Zagar

Zagăr ( German Rode , Hungarian Zágor ) is the seat of the municipality of the same name in the Mureș district in the Transylvania region in Romania . The village of Seleuș (Kleinalisch) also belongs to the municipality .

Geographical location

Location of Zagăr in Mureș County

The place is located in a southern side valley of the Târnava Mică (Kleine Kokel) in the Zwischenkokel area, about 20 kilometers as the crow flies northwest of Sighișoara (Schäßburg) and 28 km northeast of Mediaș (Mediasch) . At the Domald - a left tributary of the Târnava Mică - and the county road (drum județean) DJ 142C, the place Zagăr is about 40 kilometers south of the district capital Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) .

history

Rode, first mentioned in a document in 1412, was one of the northernmost settlements of the Transylvanian Saxons on Kokelburg county floor . Until 1848 the inhabitants were servants of noble Hungarian landowners. However, they enjoyed certain privileges that were guaranteed to them when they settled and that gave them a somewhat easier lot compared to the residents of non-Saxon villages with poor hearing.

In the Kingdom of Hungary , today's municipality belonged to the Erzsébetváros chair district (now Dumbrăveni ) 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 village developed as follows:

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	1,853	60	6th	1,727	60
1900	2,042	295	32	1,715	-
1941	2,497	307	10	2,058	122
1977	1,748	622	21st	917	188
2002	1,208	692	45	33	438
2011	1,192	616	51	17th	463

In 1941 the largest population - at the same time that of the Transylvanian Saxons (1,198 in Zagăr; 860 in Seleuș) - was registered in the municipality. The highest proportion of Romanians (713) was registered in 1956, the Roma (463) and that of the Magyars were registered in 2011. Furthermore, in 2002 a resident declared himself a Serb .