Sânpaul (Mureș)

Sânpaul old spelling Sînpaul [ ˈsɨnpaul ] ( German Paulsdorf or Palesdorf , Hungarian Kerelőszentpál ) is a municipality in the Mureș district in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Sânpaul in Mureș County

The municipality of Sânpaul is located in the north of the Kokel Valley (Podișul Târnavelor) in the southwestern part of the Mureș County. On the upper reaches of the Mureș (Mieresch) , the national road DN15 - here part of the European route 60 - and the railway line Alba Iulia – Târgu Mureș , the place Sânpaul is located about halfway between the small towns of Iernut (Radnuten) and Ungheni (Nyarad River) and 21 Kilometers southwest of the district capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) .

The four incorporated villages are about two to six kilometers from the community center.

history

The place Sânpaul was first mentioned in 1332. In 1610 the Hungarian aristocratic Haller family acquired the place and built a country house here. On the area of Sânpauls, called Fântâna Sărată by the locals , a burial site made of stone slabs from the Bronze Age was found in addition to archaeological objects from the Roman to the Neolithic .

Furthermore, it was on the hill Dealul Pietro or Dealul Stanii called a hillside grave assigned to the Bronze Age. Further settlement remnants north of the village on the Homorodul Mare stream indicate that the place was settled . Numerous finds from Roman times from the community center were distributed to several cities in Romania and to Budapest . In the area of Sânpaul, salt was not only extracted in Roman times, but probably since prehistory .

On the Kapellenberg there is a family crypt of the Hungarian aristocratic Haller family .

In the incorporated village of Valea Izvoarelor (Bessen) , at Teleacul Mic , archaeological finds of a settlement dating back to the 1st century BC were found. Chr. And La Măzărişte point in the 4th century, made.

In the Kingdom of Hungary , the incorporated villages of Sânmărghita (Hungarian Mezőszentmargita ) and Dileu Nou (Hungarian Magyardellő ) belonged to the Marosludas ( Luduș ) district in Torda-Aranyos County and the rest of the villages to the Radnót ( Iernut ) district in Klein-Kokelburg County . Subsequently, the villages belonged to the historical districts of Târnava-Mică , Mureş and Odorhei , and from 1950 to the present-day Mureş district.

population

The population of the municipality of Sânpaul developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	2,561	1,275	1,031	1	254
1941	3,716	1,647	1,690	7th	372
1977	4.177	1,806	1,946	4th	421
2002	4.016	1,415	1,574	2	1,025
2011	4.233	1,309	1,466	-	1,458 (Roma 1,308)

The highest number of inhabitants has been registered in the area of today's municipality since 1850 and that of the Roma in 2011. The highest population of the Magyars (2,044) was determined in 1966, that of the Romanians in 1977 and that of the Romanian Germans (17) in 1900.

Attractions

In the community center, the Roman Catholic Church , built in the 14th century and rebuilt in the 18th, the ruins of the Haller mansion and property, built in the 17th century, and the granary built in the 18th century are listed as historical monuments. Furthermore, a Roman road is assigned to the 2nd or 3rd century.
In the incorporated village of Chirileu (Laußen) the bust of Vasile Moldovan are under monument protection and a Roman road is noted here.
In the incorporated village of Dileu Nou the reformed church, built in 1908.
In the incorporated village of Sânmărghita, the wooden church Sfinții Arhangheli , built in the 18th century, is a listed building.