Viișoara (Mureș)

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Viișoara
Hohndorf
Csatófalva
Coat of arms of Viișoara (Mureș)
Viișoara (Mureș) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Mureș
Coordinates : 46 ° 18 '  N , 24 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 17 '53 "  N , 24 ° 35' 51"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 375  m
Area : 60.87  km²
Residents : 1,659 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 27 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 547645
Telephone code : (+40) 02 65
License plate : MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Viișoara, Ormeniș , Sântioana
Mayor : Ovidiu Dorel Stoica ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. Principală nr. 111
loc. Viișoara, jud. Mureș, RO-547645
Website :

Viișoara [ viiˈʃoara ] (outdated Hundorf ; German  Hohndorf , Hungarian Csatófalva ) is a municipality in the Mureș County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

The place Viișoara is also known under the Hungarian names Hundorf and Hondorf , and the German Hohendorf and Hahnendorf .

Geographical location

Location of the municipality of Viișoara in Mureș County

The municipality Viișoara is located in the Kokeltal (Podișul Târnavelor) in a southern side valley of the Târnava Mică (Little Kokel) . At the Domald - a left tributary of the Târnava Mică - and the county road (drum județean) DJ 142C, the place Viișoara is eight kilometers north of the small town Dumbrăveni (Elisabethstadt) and about 45 kilometers south of the district capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) away.

history

Today's Viișoara was created by merging the two villages of Hohndorf and Maldorf . According to various sources, Hohndorf was first mentioned in documents in 1367 or 1376 and Maldorf in 1420.

Archaeological finds in the area of Hohndorf were dated to the Neolithic and in the area called Pe Platou (Auf der Breite) by the locals to the Late Bronze Age.

An urn from Roman times was found in the area of ​​the district of Domald (Maldorf) .

Mathematician János Bolyai was among the petty aristocrats who owned land in the area of ​​the community center .

In the Kingdom of Hungary , the place belonged to the Erzsébetváros chair district in the Klein-Kokelburg County, then to the historic Târnava-Mică district and, from 1950, to today's Mureş district.

population

The population of the municipality of Viișoara developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 2,780 822 20th 1,855 83
1941 3,750 1,161 47 2,310 232
1977 2,574 1,319 32 1,013 210
1992 1,636 1,092 27 115 402
2002 1,663 1,151 47 39 426
2011 1,659 1.008 29 28 594

Since 1850 the highest number of inhabitants and that of the Romanian Germans were registered in the area of ​​today's municipality in 1941. The highest number of Romanians (1,708) in 1956, the Magyars (66) in 1900 and that of the Roma (530) in 2011.

Attractions

  • The Protestant church in the community center, built in the 15th century and renovated several times, is a listed building.
  • In the incorporated village of Ormeniș (Irmesch) , the Protestant church built in the 16th century, is a listed building.
  • In the incorporated village of Sântioana (Johannisdorf) , the simple Protestant church, is not a listed building.

  • town hall

  • Church in Viișoara (Hohndorf)

  • Church in Viișoara (Maldorf)

  • View of the district of Domald / Maldorf in Viișoara

Web links

Commons : Viișoara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Arcanum Kézikönyvtár: Historical-administrative book of place names of Transylvania, Banat and Partium. Retrieved March 10, 2019 (Hungarian).
  3. ↑ Information on the website of the municipality of Viișoara , accessed on March 10, 2019 (Romanian).
  4. ↑ a b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  5. ↑ Institute Of Archeology - Viişoara / Hundorf , accessed on March 12, 2019 (Romanian).
  6. ↑ Institute Of Archeology - Viişoara / Maldorf , accessed on 12 March 2019 (Romanian).
  7. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian).
  8. ↑ Information on the Evangelical Church in Viișoara at biserici.org, accessed on March 12, 2019 (Romanian).
  9. ↑ a b List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian).
  10. ↑ Information on the Evangelical Church in Ormeniș at biserici.org, accessed on March 12, 2019 (Romanian).
  11. ^ Image of the Protestant Church in Sântioana