Vişeu de Sus

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Vișeu de Sus
Oberwischau
Felsővisó
Vișeu de Sus does not have a coat of arms
Vișeu de Sus (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Maramures
Circle : Maramureș
Coordinates : 47 ° 43 '  N , 24 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '40 "  N , 24 ° 25' 35"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 427  m
Area : 443.06  km²
Residents : 15,037 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 34 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 435700
Telephone code : (+40) 02 62
License plate : MM
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : city
Structure : 1 District / cadastral municipality: Vișeu de Mijloc
Mayor : Vasile Coman ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. 22 Decembrie, no. 19
loc. Vişeu de Sus, jud. Maramureș, RO-435700
Website :

Vișeu de Sus ( German Oberwischau , Hungarian Felsővisó , Yiddish Ojberwischo ) is a place in northern Romania in the Maramureș district . The municipality, raised in 1956, lies at the confluence of the eponymous river Vişeu with the Vaser . In addition to the city in the narrower sense, it also includes the village of Vișeu de Mijloc . in 2002 Vișeu de Sus had 15,944 inhabitants, Vișeu de Mijloc 3,223. In terms of area, Vișeu de Sus is the second largest city in Romania.

The place is best known for the Carpathian Forest Railway ( Wassertalbahn ), which runs from Vișeu de Sus on an approximately 40 km long rail network to the Ukrainian border.

Geography and weather

Vișeu de Sus is 427 meters above sea level and covers an area of ​​around 44,000 hectares of land. The climate is continental, with warm summers (the warmest month July with an average of 20 degrees) and cold winters (around 69 days a year there is an average of 15 centimeters of snow).

Vișeu de Sus has already been hit by floods several times. For example, on July 27, 2008, water masses tore away bridges and houses from the city. The Wassertalbahn was also badly affected.

history

Oberwischau was first mentioned in 1362. The first large wave of German-speaking families settled here a good 400 years later. To a large extent, there were initially large families from Gmunden , Bad Ischl and Ebensee in Upper Austria . The Spiš , German settlers from the Spiš in Upper Hungary, today's Slovakia , immigrated between 1796 and 1798 . These immigrants came mainly from Käsmark and Leutschau , but also - outside the Zips - German samples . The Bratislava authorities sent workers from these areas as well as from Pudlein and Altlublau to Oberwischau. A German-speaking minority has survived in the city to this day. For a long time the Zipser lived in their own part of the city, the so-called Zipserei .

  • The Wassertalbahn station in Oberwischau

  • In the city

  • Orthodox Nikolaikirche

  • Catholic Church of St. Anna

Sons of the place

literature

  • Claus Stephani : Up in the Wassertal. A Zipser Chronicle. Kriterion Verlag, Bucharest 1970.
  • Claus Stephani: Zipser folk tales from Maramures, South Bukovina and Nösner Land. Kriterion Verlag, Bucharest 1981.
  • Claus Stephani: Folk tales of the Zipser in Northern Romania (= series of publications of the Commission for East German Folklore in the German Society for Folklore eV Vol. 29). NG Elwert, Marburg 1983, ISBN 3-7708-0758-8 .
  • Brigitte Stephani: Zipser wedding customs in Oberwischau. In: Yearbook for East German Folklore. Vol. 28, 1985, ISSN  0075-2738 , pp. 269-282.
  • Claus Stephani: Zipser Mära und Kasska (= series of publications of the Commission for East German Folklore in the German Society for Folklore eV Vol. 43). NG Elwert, Marburg 1989, ISBN 3-7708-0921-1 .
  • Brigitte Stephani: Zipser Children's World in Northern Romania (= series of publications of the Commission for East German Folklore in the German Society for Folklore eV Vol. 46). NG Elwert, Marburg 1989, ISBN 3-7708-0926-2 .
  • Claus Stephani: Women in the Wassertal. Life logs from East Marmatia. Romanian German women tell stories (= dtv 11255). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-423-11255-7 .
  • Brigitte Stephani: Bibliography on the folklore and regional studies of the Spiš Saxons in northern Romania. In: Yearbook for East German Folklore. Vol. 34, 1991, pp. 464-487.
  • Claus Stephani: "Was a ruler, carter". Life and suffering of the Jews in Oberwischau. Reminder conversations. Hain, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-445-08562-5 (Romanian: A fost un ştetl în Carpaţi. Convorbiri despre viaţa evreilor din Vişeu. Hasefer, Bucharest 2005, ISBN 973-630-089-7 ).
  • Claus Stephani: Nobody. Report of a humiliated person (= dtv non-fiction book 30324). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-30324-7 .
  • Claus Stephani: The water valley in East Marmatia. Narrative process and narrative function in a multicultural, mixed-ethnic area, illustrated using the example of folk tales (= series of publications by the Commission for East Jewish Folklore in the German Society for Folklore, Vol. 1). Commission for East Jewish Folklore in the German Society for Folklore, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-00-000830-6 (At the same time: Munich, University, dissertation, 1995).
  • Stephan Gaisbauer, Hermann Scheuringer (ed.): CARPATHIAN berries. Bavarian-Austrian settlement, culture and language in the Ukrainian-Romanian Forest Carpathians. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7069-0384-9 .
  • Anton-Joseph Ilk : The immortality of the wild women , Verlag Adalbert-Stifter-Institut des Landes Oberösterreich, Institute for Literature and Language, Linz, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Vișeu de Sus  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Vișeu de Sus  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
  2. ↑ Oraşul cu cea mai mare întindere din ţară, unde marele scriitor Ion Creangă a luat râie de la caprele Irinucăi
  3. ↑ Claus Stephani: "Between the two brooks ..." How the Spiš settlements around Oberwischau came about. In: Neuer Weg (Bucharest), 29/8848, October 27, 1977
  4. ↑ In the Stifter Haus: Literature / History / Science at four, book presentation. (No longer available online.) Stifter-haus.at, archived from the original on December 17, 2017 ; accessed on December 16, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stifter-haus.at