Țapu

Țapu
Abtsdorf
Csicsóholdvilág

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Sibiu

Municipality :

Micasasa

Coordinates :

46 ° 4 ' N , 24 ° 5' E Coordinates: 46 ° 4 '24 " N , 24 ° 5' 26" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

299 m

Residents :

772 (2002)

Postal code :

557147

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 69

License plate :

SB

Structure and administration

Community type :

Village

Țapu [ ˈtsapu ] ( German Abtsdorf , Hungarian Csicsóholdvilág ) is a village in the Sibiu district in Transylvania ( Romania ). It is part of the Micăsasa Municipality ( Fig Village ).

Geographical location

Țapu in the Josephine land survey from 1767 to 1773

Țapu is located in the west of the Transylvanian Basin , in the Kokeltal on the Soroștin stream , a left tributary of the Târnava Mare ( Great Kokel ). The village is located on the DJ 106B county road ( drum județean ) about three kilometers southwest of the community center.

history

The place Țapu was first mentioned in a document in 1309. As an abbey village Abtsdorf belonged under King Charles Robert to Egresch ( Igris ), later to Thunder market ( Mănărade ). At the end of the 15th century under the Hungarian King Hunyadi , the residents were suppressed from then on, so that they left their homes and tried to flee. After their conditions worsened, Voivode Stephan Batori forbids collecting taxes per farm. In 1495 King Vladislav II forbade the county nobility to collect taxes in Abtsdorf as well. He instructs the voivodes to take the abbey properties under his protection. In the same year the Seven Chairs brought a lawsuit against the Abbot of Egresch , because he intended to introduce the “Ninth”, and the abbey is dissolved. King Vladislav II protected the Saxons as the basic force of Transylvania.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	806	374	19th	302	111
1900	1,080	695	13	372	-
1930	1,232	579	15th	506	132
1977	1,150	743	48	358	1
1992	815	648	36	129	2
2002	772	710	38	21st	3

Since 1850, the highest population of the village and at the same time that of Romanian Germans and Roma (127) was determined in 1930. The highest number of Romanians (792) was counted in 1966 and that of Magyars in 1977. Furthermore, a Slovak was registered in 1930 .

Attractions

The Protestant church, built in the 14th century and expanded into a fortified church with an oval six meter high defensive wall in the 16th, is a listed building. In the west of the fortified church stands the three-storey gate tower. The defensive wall has two rows of shooting openings, the battlements and the storerooms inside the fortified church were removed.