Secu (Caraș-Severin)
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Secu Sekul Szék, Kemenceszék |
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 Romania
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| Historical region : | Banat | ||||
| Circle : | Caraș-Severin | ||||
| Municipality : | Reșița | ||||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 16 ' N , 21 ° 59' E | ||||
| Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | ||||
| Residents : | 485 (2002) | ||||
| Postal code : | 320005 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+40) 02 55 | ||||
| License plate : | CS | ||||
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| Community type : | Village | ||||
Secu (also Secul , German Sekul , Hungarian Szék or Kemenceszék ) is a place in the Caraș-Severin County , Banat , Romania .
location
The place belongs administratively to the city of Reșița ( Reschitz ). Sekul is a small mountain village about 5 kilometers southeast of the city of Reschitz, on the northern edge of the Anina and the foothills of the Semenic Mountains .
Neighboring places
| Reșița | Târnova | Râul Alb |
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| Cuptoare | Semenic Mountains | Văliug |
history
In 1795, hard coal was discovered in the Sekuler area (on the Sekuler Berg), near the neighboring village of Cuptoare ( Kuptoare ) . A few years later, when these coal deposits began to be extracted, the Sekul colony was founded here. When it was founded, the colony consisted of a few, makeshift huts. The first settlers were miners from the former Upper Hungary , now Slovakia .
The first tenant of the Sekuler colliery was Georg Herglotz from Reschitza , who opened the “ Johann Nepomuk ” and “ Heiliger Georg ” tunnels in the “Râul Alb” valley. Georg Herglotz can therefore be seen as the founder of the Sekul mining settlement. The mountain, at the foot of which the coal mine was built, has kept its name to the present day.
The settlement was gradually enlarged, with more miners from the Spis region (Slovakia), but also from Austrian Styria and South Tyrol .
When the mine later became the property of the Wiener StEG-Gesellschaft , they built uniform houses with 2 rooms each for their workers. In 1870 the StEG distributed "places" (land) to well-earned, older miners, on which they then built their own houses.
In 1862 the mining settlement of Sekul was merged with the neighboring village of Kuptoare into one administrative unit: "Kuptore-Szekul", in Hungarian.
The village was renamed Secul (later Secu) in 1918 after the First World War and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary with the transition of the Banat region to Romania.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Sekul - banaterra.eu , Sekul