Răcășdia is located 65 km from Reșița , seven km from Oravița and 45 km from Moldova Nouă .

Neighboring places

Vrani	Vărădia	Oravița
Berliște		Ciclova Română
Rusova Veche	Ciuchici	Socolari

history

The name of the village comes from the stream Răcăşdiuța that crosses the village and the river name is derived from Rac (crayfish), from which the river was richly populated. The first written mention comes from 1440. Racajdia and Racajtia can be found in old church documents . 1690 mentioned Pesty Frigies Răcăştia in the "History of the Severin Banat". Over the centuries, different spellings of the place name appear: Rakastia (1569), Rakustia (1717), Rakastie (1749), Rakasztia (1785), Rakasdia (1828).

Rakashdia is entered on the Josephine land survey of 1717 . After the Peace of Passarowitz (1718) the village was part of the Habsburg crown domain Temescher Banat .

The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 resulted in the division of the Banat into three parts , whereby Răcăştii fell to the Kingdom of Romania . On June 3, 1933, King Carol II visited Răcăşdia accompanied by Crown Prince Mihai I. With this opportunity, the king himself laid the foundation stone of the House of Culture and donated a considerable amount of money for its construction.

Population development

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1880	4680	4597	29	42	12
1910	4532	4388	40	42	62
1930	3976	3843	11	42	80
1977	2374	2216	3	7th	148
2002	2180	1732	14th	7th	427

Web links

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

• e-primarii.ro , Răcășdia
• ghidulprimariilor.ro , Răcășdia
• banaterra.eu , monograph of the Răcășdia municipality

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
2. ↑ banaterra.eu , monograph of the Răcășdia municipality
3. ↑ kia.hu (PDF; 858 kB), E. Varga: Statistics of the number of inhabitants by ethnicity in the Caraș-Severin district according to censuses from 1880 - 2002