Sărățeni (Mureș)

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Sărățeni
Sóvárad
Sărățeni (Mureș) coat of arms
Sărățeni (Mureș) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Mureș
Coordinates : 46 ° 34 '  N , 25 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 33 '44 "  N , 25 ° 0' 32"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 421  m
Area : 37.15  km²
Residents : 1,608 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 43 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 545504
Telephone code : (+40) 02 65
License plate : MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Sărățeni
Mayor : Csaba Biró ( UDMR )
Postal address : Str. Pricipală nr. 15
loc. Sărățeni, jud. Mureș, RO-545504
Website :

Sarateni [ sərətzenʲ ] (deprecated Sóvárad , Sărata or Oradia Sărata ; Hungarian Sóvárad ) is a commune in Mureş County , in the region of Transylvania in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Sărățeni in Mureș County

Sărățeni is located in the Transylvanian Basin north of the Kokel Highlands (Podișul Târnavelor) in the east of the Mureș district. On the upper reaches of the Târnava Mică (Little Kokel) , and the national road Drum național 13A , the place Sărățeni is between the hills Bekecs ( 1079  m ) in the north and the Siklod ( 1025  m ) in the south, six kilometers from the small town of Sovata and about 55 Kilometers (35 km as the crow flies) east of the district capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) .

history

The place Sărățeni, a Szekler village , was first mentioned in 1332.

Settlement of the place is dated to Roman times after an archaeological find of a Roman fort . Numerous archaeological finds from Sărățeni can be seen in several museums in Romania.

In the register of historical monuments of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Ministerul Culturii și Patrimoniului Național) west of Sărățeni, called Cetatea lui Csombod by the locals , remains of a castle from the Bronze Age are noted.

At the time of the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged partly to the Régen alsó ("sub-rain") district and partly to the Nyáradszereda district in the Maros-Torda County, then to the historical Mureş district and from 1950 to the Mureş district of today.

The place Sărățeni has been an independent municipality since 2004; was until then part of the nearby small town of Sovata.

population

The population in Sărățeni developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 1,390 106 1,267 - 17th
1930 1,760 32 1,552 2 175
2002 1,627 16 1,534 2 75
2011 1,608 24 1,326 - 258

Since 1850 the highest number of inhabitants and that of the Magyars (1,946) was determined in the area of ​​the place Sărățeni in 1910. The highest number of Roma (237) was registered in 2011, that of Romanians in 1850 and that of Romanian Germans in 1930 and 2002.

Attractions

  • The reformed church and its bell tower, built in the 15th century and renewed in 1766, are under monument protection.

Personalities

  • László Király (* 1943), poet and writer

Web links

Commons : Sărățeni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Information from the Sărățeni Municipal Council. (PDF; 31.4 MB) Retrieved October 6, 2019 (Romanian).
  3. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  4. ↑ Institute Of Archeology - Sarateni , accessed on October 6, 2019 (Romanian).
  5. ↑ a b List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture , updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian).
  6. ↑ Information from Law No. 84 of 2004, accessed from lege5.ro on October 6, 2019 (Romanian).
  7. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian).
  8. ↑ Information on the Reformed Church in Sărățeni at biserici.org, accessed on October 6, 2018 (Romanian).
  9. ↑ Information on László Király from irodalom.org accessed on October 4, 2019 (Hungarian).