Veseuș
Veseuș Michelsdorf Szásznagyvesszős |
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Historical region : | Transylvania | |||
Circle : | Alba | |||
Municipality : | Jidvei | |||
Coordinates : | 46 ° 17 ' N , 24 ° 9' E | |||
Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | |||
Height : | 315 m | |||
Residents : | 1,044 (2002) | |||
Postal code : | 517389 | |||
Telephone code : | (+40) 02 58 | |||
License plate : | FROM | |||
Structure and administration | ||||
Community type : | Village |
Veseuș [ 'veseuʃ ] (outdated Vesăuș ; German Michelsdorf , Hungarian Szásznagyvesszős ) is a Romanian village in the Alba district in Transylvania . It belongs to the Jidvei ( Seiden ) municipality .
The place is also known under the German name Mechelsdorf and the Hungarian Veszős .
Geographical location
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Veseuș is located on the Michelsdorf Brook about six kilometers north of the Târnava Mică ( Little Kokel ) river in the historic Klein-Kokelburg county . On the village road ( drum comunal ) DC 29, Veseuș is about seven kilometers northeast of the community center; the district capital Alba Iulia ( Karlsburg ) is about 60 kilometers to the southwest.
history
Around 1142, the first German settlers were called into the country by the Hungarian king, who settled in what is now Sibiu . In 1224 Andreas II granted the golden license . Around 1240 there was an attack by the Tatars and Mongols .
The place founded by Transylvanian Saxons was first mentioned in documents in 1332 . The church was built in 1504 (1557 or 1558; first bell).
population
The population of the village developed as follows:
census | Ethnic composition | |||||||
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year | population | Romanians | Hungary | German | other | |||
1850 | 887 | 330 | 75 | 304 | 178 | |||
1900 | 1,127 | 448 | 137 | 254 | 188 | |||
1941 | 1,297 | 468 | 109 | 428 | 297 | |||
1966 | 1,345 | 881 | 120 | 257 | 87 | |||
1992 | 1,047 | 445 | 99 | 18th | 485 | |||
2002 | 1,044 | 501 | 69 | 4th | 470 |
The highest number of inhabitants in Veseuș until 2002 was determined in 1966 - at the same time that of the Romanians; that of the Romanian Germans in 1941, the Magyars in 1900 and that of the Roma (485) in 1992. In 1977 one of them confessed to be Slovak .
From January 1945, Germans were deported to the Soviet Union for forced labor . The residents got back the expropriated houses and farms in 1956. In 1994 there were only five people living in the village who could speak the German language. Today Veseuș is mainly populated by Romanians and Roma.
Attractions
- The Protestant church , built in 1504 and the bell tower renewed in 1825, is a listed building.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Gottlieb von Windisch: Geographi of the Grand Duchy of Siebenbürgen , Third Part, Pressburg 1790.
- ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
- ↑ Census, last updated October 30, 2008 (Hungarian; PDF; 1.2 MB).
- ↑ picture of the church at sevenbuerger.de .
- ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)