Viișoara (Mureș)
Viișoara Hohndorf Csatófalva |
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Romania | |||
Historical region : | Transylvania | |||
Circle : | Mureș | |||
Coordinates : | 46 ° 18 ' N , 24 ° 36' 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 |
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Viișoara [ viiˈʃoara ] (outdated Hundorf ; German Hohndorf , Hungarian Csatófalva ) is a municipality in the Mureș County , in the Transylvania region in Romania .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
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 | ||||
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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.
Web links
- Hohndorf at sevenbuerger.de
- Maldorf at sevenbuerger.de
- The municipality of Viișoara at ghidulprimariilor.ro
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
- ↑ Arcanum Kézikönyvtár: Historical-administrative book of place names of Transylvania, Banat and Partium. Retrieved March 10, 2019 (Hungarian).
- ↑ Information on the website of the municipality of Viișoara , accessed on March 10, 2019 (Romanian).
- ↑ a b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
- ↑ Institute Of Archeology - Viişoara / Hundorf , accessed on March 12, 2019 (Romanian).
- ↑ Institute Of Archeology - Viişoara / Maldorf , accessed on 12 March 2019 (Romanian).
- ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian).
- ↑ Information on the Evangelical Church in Viișoara at biserici.org, accessed on March 12, 2019 (Romanian).
- ↑ a b List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian).
- ↑ Information on the Evangelical Church in Ormeniș at biserici.org, accessed on March 12, 2019 (Romanian).
- ^ Image of the Protestant Church in Sântioana