Vătava

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Vătava
Oberrübendorf
Felsőrépa
Vătava Coat of Arms
Vătava (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Mureș
Coordinates : 46 ° 58 '  N , 24 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 57 '37 "  N , 24 ° 45' 43"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 648  m
Area : 168.80  km²
Residents : 1,987 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 12 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 547630
Telephone code : (+40) 02 65
License plate : MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Vătava, Dumbrava , Râpa de Jos
Mayor : Zaharie Șular ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. Principală nr. 62
loc. Vătava, jud. Mureș, RO-547630
Website :

Vătava [ ˈvətava ] (outdated Râpa de Sus ; German  Oberrübendorf , Hungarian Felsőrépa ) is a municipality in the Mureș County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

The place is also known by the Hungarian names Répa and Felsőrépás and the Transylvanian-Saxon Raipendref .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Vătava in Mureș County

The municipality of Vătava is located in the eastern foothills of the Gurghiu Mountains (Munții Gurghiu) and the southern foothills of the Călimani Mountains (Munții Călimani) - both mountain ranges of the Eastern Carpathians - northeast of the Transylvanian Heath (Câmpia Transilvaniei) . Vătava is located on the Râpa brook , a tributary of the Mureș (Mieresch) , and the district road (drum județean) DJ 154B, 25 kilometers north of the city of Reghin (Saxon rain) and about 60 kilometers north of the district capital of Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) .

history

The place Vătava was first mentioned in 1332.

Around 1914, about 20 water mills, oil presses and whirlpools were noted along the Râpa brook in the municipality. In 1936 the old name of the place Râpa de Sus was changed to today's "Vătava". The collectivization of agriculture also took place here on the territory of the municipality . Thirteen peasant families successfully resisted the reprisals of the communist party and thus remained independent.

In the Kingdom of Hungary , the place belonged to the chair district of Régen Felső ("Ober-Regen") in the Maros-Torda County, then the historical Mureș County and, from 1950, the Mureș County today.

population

The population of the Vătava commune developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 2,609 2,567 - - 42
1910 3,230 3,019 20th 55 136
1941 3,321 3,056 88 - 177
2002 2.135 2,026 7th - 102
2011 1,987 1,804 4th - 179 (Roma 135)

The highest number of inhabitants has been recorded in the area of ​​today's municipality since 1850 and that of the Magyars and Roma (140) in 1941. The highest number of Romanians (3,172) was determined in 1890 and that of Romanian Germans in 1910.

Attractions

  • In the incorporated village of Râpa de Jos (Unterrübendorf) , the orthodox church Înălțarea Domnului is in the old cemetery, built in 1757, and the former home of Simion Mândrescu, built in the 19th century, according to the Romanian Ministry of Culture, is a listed building.

Personalities

  • Simion Mândrescu (1868–1947), born in Râpa de Jos, was a politician, writer and founder of the Romanian-German Cultural Institute in 1935 in Bucharest.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Arcanum Kézikönyvtár: Historical-administrative book of place names of Transylvania, Banat and Partium. Retrieved February 9, 2019 (Hungarian).
  3. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  4. ↑ Information on the website of the municipality , accessed on February 14, 2019 (Romanian)
  5. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian).
  6. ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian)
  7. ↑ Information on Simion Mândrescu , accessed on February 14, 2019 (Romanian).
  8. ^ Daniela Laube: Romania and its cultural propaganda in Germany. 1930-1944. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .