Vad (Cluj)

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Vad
Révkolostor
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Vad (Cluj) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Cluj
Coordinates : 47 ° 13 '  N , 23 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '12 "  N , 23 ° 44' 48"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 220  m
Area : 73.72  km²
Residents : 2,008 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 27 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 407575
Telephone code : (+40) 02 64
License plate : CJ
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Vad, Bogata de Jos , Bogata de Sus , Calna , Cetan , Curtuiușu Dejului , Valea Groșilor
Mayor : David Prunean ( PNL )
Postal address : Str. Principală, no. 146
loc. Vad, jud. Cluj, RO-407575
Others
City Festival : “Zilele comunei” (community festival) , last weekend in July

Vad ( Hungarian Révkolostor ) is a municipality in Cluj County , in Transylvania , Romania .

The place is also known under the Hungarian name Révkápolnok .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Vad in the Cluj district

The municipality of Vad, consisting of seven villages, is located on an area of ​​about 7400 hectares in the northwest of the Transylvanian Basin . On the left side of the Someș river in the north of the Cluj county and on the DJ 109E county road (Drum județean) (about one km as the crow flies east of DN 1C ), the community center is about 15 kilometers northwest of the town of Dej and about 70 kilometers north from the district capital Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) away.

history

The place Vad was mentioned for the first time in 1467. According to M. Roska and I. Mar vonian , archaeological excavations south of Vad on the mountain Cetățuia point back to a settlement in the region as far back as the Neolithic Age . Further finds from Roman times were made in the villages of Bogata de Jos (Hungarian Alsobogáta ) and Cetan (Hungarian Csatány ).

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

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 3,058 2,902 52 - 104
1920 4.037 3,930 2 - 105
1956 5,389 5,365 12 - 12
1992 2,286 2,249 2 - 35
2011 2.008 1.923 14th - 71 (Roma 6)

Since 1850, the highest number of inhabitants and that of the Romanians in 1956 have been determined in the area of ​​today's municipality. The highest population of the Magyars (145) was registered in 1910, that of the Roma (111) in 1930 and that of the Romanian Germans (36) in 1890.

Attractions

  • In Vad the monastery church Adormirea Maicii Domnului , donated in the 15th century by the Moldovan voivodes Ștefan cel Mare (Stefan the Great) and his son Petru Rareș , was renovated again from 1973 to 1975. The church is a listed building.
  • In the incorporated village of Calna (Hungarian Kálna ) the wooden church Sf. Arhangheli Mihail și Gavriil , built in 1672, is a listed building. On a beam of the Church is the inscription vleat 1672 Mihai Apafi with Cyrillic letters to see.

  • Town hall in Vad

  • Monastery church in Vad.

  • .. in front of it the statue of Stefan the Great

  • Wooden church in Calna

Web links

Commons : Vad  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Vad at ghidulprimariilor.ro
  • Vad on the Cluj County Council website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Otto Mittelstraß: Historical and regional atlas of Transylvania . Gundelsheim am Neckar, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 978-3-929848-00-7 , p. 352 .
  3. ↑ a b c Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  4. ↑ Vad. Institute Of Archeology (Romanian). Retrieved August 24, 2017
  5. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Bogata de Jos (Romanian). Retrieved August 24, 2017
  6. ↑ Cetane. Institute Of Archeology (Romanian). Retrieved August 24, 2017
  7. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian)
  8. ↑ Information on the monastery in Vad from protopopiatulortodox.ro (Romanian) accessed on August 24, 2017
  9. ↑ a b List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian)