Unguraș

Unguras
Schlosswall
Bálványosváralja

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Cluj

Coordinates :

47 ° 7 ' N , 24 ° 3' E Coordinates: 47 ° 6 '41 " N , 24 ° 3' 2" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

281 m

Area :

64.13 km²

Residents :

2,777 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

43 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

407570

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 64

License plate :

CJ

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

local community

Structure :

Unguraș, Batin , Daroț , Sicfa , Valea Ungurașului

Mayor :

Ildiko Mureșan ( UDMR )

Postal address :

Str. Principală, no. 486
loc. Unguraș, jud. Cluj, RO-407570

Unguraș [ unguˈraʃ ] ( German castle wall , Hungarian Bálványosváralja ) is a municipality in the Cluj County , in Transylvania , Romania . The place is also known by the Hungarian name Váralja , which is preferred by the local population.

Geographical location

Location of the Unguraş municipality in Cluj County

The municipality of Unguraș is located in the Transylvanian Basin in the northeast of the Cluj County. The community center is located on the district road (Drum județean) DJ 161D, 18 kilometers east of the town of Dej (Deesch) and around 70 kilometers northeast of the district capital of Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) .

history

The place Unguraş was mentioned in a document in 1269. According to J. Ackner , JF Niegebauer and others, archaeological finds on the site point to the late Bronze Age . According to I. Marțian , finds in the incorporated village of Batin (Battendorf) , near Dealul Cetății or La Cetățele , indicate that the region was settled in prehistory .

After the Mongol storm of 1241, the Bálványos Castle ( ⊙ ) was built on the area of today's community center, near which a Hungarian settlement, today's village Unguraș, was built. In the Middle Ages, several Saxon , Hungarian and Romanian villages belonged to the domain of the castle . 47.104861111111 24.069138888889

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged to the Dés chair district in the Szolnok-Doboka County , then to the historical Someș district and, from 1950, to today's Cluj district.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	2,450	1,217	1,062	-	171
1920	2,755	1,338	1,335	1	81
1966	4.131	2.158	1,972	-	1
2002	3,093	1,131	1,850	1	111
2011	2,777	992	1,707	2	76 (Roma 41)

Since 1850 the highest number of inhabitants and that of the Romanians in 1966 have been determined in the area of today's municipality. The highest population of the Magyars (2095) in 1977, that of the Roma (116) in 1850 and that of the Romanian Germans (68) was registered in 1910. In some surveys, up to three Ukrainians were registered.

Attractions

The ruins of Bálványos Castle in Unguraș, built around the 14th century, are listed as historical monuments. After the possession of the Transylvanian princes, it came into the possession of the Moldovan prince Petru Rareș in the 16th century . In 1536 Georg Martinuzzi had the new castle in Gherla ( new castle ) built using stones from the castle .

In the community center the reformed church , which was built according to different statements in the 14th or 15th century, is a listed building.

The Orthodox Church in the community center, built around 1800.

reformed Church
Orthodox Church

Personalities

Miklós Misztótfalusi Kis (1650–1702), printer and scholar, lived here.
Mihály Fekete (1820–1871), poet and educator

Web links

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

Unguraș at ghidulprimariilor.ro
Unguraș on the Cluj County Council website

Individual evidence

↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
↑ Unguraș at arcanum.hu , accessed on March 29, 2020.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
↑ Institute Of Archeology - Unguraș accessed on September 21, 2017 (Romanian)
^ Institute Of Archeology - Batin , accessed September 21, 2017 (Romanian).
↑ ^a ^b ^c List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (Romanian; PDF; 12.7 MB)
↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (Hungarian; PDF; 1 MB)
↑ Information on the Orthodox Church in Unguraș from biserici.org accessed on September 24, 2017 (Romanian)
↑ Information on Mihály Fekete at mek.oszk.hu accessed on September 18, 2017 (Hungarian)

[VZ2011-1] 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)

[2] Unguraș at arcanum.hu , accessed on March 29, 2020.

[HHGS-3] Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .

[4] Institute Of Archeology - Unguraș accessed on September 21, 2017 (Romanian)

[5] Institute Of Archeology - Batin , accessed September 21, 2017 (Romanian).

[rokm-6] List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (Romanian; PDF; 12.7 MB)

[7] Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (Hungarian; PDF; 1 MB)

[8] Information on the Orthodox Church in Unguraș from biserici.org accessed on September 24, 2017 (Romanian)

[9] Information on Mihály Fekete at mek.oszk.hu accessed on September 18, 2017 (Hungarian)