Zărneşti

This article describes the city of Zărneşti in Braşov County (Romania). For more meanings, see Zărnești (disambiguation) .

Zărnești Zernen / Zernescht Zernyest
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Transylvania
Circle :	Brașov
Coordinates :	45 ° 34 '  N , 25 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 34 '21 "  N , 25 ° 20' 35"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Area :	204.75  km²
Residents :	23,476 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	115 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	505800
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 68
License plate :	BV
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	city
Structure :	1 District / cadastral municipality: Tohanu Nou
Mayor :	Alexandru-Lician Igrișan ( PSD )
Postal address :	Mitropolitan Ioan Mețianu, no. 1 loc. Zărneşti, jud. Brașov, RO-505800
Website :	primaria-zarnesti.ro

Zărnești ( Hungarian Zernyest , German  Zernen or Zernescht ) is a small town in the Brașov district in Transylvania , Romania .

Zărneşti is located in the Carpathian Arch at the foot of the Piatra Craiului Mountains ( Königstein ) and also includes the (incorporated) district Tohanu Vechi and the Tohanu Nou district .

history

Zărnești station (terminus of the Brașov – Zărnești railway line )

On August 21, 1689, an Ottoman army under Emmerich Thököly defeated the combined troops of General Donat Heissler and Michael Teleki near the town , making Thököly briefly Prince of Transylvania.

In Zărneşti, the factory produced weapons on March 6, during the Ceauşescu period. After the revolution of 1989, the factory was gradually abandoned, at last it was still making bicycles. Today it is no longer in use.

With the loss of other industries, unemployment in Zărneşti is high today. A switch to tourism has so far only partially succeeded.

The Zărneşti Bear Reserve is Europe's largest brown bear reserve near the city .

Sons and daughters

• Grete Csaki-Copony (1893–1990), painter
• Ionuț Gălițeanu (* 1979), ski mountaineer
• Rareș Manea (* 1986), ski mountaineer

See also

• List of cities in Romania

Web links

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

• Zărneşti a city at the foot of the Königstein at zarnesti.net (Romanian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
2. ↑ Austria's heroes and military leaders from Maximilian I to the most recent times, described in biographies and character sketches from and after the best sources and source works. , GoogleBooks, pages 356-359