Voivodeni (Mureș)

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Voivodeni
Johannisdorf
Vajdaszentivány
Coat of arms of Voivodeni (Mureș)
Voivodeni (Mureș) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Mureș
Coordinates : 46 ° 42 '  N , 24 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 42 '12 "  N , 24 ° 37' 37"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 364  m
Area : 34.00  km²
Residents : 1,756 (October 20, 2011)
Population density : 52 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 547650
Telephone code : (+40) 02 65
License plate : MS
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : local community
Structure : Voivodeni, Toldal
Mayor : Vasile Boer ( PSD )
Postal address : Str. Principală nr. 160
loc. Voivodeni, jud. Mureș, RO-547650
Website :

Voivodeni (outdated Sânioana or Sântioana ; German  Johannisdorf, Hungarian Vajdaszentivány ) is a municipality in the Mureș district , in the Transylvania region in Romania .

The place is also known under the German name Johannesdorf and the Hungarian Szentivány .

Geographical location

Location of the Voivodeni municipality in Mureș County

The municipality of Voivodeni is located in the south of the Transylvanian Heath (Câmpia Transilvaniei) , part of the Transylvanian Basin . At Bach Luț - a right tributary of the Mureș (Mieresch) - and the county road (drum județean) DJ 154J is the place Voivodeni 13 kilometers southwest of the city Reghin (Saxon rain) and 23 kilometers north of the district capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) .

history

The place Voivodeni was first mentioned in 1332.

According to archaeological excavations , two kilometers north of Voivodeni on the hill called Benghát ( 374  m ), settlement in the region is dated to the Bronze and Hallstatt Ages. Archaeological finds of the place are in the Museum Bruckenthal in Sibiu . Also to the south of the village, at La comoară by the locals , are ruins that point to Roman times and a Roman road is noted.

Finds of a Roman settlement in the area of ​​the building of the agricultural production cooperative are noted in the area of ​​the incorporated village of Toldal (Hungarian Toldalag ).

In the Kingdom of Hungary , the place belonged to the chair district Régen alsó ("sub-rain") in the Maros-Torda County, then to the historical Mureș County and from 1950 to the present Mureș County.

population

The population of the municipality of Voivodeni developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 1.991 739 948 11 293
1920 2,607 964 1,582 8th 53
1941 2,833 762 1.994 22nd 55
2002 1,957 622 1,174 3 158
2011 1,756 499 1,056 3 198

Since 1850, the highest number of inhabitants (2,849) was registered in 1956 in the area of ​​today's municipality. The highest number of Magyars was determined in 1941, that of Romanians (1,019) in 1966, Roma (263) in 1930 and that of Romanian Germans in 1941.

Attractions

  • In the community center, the reformed church built in the 15th century, rebuilt in the 18th century and the country house of the Hungarian aristocratic family Zichy built in the 18th century are listed as historical monuments.
  • On the area of ​​the incorporated village there are several lakes, Lacul Sate , where fishing can be done.

  • Town hall of the municipality

  • Country house Zichy

  • reformed Church

  • Entrance gate of the reformed church

Web links

Commons : Voivodeni  - 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 January 30, 2019 (Hungarian).
  3. ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen . Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 , p. 517 .
  4. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Voivodeni accessed on February 3, 2019 (Romanian).
  5. ↑ a b List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian)
  6. ↑ Censuses 1850–2002, last updated November 2, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB; Hungarian).
  7. ↑ Information on the Reformed Church in Voivodeni at biserici.org, accessed on February 3, 2019 (Romanian).
  8. ↑ Information on Landhaus Zichy at adatbank.ro , accessed on February 3, 2019 (Romanian).
  9. ↑ Information on Lacul Sate at locuridepescuit.net , accessed on February 3, 2019 (Romanian).