Viișoara (Cluj)

Viișoara [ viiˈʃoara ] (outdated Agârbiciu ; German Alder Market , Hungarian Aranyosegerbegy ) is a municipality in the Cluj County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Viișoara in the Cluj county

The municipality of Viișoara consists of two villages and is located east of the Arieș River on an area of about 6100 hectares in the west of the Transylvanian Basin in the southeast of the Cluj County. The community center is located on the Arieș River and on the DJ 150 district road (Drum județean) , which branches off the DN 15 national road in Câmpia Turzii (Jerischmarkt) . The place Viișoara is two kilometers northeast of the city of Câmpia Turzii; from the district capital Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) about 40 kilometers southwest.

history

The place Viișoara was first mentioned in a document in 1311 or 1318 under the name Egerhegy , according to different sources . Archaeological excavations, three kilometers north of Viișoara on the area called Dealului Bărbos (Hungarian Szakálashegy ) by the locals , indicate, according to J. Téglás , settlement of the region in Roman times . Other finds from the same period were made at La Cărămidă (Hungarian Téglásfar ) and at the foot of the Dealul cu foc mountain (Hungarian Égöfö ). According to M. Roska, an archaeological find from the Late Bronze Age was made in the incorporated village of Urca (Hungarian Mezőörke ) .

In the Middle Ages, today's Viișoara was settled by Magyars and belonged to the manor in today's village of Luncani . Around 1600 the place was destroyed, in 1617 the Transylvanian Prince Gabriel Bethlen settled 36 riders with military liberties here. In 1764 the place was incorporated by the Hussar Frontier Regiment, in 1850 its fair rights were transferred to today's small town Luduş .

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's community belonged to the chair district Torda in the County Torda-Aranyos , then the historic district of Turda and from 1950 to today's Cluj County at.

population

The population of the municipality developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	2,951	1,431	1,231	2	285
1930	4,673	2,644	1,716	6th	307
1977	7,098	4,951	1,811	-	336
2002	5,852	3,858	1,417	1	576
2011	5,493	3,501	1,229	-	763 (Roma 486)

Since 1850 the highest number of inhabitants in the area of today's municipality was determined in 1977, at the same time that of Romanians. The highest population of the Magyars (1842) was registered in 1966, that of the Roma (574) in 2002 and that of the Romanian Germans (74) in 1890.