Săndulești (Cluj)

Săndulești
Szind

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Cluj

Coordinates :

46 ° 35 ' N , 23 ° 43' E Coordinates: 46 ° 34 '49 " N , 23 ° 43' 21" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

454 m

Area :

22.48 km²

Residents :

1,798 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

80 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

407500

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 64

License plate :

CJ

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

local community

Structure :

Sănduleşti, Copăceni

Mayor :

Călin Stelian Fărgaciu ( PSD )

Postal address :

Str. Principală, no. 169
loc. Sănduleşti, jud. Cluj, RO-407500

Website :

comunasandulesti.wordpress.com

Săndulești [ ˈsənduleʃtʲ ] (outdated Sînd or Sind ; Hungarian Szind ) is a municipality in Cluj County , in Transylvania , Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the Sănduleşti municipality in Cluj County

The municipality of Sănduleşti is located in the west of the Transylvanian Basin, northeast of the Trascău Mountains ( Munții Trascăului ). On the stream of the same name (Râul Sănduleşti) - a left tributary of the Arieş - and on the district road (Drum județean) DJ 103G, the place Sănduleşti is six kilometers west of the city of Turda (Thorenburg) . The district capital Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) is about 33 kilometers north.

South of the community center is the lake called Tăul Mare , a smaller lake called Tăul Mic that dried up in the 1950s. The Romanian A3 motorway also runs on the area of the municipality .

history

The place Sănduleşti was first mentioned in 1176. In the Middle Ages the place was inhabited by Romanians and Magyars. The limestone quarries in the area of the place were already operated by the Romans . Archaeological finds on the area, called Pietrele rotate by the locals, point to a settlement of the place until early history , at Piatra tăită in the 2nd / 3rd centuries. Century BC . In Pietrele rotate a was hill grave the early history associated.

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's community belonged to the chair district Torda in the County Torda-Aranyos , then the historic district of Cluj and from 1950 to today's Cluj County at.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	1.002	799	156	-	47
1941	1,887	1,633	165	1	58
1966	2,362	2.145	182	1	34
2002	1,892	1,790	81	-	21st
2011	1,798	1,647	67	-	84 (Roma 4)

Since 1850 the highest number of inhabitants and also that of the Romanians in 1966 have been determined in the area of today's municipality. The highest population of the Magyars (241) was registered in 1880, that of the Roma (46) in 1850 and that of the Romanian Germans (18) in 1890.

Attractions

The orthodox stone church with wooden tower Sf. Arhanghel Mihail și Gavriil and the Unitarian Church, both built in the 15th century, are listed buildings.
Sport fishing is practiced on Lake Tăul Mare .