Siret (place)

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Siret
Sereth
Siret coat of arms (place)
Siret (location) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Bucovina
Circle : Suceava
Coordinates : 47 ° 57 '  N , 26 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 57 '0 "  N , 26 ° 3' 36"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 324  m
Area : 43.40  km²
Residents : 7,976 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 184 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 725500
Telephone code : (+40) 02 30
License plate : SV
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : city
Structure : 2 districts / cadastral communities: Mănăstioara , Pădureni
Mayor : Adrian Popoiu ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. 28 Noiembrie, no. 1
loc. Siret, jud. Suceava, RO-725500
Website :

Siret ( German  Sereth , Polish Seret ) is a small town in the district of Suceava in the Romanian south Bukowina . It is located on the river of the same name , which flows here from the Ukraine to Romanian territory.

history

The city was first mentioned in a document on July 24, 1340, making it the earliest documented location in the historical Vltava region . In the Middle Ages , the city was of greater administrative importance in the Principality of Moldova . As part of northern Moldau, Sereth became part of Austria in 1774 , later part of the crown land of Bukovina .

The term " Sereter Hasidim " for a group of Charedim within ultra-orthodox Judaism goes back to a movement that arose in and around the city between 1870 and 1940.

Today Sereth as a border town to Ukraine is important as a customs and border crossing station for road traffic.

Twin cities

Siret has been a member of the European city association Douzelage since 2010 .

Personalities

  • Vasile Andru (* 1942), Romanian writer, attended secondary school in Sereth
  • Elisabeth Axmann (1926–2015), a Romanian-German writer, born in Sereth
  • Marian Simion Florea (1847-1907), Romanian theologian and ethnographer, was a priest in Sereth from 1877 to 1883
  • Edgar Hilsenrath (1926–2018), German writer, lived on the run from the Nazis from 1938 to 1941 with his grandparents in Sereth
  • Leo Katz (1892–1954), Austrian writer, born in Sereth
  • Alfred Kohlruß (1875–1935), member of the Romanian Parliament
  • Elisabeta Lipă (* 1964), Romanian rower (four times Olympic champion), born in Sereth
  • Friedrich Poppenberger (1904–1992), lawyer and journalist, born in Sereth

Web links

Commons : Siret  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
  2. ↑ Vasile Andrus (Vasile Andrucovici) web representation ( Memento from August 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Information on Marian Simion Florea from crestinortodox.ro accessed on July 16, 2016 (Romanian)