Sichevița

Sichevița Sikewitza Szikesfalu, Szikevicza Sikevica
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Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Banat
Circle :	Caraș-Severin
Coordinates :	44 ° 42 '  N , 21 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 42 '0 "  N , 21 ° 52' 0"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Area :	105.70  km²
Residents :	2,732 (2014)
Population density :	26 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	327335
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 55
License plate :	CS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Sicheviţa, Brestelnic , Cameniţa , Carsie , Cracu Almaj , Cruşoviţa , Curmatura , Frăsiniş , Gornea , Liborajdea , Lucacevăţ , Martinovăţ , Ogaşu Podului , Streneac , Valea Oreviţa , Valea Ravensca , Valea Sicheviţei , Zanou and Zăsloane
Mayor :	Nicolae Kramer ( PSD )
Postal address :	No. 396 loc. Sichevița, jud. Caraș-Severin, RO- 327335

Location of Sichevița in the Caraș-Severin County

Sichevița on the Josephine land survey

Sichevița (German: Sikewitza , Hungarian: Szikesfalu, Szikevicza , Serbian: Sikevica ) is a municipality in the Caraș-Severin district , in the Banat region , in southwestern Romania . The municipality Sicheviţa includes the villages Brestelnic , Cameniţa , Carsie , Cracu Almaj , Cruşoviţa , Curmatura , Frăsiniş , Gornea , Liborajdea , Lucacevăţ , Martinovăţ , Ogaşu Podului , Streneac , Valea Oreviţa , Valea Ravensca , Valea Sicheviţei , Zanou and Zăsloane .

Geographical location

Sichevița is located in the south of the Caraș-Severin County, on the DJ 571 A county road, 29 km from Moldova Nouă and 201 km from Timișoara .

Neighboring places

Curmătura	Șopotu Nou	Ravensca
Moldova Nouă		Bigar
Crușovița	Gornea	Liubcova

history

Over the centuries different spellings of the place name appeared: 1690–1700 Szitthevicza , 1774 Sikevicza , 1785 Cschikowicz , 1808 Szikevicza , 1913 Szikesfalu , 1919 Sichevița .

The 19 villages of the Sichevița municipality are located in the Danube Defile , at the foot of the Almăj Mountains and the Locva Mountains . The village was first mentioned in a document in 1363 and is one of the oldest villages in the Danube Defilee.

Sikeviza is entered on the Josephine land survey of 1717 . After the Peace of Passarowitz (1718) the village was part of the Habsburg crown domain Temescher Banat .

In 1774, Sichevița was incorporated into the Wallachian-Illyrian Border Infantry Regiment No. 13 of the Banat Military Frontier . Each resident was allocated 750 stânjeni (1 stânjen = 3.8 square meters) for a house space.

After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867), when the Banat was annexed to the Kingdom of Hungary within the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary , the Banat military border remained subordinate to the Vienna Court War Council until it was dissolved in 1873 , only to be annexed to the Kingdom of Hungary .

The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 resulted in the Banat being divided into three parts , whereby Sichevița fell to the Kingdom of Romania .

The Sichevița watermills

There are a total of ten watermills on the area of ​​the Sichevița municipality. Like the Rudăria watermills, these are 100 years old and still in use. They can be considered the predecessors of the Kaplan turbine .

Population development

census		Ethnicity
year	Residents	Romanians	Hungary	German	Other
1880	2468	2404	6th	2	56
1910	3596	3458	17th	14th	107
1930	3775	3718	3	6th	48
1977	3355	3308	-	4th	43
2002	2732	2678	-	-	54

Web links

• ghidulprimariilor.ro , Sichevița
• ghiduri-turistice.info , The water mills of Sichevița

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
2. ↑ fatornyosfalunk.com ( Memento from July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Transylvanian place names
3. ↑ ghiduri-turistice.info , The water mills of Sichevița
4. ↑ motosudvestresita.wordpress.com , Sichevița
5. ↑ pressalert.ro , The water mills of Sichevița
6. ↑ kia.hu (PDF; 858 kB), E. Varga: Statistics of the number of inhabitants by ethnicity in the Caraș-Severin district according to censuses from 1880 - 2002