Tăşnad

Tăşnad (outdated Tăşnadu or Tăşnad-Blaja ; German Trestenburg , Hungarian Tasnád ) is a small town in the Satu Mare district in northwestern Romania .

The place is also among the German names Tress Mountain , Tress castle and Trestendorf known.

Geographical location

Tăşnad is located in the historical Kreisch area on the eastern edge of the Great Hungarian Plain in the foothills of the Dealurile de Vest in the south of the Satu Mare district. At Drum na etwaional 1F and the Carei – Zalau railway line , the place is about 60 kilometers southwest of the district capital Satu Mare (Sathmar) .

history

The place Tăşnad was first mentioned in 1246. Finds from the Neolithic Körös , Pișcolt and Baden cultures , as well as finds from the late Iron Age and the Migration Period ( Sântana de Mureș / Cherniachov ) have been handed down from the Tăşnad-Sere site in Tăşnad-Băi . Some of them are exhibited in the small ethnographic museum in Tăşnad-Băi.

In the Kingdom of Hungary the place belonged to the Tasnád chair district in the historical Szilágy county . He then came to the historical Sălaj County and from 1950 to today's Satu Mare County.

population

In 2011 the city had 8,631 inhabitants. 4269 of them were Romanians , 3003 Magyars , 952 were Roma , 66 Romanian Germans and some belonged to other ethnic groups. The Roma live mainly on the eastern outskirts on the road to Zalau in a slum without sanitary facilities.

Attractions

The city has an Orthodox, Catholic, Greek Catholic and Reformed church. The Reformed Church, a late Gothic building, was taken over by the Reformed in the 16th century; Badly damaged by the Turks in 1660.
City museum with exhibitions on ethnography and city history
Tăşnad Beach Ethnographic Museum in a traditional farmhouse
The hot springs have been used for therapeutic purposes since the 1970s (Tăşnad beach). The thermal bath is being expanded with EU funds. During construction work, archaeological finds from the Neolithic and the Migration Period were made here.