Secusigiu

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Secusigiu
Sekeschut
Székesút
Секусић
Secusigiu coat of arms
Secusigiu (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Banat
Circle : Arad
Coordinates : 46 ° 5 '  N , 20 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 5 '16 "  N , 20 ° 59' 3"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Area : 172  km²
Residents : 5,509 (2011)
Population density : 32 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 317285
Telephone code : (+40) 02 57
License plate : AR
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Secusigiu, Munar , Satu Mare and Sânpetru German
Mayor : Ilie Cheșa ( PNL )
Postal address : Strada Principală, no. 275
loc. Secusigiu, jud. Arad, RO-317285
Website :
Location of Secusigiu in Arad County

Secusigiu ( German  Sekeschut , Hungarian Székesút , Serbian - Cyrillic Секусић ) is a municipality in the Arad District , Banat , Romania . The municipality of Secusigiu includes the villages Munar , Satu Mare and Sânpetru German .

Geographical location

Secusigiu is located in the Marosch Valley, on the DJ682 county road that connects Arad with Sânnicolau Mare and on the railway line with the same endpoints. Secusigiu is located on the northern edge of the Banat Heath, close to the border with Timiș County .

Neighboring places

Semlac Munar Sânpetru German
Șeitin Neighboring communities Mailat
Periam Satu Mare Sânpetru Mic

history

The first settlement in the area of ​​today's Secusigiu commune was built by Counts Szekely, Szapary and Almassy for serf farm workers. This first settlement was flooded and destroyed by the floods of the Marosch. After the Aranka Canal was built, a new settlement was built. But this was also destroyed by the flood. In 1776 a settlement plan for a village on a high point of the Marosch lowlands was approved. The place was named Székesút. In 1808 German farmers and craftsmen from the surrounding villages were settled in Székesút. The settlement with Germans took place at the suggestion of Emperor Joseph II , who saw the poor condition of the village and the fields on his Banat trip in 1786 and wanted this unfortunate situation to be remedied. Until 1920 the official place name was Székesút. Székesút belonged to Temes County . In 1957 the village became part of the Arad Rayon, Banat region. Since 1968 the municipality has belonged to the Arad district.

On June 4, 1920, the Banat was divided into three parts as a result of the Treaty of Trianon . The largest, eastern part, to which Secusigiu also belonged, fell to the Kingdom of Romania .

As a result of the Waffen-SS Agreement of May 12, 1943 between the Antonescu government and Hitler's Germany , all men of German origin who were conscripted into the German army. The Germans from Romania had to pay for this after Romania switched sides on August 23, 1944. Before the end of the war, in January 1945, all ethnic German women between the ages of 18 and 30 and men between the ages of 16 and 45 were deported to the Soviet Union for reconstruction work .

The Land Reform Act of March 23, 1945 , which provided for the expropriation of German farmers in Romania, deprived the rural population of their livelihoods. The expropriated land was distributed to smallholders, farm workers and colonists from other parts of the country. The collectivization of agriculture was initiated in the early 1950s .

The nationalization law of June 11, 1948 , which provided for the nationalization of all industrial and commercial enterprises, banks and insurance companies, resulted in the expropriation of all commercial enterprises.

Tourist attractions in the immediate vicinity of Secusigiu are: the Bezdin Monastery , the Hodoș-Bodrog Monastery and the Great Gravel (Prundul Mare) as part of the Marosch-Auen Nature Park .

Catholic Church

The Catholic church of the Sekeschut parish was built in the years 1838-1840 and in 1843 Anton Dangl from Arad delivered a small organ. This instrument is a small mechanical positive with 4 registers , a piercing mechanism and a short octave . In the lower part of the housing there is a wedge bellows with a pump lever . On the bung of the wind chest there is a vignette with the name of the builder: “Anton Dangl, bürgl. Organ and instrument maker in Arad 1843 ”.

Demographics

The population development of the municipality of Secusigiu with the associated villages:

census Ethnicity
year Residents Romanians Hungary German Other
1880 7424 2838 291 3408 887
1910 7197 2374 718 2759 1346
1930 7342 2487 823 2726 1306
1977 6218 3364 703 1322 829
2002 5838 4811 411 82 534

See also

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ citypopulation.de , 2011 census
  2. ↑ Elke Hoffmann, Peter-Dietmar Leber and Walter Wolf : The Banat and the Banat Swabians. Volume 5. Cities and Villages , Media Group Universal Grafische Betriebe München GmbH, Munich, 2011, 670 pages, ISBN 3-922979-63-7
  3. ↑ banater-aktualitaet.de , Anton Zollner: Through German villages that have been in the Banat
  4. ↑ edition-musik-suedost.de , Franz Metz: Sekeschut
  5. ↑ kia.hu , (PDF; 784 kB) E. Varga: Statistics of the population by ethnic group in the Arad district according to censuses from 1880-2002