Târnava (Sibiu)

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Târnava
United Probstdorf
Nagyekemező
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Târnava (Sibiu) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Sibiu
Coordinates : 46 ° 8 '  N , 24 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 8 '28 "  N , 24 ° 17' 39"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Area : 29.38  km²
Residents : 2,858 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 97 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 557275
Telephone code : (+40) 02 69
License plate : SB
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Târnava, Colonia Târnava
Mayor : Norbert-Jacint Pleiner ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. 1 Decembrie 1918, no. 5
loc. Târnava, jud. Sibiu, RO-557275
Website :

Târnava or Tîrnava [ tɨrˈnawa ] (outdated Proştea Mare ; German  Großprobstdorf , Hungarian Nagyekemező ) is a municipality in the Sibiu district in Transylvania , Romania .

location

Official entrance sign with the Romanian and German place names
Groß-Probstdorf seen from the south. In the foreground the railway line.

The village is located five kilometers southwest of Mediaș ( Mediasch ) in the northern part of the Sibiu district, on the Târnava Mare ( Great Kokel ) river.

history

In 1331 the village was first mentioned as Ekeemeza Maior . It is assumed that the settlement was founded much earlier - ie before the settlement of the Transylvanian Saxons - probably by Szeklers . At first, Groß-Probstdorf was part of the Sibiu province of “ Seven Chairs ” before it was placed under the Mediasch chair at the end of the 18th century .

The vast majority of the German-speaking population emigrated to Germany as early as the 1960s, but especially after the fall of the Wall in 1989 . They founded a hometown community (HOG) here.

Infrastructure

traffic

The community is on the national road DN 14. In addition, the place is connected to the CFR railway network with a stop on the electrified, international line 300 .

Education, economy and social

The existence of a school in Groß-Probstdorf is documented as early as 1567. Today the place has a kindergarten, a primary school and a lyceum.

The majority of the population is employed in the fields of agriculture, fruit growing, livestock, trade and small industry.

Environmental situation

Due to its proximity to the neighboring Copşa Mică ( Klein-Kopisch ), where there is a carbon black factory and a non-ferrous metal factory , which were in a catastrophic state, especially in the 1980s, the environment in Târnava is still suffering considerably.

Attractions

  • Evangelical Church, late Gothic. The original altar (late 15th / early 16th century) has been in the Sibiu Brukenthal Museum since the 1960s .
  • Heroes' memorial for the fallen of the Second World War (erected in 1945)

  • Mayor's office

  • Evangelical church, bell tower and school in Târnava

  • Interior of the Protestant church

  • Churches in Târnava

Personalities

  • Michael Ambrosi sen. (1862–1933), Transylvanian viticulture pioneer, founder of the Ambrosi nursery
  • Michael Ambrosi jun. (1880–1940), author of specialist viticulture books

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
  2. ^ Dictionary of the localities in Transylvania
  3. ↑ a b History of Großprobstdorf on the website of the HOG Großprobstdorf ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hog-grossprobstdorf.de
  4. ^ Romanian website with data table about Târnava
  5. ↑ a b HOG information / history, at sevenbuerger.de