Tăureni (Mureș)

Tăureni Mezőzáh
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Transylvania
Circle :	Mureș
Coordinates :	46 ° 35 '  N , 24 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 34 '48 "  N , 24 ° 5' 10"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	299  m
Area :	20.71  km²
Residents :	989 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	48 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	547600
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 65
License plate :	MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Tăureni, Fânațe , Moara de Jos
Mayor :	Ovidiu-Petru Oltean ( PSD )
Postal address :	Str. Principală nr. 256 loc. Tăureni, jud. Mureș, RO-547600
Website :	www.primariataureni.ro
Others
City Festival :	annually in August "Festivalul Peştelui" (fishing festival)

Tăureni [ təuˈrenʲ ] ( Hungarian Mezőtóhát or Tóhát ) is a municipality in the Mureș County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Tăureni in Mureș County

Reservoir near Tăureni

The municipality of Tăureni is located in the Transylvanian Heath (Câmpia Transilvaniei) - part of the Transylvanian Basin - in the west of the Mureș district on the Pârâul de Câmpie, a right tributary of the Mureș (Mieresch) . On the county road (Drum județean) DJ 151 and the single-track 94 km long railway line Luduş – Măgheruş guieu (5 km on Tăurenis municipality) is the place Tăureni 14 kilometers north of the small town Luduş (Ludasch) and about 60 kilometers west of the district capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) away.

history

The place Tăureni was first mentioned in a document in 1454, was a Romanian serf village in the Middle Ages and belonged to the Gieresch manor . Most of the Magyars in the community center are descendants of Reformed petty aristocrats.

In the Kingdom of Hungary , the places of today's municipality belonged to the Marosludas chair district in the Torda-Aranyos County and then to the historical Mureș County and, from 1950, today's Mureș County.

Not all households in the municipality are connected to the approximately 8.5 kilometers long drinking water network; there is no sewage network . Around 270 households are connected to the community's 22-kilometer gas network. There is a furniture factory and two flour mills in the community .

population

The population of the municipality of Tăureni developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	822	753	8th	1	60
1920	1,171	887	229	-	55
1966	1,943	1,872	60	-	11
2002	1,049	657	19th	-	73
2011	989	813	13	-	163

Since 1850, the highest number of inhabitants and that of Romanians in 1966 have been determined in the area of ​​today's municipality. The highest number of Magyars was registered in 1920, that of Roma (140) in 2011 and that of Romanian Germans (17) in 1890.

The main occupation of the community population is agriculture and livestock.

Attractions

• Apart from the two reservoirs, about 155 hectares in size, which are used for fishing and as a recreation area, there are no noteworthy sights in the municipality of Tăureni.

Web links

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

• The municipality of Tăureni at ghidulprimariilor.ro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
2. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
3. ↑ Information on the website of the municipality of Tăureni , accessed on May 20, 2019 (Romanian).
4. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian).