Suplac

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Suplac
Schöndorf
Küküllőszéplak
Suplac does not have a coat of arms
Suplac (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Mureș
Coordinates : 46 ° 24 '  N , 24 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 23 '43 "  N , 24 ° 31' 4"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 306  m
Area : 45.72  km²
Residents : 2,249 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 49 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 547580
Telephone code : (+40) 02 65
License plate : MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Suplac, Idrifaia , Laslău Mare , Laslău Mic , Vaidacuta
Mayor : Béla Szakács ( UDMR )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 238
loc. Suplac, jud. Mureș, RO-547580
Website :

Suplac (outdated Seplaca or Siplac ; German  Schöndorf , Hungarian Küküllőszéplak ) is a municipality in the Mureș County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

The place Suplac is also known under the Hungarian name Széplak .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Suplac in Mureș County

The municipality of Suplac is located in the Kokel Valley (Podișul Târnavelor) in the southern part of the Mureș County. On the river Târnava Mică (Little Kokel) , the county road (Drum județean) DJ 142 and the railway line Blaj – Târnăveni – Praid , the place Suplac is located 21 kilometers northeast of the city of Târnăveni (Saint Martin) and 38 kilometers south of the district capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) away.

The four incorporated villages are located between three and six kilometers from the community center.

history

The place Suplac was first mentioned in 1325. One of the most important noble families of the place was the Croatian Petrichevich-Horváth family . Archaeological finds are except for a coin that was found in Laslău Mic (Kleinlasseln) and is assigned to Roman times , and is currently in the coin collection of the Schäßburg mountain school , not recorded on the territory of the municipality. In Schöndorf , good cattle breeding and salt springs are noted at the beginning of the early modern period .

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged partly to the Dicsőszentmárton ( Târnăveni ) chair district and the villages of Laslău Mare and Laslău Mic to the Erzsébetváros ( Dumbrăveni ) chair district in Klein-Kokelburg County , then to the historic Târnava-Mică district and from 1950 to the present Mureş district .

In the municipality of Suplac, which once belonged to one of the wine-growing regions of Romania , no viticulture has been practiced for about two decades (as of 2018).

population

The population of the municipality of Suplac developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 3,260 1,579 910 542 229
1941 4.135 1,874 1,334 681 246
1977 3,420 1,340 1,425 536 119
1992 2,548 906 1,239 118 285
2002 2,369 904 1,092 15th 358
2011 2,249 783 1,136 6th 324 (Roma 263)

Since 1850 the highest number of inhabitants and that of the Romanian Germans were registered in the area of ​​today's municipality in 1941. The highest population of Romanians (1,947) was determined in 1956, that of Magyars (1,619) in 1910 and that of Roma (358) in 2002.

Attractions

  • In the community center of Suplac the Unitarian church , built in 1699, is a listed building, the reformed church built in 1840.
  • In the incorporated village of Idrifaia (Ederholz) the reformed church , built in the middle of the 18th century.
  • In the incorporated village of Laslău Mic (Kleinlasseln) the Protestant church.

  • Unitare Church in Suplac

  • Reformed Church in Suplac

  • School in Sulpac

Town twinning

According to its town sign, the village of Idrifaia has a partnership with:

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Arcanum Kézikönyvtár: Historical-administrative book of place names of Transylvania, Banat and Partium. Retrieved March 11, 2018 (Hungarian).
  3. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  4. ↑ Institute Of Archeology - Laslău Mic , accessed March 18, 2018 (Romanian).
  5. ^ Karl Gottlieb von Windisch: Geography of the Grand Duchy of Transylvania , Pressburg, 1790
  6. ↑ Web presentation of the municipality of Suplac , accessed on March 18, 2018 (Romanian).
  7. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian)
  8. ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian)
  9. ↑ Information on the Reformed Church in Suplac at biserici.org, accessed on March 18, 2018 (Romanian)
  10. ↑ Information on the Reformed Church in Idrifaia at biserici.org, accessed on March 18, 2018 (Romanian)
  11. ↑ Place name sign for the village of Idrifaia