Solca

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Solca
Solka
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Solca (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Bucovina
Circle : Suceava
Coordinates : 47 ° 42 '  N , 25 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 41 '59 "  N , 25 ° 50' 15"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 490  m
Area : 64.63  km²
Residents : 2,188 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 34 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 725600
Telephone code : (+40) 02 30
License plate : SV
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : city
Mayor : Cornel-Trifan Țehaniuc ( PSD )
Postal address : Bogdan Voda Street, no. 4
loc. Solca, jud. Suceava, RO-725600

Solca ( German  Solka ) is a small town in the Suceava district in Romania .

location

Solca is located in Bukowina on the eastern edge of the Obcina Mare Mountains . The district capital Suceava is located about 35 km to the east.

history

Solca was first mentioned in a document in 1418 - at the time of the Moldovan prince Alexandru cel Bun . From 1612 to 1622, the Solca monastery was founded under Prince Ștefan Tomşa II . This acquired significant property in the area through princely donations. Numerous serfs belonged to his rule, including many gypsies . After the Austrians came to power in 1774/1775 and the Josephine reforms , the monastery was expropriated in 1785 and rededicated as a village church, and serfdom ended. From 1784 rock salt was mined in Solca. In 1796 a brewery was built, in 1801 a potash factory and in 1802 a brick factory. At the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, German settlers moved to the town.

After the First World War , Bukovina and with it Solca came to Romania. In 1926 the place was declared a city. In 1940, as a result of an agreement between the German Empire and Romania, most of the Bukowina Germans left Solca.

The most important branches of industry are agriculture and forestry.

population

In 1930 there were around 1750 residents in the area of ​​today's city, of which around 1000 were Romanians and 750 Germans . At the 2002 census there were 4,456 people living in Solca, among them 4408 Romanians, 33 Germans and 12 Roma . In 2007 - after Poieni-Solca was spun off - there were still 2644 people living in Solca.

traffic

Solca has no rail connection. There is regular bus service to Rădăuți , Câmpulung Moldovenesc and Gura Humorului .

Attractions

  • Solca Monastery (17th century)
  • Brewery (19th century)

Born in Solca

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
  2. ↑ Solca Monastery website , accessed July 28, 2009
  3. ↑ Franz Adolf Wickenhauser: Moldawa or contributions to a deed book for Moldavia and Bukovina . Jacob & Holzhausen. 1862
  4. ^ Karl Czoernig: Ethnography of the Austrian Monarchy . Imperial-Royal Court u. State printing. 1857. p. 43
  5. ↑ Dan Ghinea: Enciclopedia geografică a României: RZ. Editura Enciclopedică . 1998, p. 155
  6. ^ Map of the 1930 census , accessed July 28, 2009
  7. ↑ 2002 census , accessed July 28, 2009