Valea Lunga (Alba)

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Valea Lungă
Langenthal
Hosszúaszó
Coat of arms of Valea Lungă (Alba)
Valea Lungă (Alba) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Alba
Coordinates : 46 ° 8 '  N , 24 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 7 '30 "  N , 24 ° 2' 35"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 281  m
Area : 75.07  km²
Residents : 2,907 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 39 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 517815
Telephone code : (+40) 02 58
License plate : FROM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Valea Lungă, Făget , Glogoveț , Lodroman , Lunca , Tăuni
Mayor : Vasile Pușcă ( PNL )
Postal address : St. Victoriei nr. 328
loc. Valea Lunga, jud. Alba, RO-517815
Website :

Valea Lungă [ ˈvalea lungɘ ] (outdated Hususău or Husăsău; German  Langenthal , Hungarian Hosszúaszó ) is a Romanian municipality in the Alba district in the Transylvania region .

The place Valea Lungă is also known under the German name Langthal and Langendorf and the Hungarian Hosszúaszú .

Geographical location

Location of the Valea Lunga commune in the Alba district
View of Valea Lunga

The municipality of Valea Lungă is located in a hilly landscape in the south of the Kokel valley , in Transylvania. On the right bank of the lower reaches of the Târnava Mare (Great Kokel) - a left tributary of the Mureş - the community center is on the Teiuş – Braşov railway line and the Drum național 14B between Blaj (bubble village) and Copşa Mică (Kleinkopisch), Sibiu district . Valea Lungă is 19 kilometers southeast of Blaj; the district capital Alba Iulia (Karlsburg) is about 55 kilometers (36 km as the crow flies) to the west.

history

According to reports by K. Horedt , V. Pârvan and M. Roska, finds from the Bronze Age were made in the area of ​​the incorporated village of Făget (birch village ) . In the village of Glogoveț (Tutendorf) there are - according to L. Köváry, N. Schroller and M. Roska - archaeological sites that indicate settlement in the Early Bronze Age .

The place Valea Lungă was first mentioned in 1309 under the name Longavallis . Located outside the historical Königsboden , Langenthal was a Transylvanian-Saxon serf village , ruled by Hungarian nobles in the Middle Ages . In 1848 there were 20 small noble families settled in the village. The family crypt of the Szentkereszthy family is located in the village's reformed cemetery .

The main occupations of the population are agriculture, wood processing and work in a gravel mine on the Mureș River.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows: The population of the municipality of Vătava developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 4,307 2,907 182 692 526
1910 4,701 3,571 416 657 57
1941 5,299 4,075 182 794 248
1977 4,878 3,986 172 666 54
1992 3,506 3.116 126 109 155
2002 3,271 2,952 99 36 184
2011 2,907 2,634 66 15th 192

The highest population (5,333) of today's municipality was determined in 1966. The highest population of Romanians (4,544) was registered in 1956, that of Germans in 1941, that of Hungarians in 1910 and that of Roma (243) in 1850. In addition, one resident referred to himself as a Serb in 1880, one each in 1900 and 1910, and four in 1930 as Slovaks .

In the village of Valea Lungă itself, 1901 people were registered in the 2002 census, of which 1661 were Romanians, 105 Roma, 99 Hungarians and 36 Germans.

Attractions

  • The late Gothic towerless evangelical hall church , built in the 14th century, received a new coffered ceiling made of 118 fields in 1729 . The baroque altar and pulpit date from 1725; the stone baptismal font and the mascarons on consoles from the Middle Ages. Fragments of naive wall paintings have also been preserved in the church. The crypt under the choir of the church was set up as an ossuary ; from here an escape route led to a farm. On the ring-shaped, quarry stone, five-meter-high defensive wall of the church, two of the original six towers still stand. In 1981 the Transylvanian Saxons built a three-storey bell tower with a parapet made of rubble on the foundation of a collapsed defensive tower. The smaller of the two bells dates from 1592; the big one from 1710. The church is a listed building.
  • In the village there is still the Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic Church , built around 1772, a Reformed Church donated by Baron Szentkereszti and an Orthodox Church , built in 1930. A synagogue , built at the end of the 19th century, was demolished after the Second World War .

  • Memorial stone of the Szentkereszthy family

  • Evangelical hall church ...

  • ... and the bell tower

  • Greek Catholic Church

  • Roman Catholic Church

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Valea Lungă  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Romania ( MS Excel ; 256 kB)
  3. ^ Dictionary of the localities in Transylvania
  4. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Făget und Glogoveț, accessed July 15, 2010 (Romanian)
  5. ↑ PRIMARIA COMUNEI VALEA LUNGA - Judetul Alba - PREZENTARE LOCALA - Istoric (Romanian)
  6. ↑ a b c d Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft-Verlag, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
  7. ↑ Census, last updated October 30, 2008, p. 183 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.2 MB)
  8. ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)
  9. ^ Konrad Gustav Gündisch:  MÜLLER (-Langenthal), Friedrich (d. J.). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 239-242.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  10. ^ Josef Barth, in: Siebenbuerger.de Zeitung, November 12, 2008 .
  11. ↑ 100 years since the death of the Transylvanian botanist Josef Barth , in: Hermannstädter Zeitung, July 30, 2015.