Rușchița
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Rușchița Ruschkitza Ruszkica |
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 Romania
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| Historical region : | Banat | ||||
| Circle : | Caraș-Severin | ||||
| Municipality : | Rusca Montana | ||||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 38 ' N , 22 ° 25' E | ||||
| Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | ||||
| Residents : | 453 (2002) | ||||
| Postal code : | 327321 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+40) 02 55 | ||||
| License plate : | CS | ||||
| Structure and administration | |||||
| Community type : | Village | ||||
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Rușchița (German: Ruschkitza , Hungarian: Ruszkica ) is a village in Caraș-Severin County , Banat , Romania . The village of Rușchița belongs to the municipality of Rusca Montană .
Geographical location
Rușchița is located in the north of the Caraș-Severin County, on the border with the Timiș County , in the Poiana-Ruscă Mountains .
Neighboring places
| Tomeşti | Poieni | Vadu Dobri |
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Gura Bordului |
| Tincova | Zăvoi | Rusca Montana |
history
The first written mention of the place comes from the year 1803. Over the years different spellings of the place name appeared: 1888 Ruszkicza , 1913 Ruszkica , 1924 Ruşchița .
Istvan Ferenczy was the first to discover the marble deposits near Rușchița in 1828. He compared this white marble to Carrara marble . In 1883, the Banat engineer Johann Biener (1817–1900) began mining the Ruşchița marble deposits. In 1912 it was exported to 12 countries. The Vienna Bank Palace was built with marble from Ruşchița, as was the Budapest Parliament Building and the Parliament Palace in Bucharest . The eagle in the Oval Office of the White House is made of Ruşchița marble, the Milan Cathedral was restored with Ruşchița marble in the 1970s.
Population development
| census | Ethnicity | |||||||
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| year | Residents | Romanians | Hungary | German | Slovaks | |||
| 1880 | 608 | 108 | 37 | 160 | 303 | |||
| 1910 | 558 | 118 | 143 | 123 | 174 | |||
| 1941 | 402 | 137 | 28 | 117 | 120 | |||
| 1977 | 821 | 708 | 20th | 40 | 53 | |||
| 2002 | 453 | 402 | 14th | 28 | 9 | |||
Web links
- digi24.ro , The marble quarry in Rușchița.
- marmosim.ro , natural stones in Romania
- willypragher.blogspot.de , The Rușchița quarry
- worldwideromania.com , The Rușchița Quarry
- youtube.com , Rușchița quarry on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ fatornyosfalunk.com ( Memento from July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Transylvania localities
- ↑ marmosim.ro , marble in Rușchița
- ↑ worldwideromania.com ( Memento from June 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), The Rușchița marble quarry
- ↑ 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