Vama Buzăului

Vama Buzăului
Bosau Customs Office
Bodzaváma

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Brașov

Coordinates :

45 ° 36 ' N , 26 ° 0' E Coordinates: 45 ° 35 '57 " N , 25 ° 59' 33" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

778 m

Area :

156.63 km²

Residents :

3,220 (October 20, 2011)

Population density :

21 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

507245

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 68

License plate :

BV

Structure and administration (as of 2016)

Community type :

local community

Structure :

Vama Buzăului, Acriș , Buzăiel , Dălghiu

Mayor :

Tiberiu-Nicolae Chirilaș ( PSD )

Postal address :

Str. Principală, no. 425
loc. Vama Buzăului, jud. Brașov, RO-507245

Website :

www.comunavamabuzaului.ro

Vama Buzăului ( German Bosau Customs Office , Hungarian Bodzaváma ) is a municipality in the Brașov County , in Transylvania , Romania .

Geographical location

Location of Vama Buzăului in Brașov County

Ruins of a catholic chapel

The municipality of Vama Buzăului is located in the south of the Eastern Carpathians , between the Ciucaș and Siriu mountain ranges of the Munții Buzăului ( Bosau Mountains ). On the upper reaches of the Buzău and on the village road ( drum comunal ) DC 49A, the street village Vama Buzăului is located in the southeast of the Brașov district 45 kilometers east of the district capital Brașov ( Kronstadt ).

About ten kilometers north of the community center is the small town of Întorsura Buzăului ( Bodsau ) in the Covasna district .

history

The place Vama Buzăului was first mentioned in a document around 1700. At the time of the Habsburg Monarchy , Vama Buzăului was a border crossing between the historical regions of Transylvania and Wallachia .

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality was in the Sepsi chair district (today Sfântu Gheorghe ) in the historical Háromszék county , then in the subsequent historical administrative unit of the Brașov district and, from 1950, the current Brașov district.

On the area of the place Vama Buzăului, called by the locals Marele Tătar and Strâmba de Sus , there are ditches and piles of earth that have not yet been archaeologically explored.

population

In the 1850 census, 685 people were counted on the area of today's municipality. In the community, which is predominantly Romanian , the highest number of inhabitants (3356) and also that of Romanians (3337) were registered in 2002. That of the Roma (164) was determined in 1977, that of the Magyars (55) in 1850 and that of the Romanian Germans (23) in 1941.

In 2011 there were 3220 people in the community. 3051 were Romanians, 107 Roma and the rest did not provide any information about their ethnicity.

The main occupation of the population is forestry and animal husbandry.

Attractions

The ruins of a Catholic chapel.
The Romanian Orthodox Church Înalțarea Domnului , built in the mid / late 19th century, was renovated in 1958.
On the area of the incorporated village of Acriş (ung. Egrestö ) the wisent reserve Rezervația Naturală "Valea Zimbrilor" about 92 hectares in size.

Web links

Commons : Vama Buzăului, Brașov - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
↑ Information on the website of the municipality of Vama Buzăului , accessed on June 1, 2016 (Romanian).
↑ Institute Of Archeology - Vama Buzăului from cimec.ro accessed on June 1, 2016 (Romanian)
↑ Census, last updated November 1, 2008 (Hungarian; PDF; 521 kB)
↑ Information on the church in Vama Buzăului from biserici.org accessed on June 1, 2016 (Romanian)
↑ Cristiana Predoiu: Rezervatia Naturala Valea Zimbrilor - Vama Buzaului. romania-turistica.ro, April 20, 2019, accessed on February 2, 2020 (Romanian).

[zensus2011-1] 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)

[HHGS-2] Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .

[3] Information on the website of the municipality of Vama Buzăului , accessed on June 1, 2016 (Romanian).

[4] Institute Of Archeology - Vama Buzăului from cimec.ro accessed on June 1, 2016 (Romanian)

[5] Census, last updated November 1, 2008 (Hungarian; PDF; 521 kB)

[6] Information on the church in Vama Buzăului from biserici.org accessed on June 1, 2016 (Romanian)

[7] Cristiana Predoiu: Rezervatia Naturala Valea Zimbrilor - Vama Buzaului. romania-turistica.ro, April 20, 2019, accessed on February 2, 2020 (Romanian).