Unirea (Alba)

Unirea (outdated Vințu de Sus ; German Oberwinz , Hungarian Felvinc ) is a Romanian municipality in the Alba district in Transylvania . Is community based Unirea I .

The place Unirea is also under the outdated Romanian names Felvinț and Vinț ; the German Ober-Weinsdorf and Winzendorf ; known to the Hungarian Aranyosvinc and Vinc .

Geographical location

Location of the Unirea municipality in the Alba district

The municipality of Unirea is located in the north of the Alba district on the Unirea stream of the same name - a right tributary of the Mureș (Mieresch) - in the west of the Transylvanian Basin . At Drum național 1 and the Alba Iulia – Târgu Mureș railway line , Unirea is 4 kilometers west of Ocna Mureș (Miereschhall) ; the district capital Alba Iulia (Karlsburg) is about 43 kilometers southwest.

history

On the territory of the municipality Unirea on by the locals Valea Lichii and Cetatea Jidovilor (. Ung Zsidóvár ) areas mentioned, are - according to data of JF Niegebaur (1847 or 1851) - archaeological sites that link to a settlement in the Roman times indicate . According to a report by J. Téglás (1913), the Roman path branched from Apulum (today Alba Iulia) to Potaissa (today Turda ), with the one to Brâncoveneşti , Mureş district . According to reports by H. Schroller (1933), M. Roska (1934), N. Fettich (1936), numerous archaeological finds point to the Wietenberg culture of the Bronze Age . According to M. Roska, finds of necropolises were made in 1914 , which point to the time of the great migration .

The place founded by Hungary was first mentioned in 1219 under the name terra Wynchy . In 1441 the place united with Vereșmort - today's Unirea II (Rothberg) - and thus formed Unirea.

In the Middle Ages , today's place was Unirea, a flourishing market town and the headquarters of the Szeklerstuhl Aranyos in the Szeklerland . In 1813 GL Marienburg reported that this “market town was inhabited by noble Szeklers , then by Wallachians and some gypsies ”.

The village of Unirea was drawn in 2005 - along with 19 other localities - as Sat european (“European village”) from 212 localities nationwide. For this purpose, a children's playground could be built in the village.

The main occupations of the population are agriculture and livestock.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	4,541	3,146	1,084	-	311
1910	6.234	4.029	1,898	28	279
1977	7,089	5,535	1,200	2	352
2002	5,506	4,096	660	2	748
2011	4,796	3,322	500	1	973

The highest population of today's municipality was determined in 1977, that of the Romanians (5,657) in 1966, the Germans (28) in 1910, the Hungarians (1,265) in 1956 and that of the Roma (747) in 2002. In addition, 1890, 1900 and 1910 were each designated one resident as a Slovak , one as a Serb in 1930 and one as a Ukrainian in 1966 .

In Unirea (I and II) itself there were 1,057 Hungarians, 18 Romanians and 123 Roma in 1850; from 1880 (1,261) to 1910 (1,775), about nine times as many Hungarians as Romanians were registered. From 1920 (271) the proportion of the Romanian population increased dramatically until 1930 (1,268). In 2002, 2,624 Romanians, 654 Hungarians, one German and 633 Roma were counted in Unirea.

Attractions

The Reformed , Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches in Unirea.
The monastery Sfântul Dimitrie Izvorătorul de Mir of the incorporated village of Dumbrava (ung. Dombró ).