Râciu
Râciu Mezőrücs |
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Romania | |||
Historical region : | Transylvania | |||
Circle : | Mureș | |||
Coordinates : | 46 ° 41 ' N , 24 ° 24' E | |||
Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | |||
Height : | 329 m | |||
Area : | 73.95 km² | |||
Residents : | 3,748 (October 20, 2011) | |||
Population density : | 51 inhabitants per km² | |||
Postal code : | 547485 | |||
Telephone code : | (+40) 02 65 | |||
License plate : | MS | |||
Structure and administration (as of 2016) | ||||
Community type : | local community | |||
Structure : | Râciu, Căciulata , Coasta Mare , Cotorinau , Curețe , Hagău , Leniș , Nima Râciului , Obârșie , Pârâu Crucii , Sânmărtinu de Câmpie , Ulieș , Valea Seacă , Valea Sânmărtinului , Valea Ulieșului | |||
Mayor : | Ioan Vasu (independent) | |||
Postal address : | St. Gheorghe Șincai, no. 58 loc. Râciu, jud. Mureș, RO-547485 |
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City Festival : | July 20, Târgu lui Ilie |
Râciu old spelling Rîciu [ ˈrɨt͡ʃiu ] (outdated Riciul de Câmpie ; Hungarian Mezőrücs ) is a municipality in the Mureș County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .
The place is also known under the Hungarian name Rücs .
Geographical location
The municipality of Râciu with its 15 villages and hamlets is located in the Transylvanian Basin in the west of the Mureș district. On the upper reaches of the Lechința a right tributary of the Mureș (Mieresch) and the Drum național 15E , the place Râciu is located 26 kilometers northwest of the district capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) .
From Râciu, the Mocănița Transilvaniei narrow-gauge railway will again run in a northerly direction in the spring of 2017 for around 35 kilometers to the town of Teaca in the Bistrița-Năsăud district after a long shutdown .
history
The place Râciu was first mentioned in 1305 and was a Romanian Knesendorf in the Middle Ages . In unincorporated village Sânmărtinu de Campie (Martelsfeld) one was archaeological find in the Roman period dated.
In the Kingdom of Hungary , the municipality belonged to the Maros Felső (Ober-Maros) district in Maros-Torda County and then to the historical Mureș District and, from 1950, today's Mureș District.
population
The population of the municipality of Râciu developed as follows:
census | Ethnic composition | ||||
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year | population | Romanians | Hungary | German | other |
1850 | 2,839 | 2,247 | 385 | 7th | 173 |
1920 | 3,894 | 3,356 | 470 | - | 68 |
1966 | 6,442 | 5,911 | 351 | 2 | 178 |
2002 | 3,752 | 3,343 | 119 | - | 290 |
2011 | 3,748 | 3,274 | 97 | - | 377 |
Since 1850, the highest number of inhabitants and that of Romanians in 1966 have been registered in the area of today's municipality. The highest number of Magyars (995) in 1941, Roma (290) in 2002 and that of Romanian Germans was determined in 1850.
Attractions
- In the incorporated village of Nima Râciului (Hungarian Néma ), the wooden church built around 1800 is a listed building.
- In the monastery of the incorporated village of Sânmărtinu de Câmpie, the wooden church built in the 17th century is a listed building.
Personalities
- Gheorghe Șincai (1754–1816), theologian and historian
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
- ↑ Arcanum Kézikönyvtár: Historical-administrative book of place names of Transylvania, Banat and Partium. Retrieved November 20, 2018 (Hungarian).
- ^ Marius Frățilă: Bistrița-Năsăud: Mocănița Transilvaniei își reia cursele turistice la sfârșitul lunii mai. AGERPRES, May 17, 2017, accessed December 6, 2018 (Romanian).
- ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
- ↑ Institute Of Archeology - Sânmărtinu de Campie , accessed on December 2, 2018 (Romanian).
- ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian)
- ↑ Information on the wooden church in Nima Râciului at biserici.org, accessed on November 25, 2018 (Romanian)
- ↑ a b List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian)