Săcueni

Săcueni
Zickelhid
Székelyhíd

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Screeching area

Circle :

Bihor

Coordinates :

47 ° 21 ' N , 22 ° 5' E Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '9 " N , 22 ° 5' 29" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

130 m

Area :

151.40 km²

Residents :

11,526 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

76 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

417435

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 59

License plate :

bra

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

city

Structure :

5 districts / cadastral communities: Cadea , Ciocaia , Cubulcut , Olosig , Sânnicolau de Munte

Mayor :

Csaba Béres ( UDMR )

Postal address :

Libertății street, no. 5
loc. Săcueni, jud. Bihor, RO-417435

Website :

www.sacueni.ro

Săcueni [ ˈsəkuenʲ ] ( German Zickelhid , Hungarian Székelyhíd for bridge of the Szekler ) is a town in the Bihor district in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of Săcueni in Bihor County

Săcueni is located in the Kreisch area on the edge of the Great Hungarian Plain and at its transition to the northwestern foothills of the Apuseni Mountains . The district capital Oradea is located about 35 kilometers south. The Romanian-Hungarian border runs just 7 km west of the city center. The Ier flows through the city .

history

The region of today's city has been populated since the Neolithic . Other archaeological finds come from the Iron , Bronze and Dacian ages . The Gepids and Avars settled here during the Great Migration . Around the year 1000 the Hungarians took possession of the area. The place was first mentioned in a document in 1217. In the first half of the 15th century (documented evidence in 1455) it received city rights. In the following time the relative importance of the place decreased. In the 16th and 17th centuries it belonged temporarily to the Ottoman Empire , then to Austria-Hungary . The fortifications were razed after the Treaty of Eisenburg in 1664. In the last decades of the Habsburg Monarchy, Székelyhíd / Săcueni was the seat of a chair district in Bihar County . As a result of the First World War , Săcueni came to Romania despite its Hungarian majority. As a result of the Second Vienna Arbitration , the place came back temporarily to Hungary from 1940 to 1944. After a referendum in 2003, Săcueni was declared a city again in 2004. Main branches of business are agriculture and livestock, food, metal and wood processing.

Golden Dacian bangle from the Săcueni area

Székelyhíd (bottom right) around 1782 (recording sheet of the Josephinische Landesaufnahme )

Székelyhíd (N 47 ° 21 '; E 39 ° 45') around 1892 (recording sheet of the Franzisco-Josephinische Landesaufnahme )

population

In 1880, 8706 people lived in the area of today's city, 7782 of them Hungarians . In 1930, of the 11,628 inhabitants at the time, 9319 identified themselves as Hungarians, 1203 as Romanians , 642 as Jews , 378 as Roma , 45 as Germans and 18 as Slovaks . In 1956 the number of Jews had dropped to 74. In the 2002 census 11,665 inhabitants were registered in Săcueni, including 7177 in the city proper and 4488 in the five incorporated towns. 9010 were Hungarians, 1747 Roma and 891 Romanians.

traffic

Săcueni is on the railway line from Oradea to Satu Mare . In the city, the branch line branches off to Zalau . The European route 671 runs through the city . A road border crossing leads from Săcueni to Hungary .