Valea Mare (Covasna)

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Valea Mare
Nagypatak
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Valea Mare (Covasna) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Covasna
Coordinates : 45 ° 46 '  N , 26 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 46 '3 "  N , 26 ° 1' 0"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 570  m
Area : 105.00  km²
Residents : 1,051 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 10 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 527170
Telephone code : (+40) 02 67
License plate : CV
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Valea Mare
Mayor : Gheorghe Avram ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. Principală nr. 218
loc. Valea Mare, jud. Covasna, RO-527170
Website :

Valea Mare ( Hungarian Nagypatak ) is a municipality in the Covasna district , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Valea Mare in the Covasna district

The municipality of Valea Mare is located in the northwestern foothills of the Întorsura Mountains - a part of the Eastern Carpathians - in the south of the Covasna district. The place is located seven kilometers north of the small town of Întorsura Buzăului (Bodsau) and about 27 kilometers southeast of the district capital Sfântu Gheorghe (Sankt Georgen) on the creek of the same name, a tributary of the Covasna river and on the district road (Drum județean) DJ 121A .

history

Valea Mare, which is mostly inhabited by Romanians, was first mentioned in a document in 1770.

An archaeological find of the remains of an oval property on the mountain by the locals called Culmea Cetății (Hungarian Várbérce ) has not yet been assigned to an era.

At the time of the Kingdom of Hungary Valea Mare belonged to the Sepsi district in the Háromszék County ( Romanian Comitatul Trei-Scaune ). Subsequently, Micfalău belonged to the historical Trei-Scaune (German three chairs ) and from 1950 to today's Covasna district.

Since 1999 Valea Mare has been an independent municipality, until then the place belonged to the municipality of Barcani .

population

The population of Valea Mare developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 433 338 34 - 61
1941 1,020 679 249 2 90
1977 1,159 1,118 20th - 21st
2002 1,177 1,147 13 - 17th
2011 1,051 1,026 13 - 12

Since 1850 the area of ​​Valea Mare has had the highest number of inhabitants and that of the Romanians in 2002. The highest number of Magyars, Roma (87) and Romanian Germans were registered in 1941.

Attractions

  • The Orthodox Church of Sf. Arhangheli , built in 1793, is a listed building under the Register of Historic Monuments of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Ministerul Culturii și Patrimoniului Național) .
  • The monastery in Valea Mare, first mentioned in 1994, was consecrated in 1998.

Web links

Commons : Valea Mare  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB).
  2. Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  3. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Valea Mare , accessed February 10, 2020 (Romanian).
  4. Information on the website of the municipality of Valea Mare , accessed on February 10, 2020 (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 the Valea Mare Monastery at crestinortodox.ro, accessed on February 10, 2020 (Romanian).