Romos

Romos Rumes Romosz
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Transylvania
Circle :	Hunedoara
Coordinates :	45 ° 50 ′  N , 23 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 50 ′ 23 "  N , 23 ° 16 ′ 30"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	256  m
Area :	74.00  km²
Residents :	2,604 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	35 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	337410
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 54
License plate :	HD
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Romos, Ciungu Mare , Pișchinți , Romoșel , Vaidei
Mayor :	Mircea Pătrânjan ( PNL )
Postal address :	Str. Principală, no. 134 loc. Romos, jud. Hunedoara, RO-337410
Website :	www.romos.ro

Romos ( German  Rumes , Hungarian Romosz ) is a municipality in the Hunedoara district in Transylvania , Romania .

The place is also known by the German names Rumessdorf , Romos and Rams and the Hungarian Szászromosz .

Geographical location

Location of Romos in the Hunedoara district

The municipality of Romos is located in the south of the Transylvanian Basin north of the Șureanu Mountains ( Mühlbach Mountains ) in the so-called Unterwald of the Altland in the historic Brooser Stuhl . At Bach Romoş - a left tributary of the Mureş ( Mieresch ) - and the county road ( drum județean ) DJ 705G, about five kilometers south of the European route 68 , the place is about 12 kilometers east of the small town of Orăştie ( Broos ); the district capital Deva ( Diemrich ) is 39 kilometers west of Romos.

history

The place Romos was probably founded in the 12th century by the Transylvanian Saxons and first mentioned in 1206 under the name Rams , together with the two places at Alba Iulia Crapundorph and Karako (today Ighiu and Cricău ). It is very likely that the three places had something to do with the salt trade on the Mureș. The fact that the place was founded by Transylvanian Saxons is confirmed by the fact, documented in 1206, that the primi hospites regni , the first western invites of the Hungarian kingdom under Andrew II, were settlers who were called Saxones .

According to reports by JM Ackner (1856), N. Densușianu, G. Téglás u. a. archaeological finds were made on the area of ​​the site, which were assigned to the Bronze Age . Among the finds were a "golden plow" and other golden objects in the form of agricultural implements. A “bronze carriage” is in Vienna today . Furthermore, finds were made which were assigned to the Roman era .

The place is also known by the "Rumeser Student" - a student of the Brooser Gymnasium - who was captured by the Turks after the conquest of Mühlbach (at the beginning of the Turkish wars ). He wrote a description of Turkish customs and traditions. It is the first known book by a Transylvanian author.

Today the residents live mainly from cattle breeding (mainly cattle and sheep) and agriculture.

population

During the "transmigration" between 1734 and 1776 about 550 Landler from Upper Austria , Carinthia and Styria were settled in Rumes. That was one of the highest numbers of settled peasants in Transylvania.

At the census of 1850, 5187 people lived in the area of ​​today's municipality. 4653 of them were Romanians , four Hungarians , 291 Germans and 239 Roma . The highest population (5251) - and at the same time that of the Romanians (4896) and that of the Hungarians (19) - was reached in 1910. The highest number of Germans and Roma were counted in 1850. Furthermore, in 1910 19 and 2002 two identified themselves as Ukrainians , in 1910, 1930 and 1992 one each as a Serb and in 1956 one as a Slovak . In 2002 there were 2,855 people in the Romos community, 2,734 of whom were Romanians, eight Hungarians, 26 Germans, 80 Roma, two Ukrainians and five others.

After the revolution of 1989 about half of the Romanian Germans emigrated from Romos; In 2010 there were still 20 Romanian Germans living here.

Attractions

• The Protestant church, built on an elevation of the village at the beginning of the 13th century, was partially renovated in 2008–2009, most recently the roof of the tower was completely renewed.
• The Protestant rectory, built in the 17th century (with an underground bunker), is a listed building.
• The Orthodox Church, built in 1905.
• The Ethnographic Village Museum was established in 1978 by Ioan Rentea.

and display information about the image

Panoramic picture of Romo

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  View of Romos

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  Protestant church

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  Orthodox Church

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  The rumes at Romos

Personalities

• The "Rumeser Student" , (according to various sources) called Johannes Kloor or Christian Cloos according to oral tradition , was captured by the Turks in 1438 and abducted. Having escaped from Turkish slavery after twenty years, he wrote the famous treatise De ritiu et moribus Turcorum (“Experience of the Morals of the Turks”) in Rome . Printed in Urach under “Chronica and Description of the Turkey” in 1480, was also published and recommended by Luther in 1530 ; called the Turk's Book .
• Niculae Stăncioiu (1939–1995), born here, was a renowned cardiologist in Romania.

literature

• Gertrud Stephani-Klein : Rumes, a village in Transylvania. In: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter (Munich), 31/3, 1982, pp. 227–229.

Web links

Commons : Romos, Hunedoara  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Romos at ghidulprimariilor.ro
• Rumes at sevenbuerger.de
• Romos on jupiter.elte.hu (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
2. ^ Dictionary of the localities in Transylvania
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Paul Philippi : Land of Blessings? Questions to the history of Transylvania and its Saxons (= Transylvanian Archive. Vol. 39). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20048-0 .
4. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Romos, accessed January 29, 2011 (Romanian)
5. ↑ Image of the “bronze wagon” on the municipality's website, accessed on January 29, 2011 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ History on the web presentation of the community ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
8. ↑ Distribution of the settlers in Transylvania: (1734-1738 and 1752-1776) ( Memento of the original of July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Census, last updated November 2, 2008, p. 136 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.1 MB)
10. ↑ Rumeser local monograph, November 7, 2010 Siebenbürger.de, Newspaper
11. ↑ Kirchenburg Rumes / Romos ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF 
12. ↑ Rumes - Information: local foundation and heyday on sevenbuerger.de
13. ↑ Rumes at Projekt-Kirchenburgen.ro ( Memento from August 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ Fortified church in Rumes / Romos
15. ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)
16. ^ Helmut de Boor , Richard Newald: History of German literature from the beginnings to the present. Volume 1: Hans Rupprich : German literature from the late Middle Ages to the Baroque. The outgoing Middle Ages, humanism and renaissance. 1370-1520. Revised by Hedwig Heger. 2nd, revised edition. Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-37898-6 .
17. ↑ ^{a b} Personalities on the website of the community
18. ↑ Picture of the bust of Niculae Stăncioiu in Romos ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.