Suceava

Suceava
Suczawa
Szucsáva

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Bucovina

Circle :

Suceava

Coordinates :

47 ° 39 ' N , 26 ° 15' E Coordinates: 47 ° 38 '37 " N , 26 ° 15' 3" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

300 m

Area :

52.10 km²

Residents :

92,121 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

1,768 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

720224

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 30

License plate :

SV

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

Municipality

Mayor :

Ion Lungu ( PNL )

Postal address :

Vol. 1 May, no. 5A
Suceava, RO-720224

Website :

www.primariasv.ro

Suceava (red square) - Romania - Neighboring towns: Botoșani , Roman , Chernivtsi ( Ukraine )

Suceava [ suˈt͜ʃe̯ava ] ( German Suczawa , Sedschopff , Sotschen , Hungarian Szucsáva [ ˈsut͜ʃaːvɒ ], Ukrainian and Russian Сучава / Sutschawa , Polish Suczawa [ suˈt͜ʃava ]) is the capital of the Suceava district in Romania .

location

In northeast Romania, the city of Suceava is located in the southern half of Bukovina , northwest of the historical region of Moldova . On the river of the same name , the city is located at a junction of several railway lines such as Suceava – Gura Humorului , Tscherniwzi – Suceava and Suceava – Roman , as well as on the European roads E 58 and E 85 . The Ștefan cel Mare airport is located near the city .

Cityscape

Suceava is the center of today's Romanian Bukovina. It is home to a university founded in 1990 , several museums and an airport. The mechanical engineering, wood and paper sectors are represented among the industrial companies.

The townscape is shaped by the castle of the Vltava princes (15th century), the Mirăuți church (former coronation church, in the core around 1400), a church of the Georg monastery (1514/22; with wall paintings from 1527/34), the Demetrius Church (1534/35, bell tower 1561) and the Zamca monastery of the Armenian colony (1551, church in Moldovan tradition). Next to the fortress is the Muzeul Satului Bucovinean Museum of the Bukowina Village .

A modern landmark of the city is a colored 265 meter high chimney. It was originally intended to be part of a power station and is now part of a shopping center.

Surname

In his work Descriptio Moldavie , Dimitrie Cantemir traces the name back to Hungarian: Szűcsvár , meaning “castle / town of furriers ”. In doing so, he was probably referring to the 50-year-old work of another Moldovan chronicler, Grigore Ureche . In his unfinished work Letopisețul țărâi Moldovei, de când s-au descălecat țara și de cursul anilor și de viiața domnilor carea scrie de la Dragoş vodă până la Aron vodă (“Chronicle of Moldova, from the expansion of the country in the period of the zum Fürsten Aaron ”) the founding of the city Suceava to Hungarian furriers and gave the Magyar name with Szűcsség again. Szűcs (Kürschner) was derived from Romanian Suci and given the Bulgarian-Romanian ending -eavă , which corresponds to the Hungarian ending -ség . Freely translated into German, this corresponds to "Kürschner-Heim".

history

Suceava was first mentioned in the 14th century. From 1375 to 1565 it was the capital of the Principality of Moldova and from 1401 the seat of the Principality's Metropolitan. From 1774 / 1775–1918 the city belonged to the Habsburg Monarchy , as part of the Bukovina, or from 1867 to Austria-Hungary , from November 1918 to Romania. In the 1930 census, when the proportion of the German-speaking population had already fallen in favor of Romanian, 60.2% of the approximately 17,000 inhabitants of the city gave Romanian, 16.7% German, 15.4% Yiddish, 3.7% Ukrainian and 2.0% use Polish as their mother tongue.

Staufe wrote a poem about his hometown with the title "Sutschawa".

sons and daughters of the town

Petro Mohyla (1596–1647), Orthodox saint
Ludwig Adolf Staufe-Simiginowicz (1832–1897), teacher, first German-speaking poet in Bukovina
Meir Schapira (1887–1933), Hasidic rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva
Arnold Daghani (1909–1985), painter
Fritz Schajowicz (1911–1992), bone pathologist
Norman Manea (* 1936), Romanian-American writer
Vladimir Găitan (born 1947), actor
George Ostafi (1961–2019), Romanian-German painter
Marius Babias (* 1962), art critic
Liliana Gafencu (* 1975), rower
Dorin Goian (* 1980), soccer player
Lucian Goian (* 1983), football player
Ioan Dovalciuc (* 1984), bobsledder
Alina Văcariu (* 1984), model
Marius-Vasile Cozmiuc (* 1992), rower
Alin Alexandru Firfirică (* 1995), athlete