Zekesch highlands
Coordinates: 46 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ N , 23 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E
The Zekesch Highlands ( Romanian Podișul Secașelor ) is a hill country in the north of the historic Unterwald , in the southwest of the Transylvanian Basin in Romania .
Demarcation
The Zekescher highlands are limited
- in the north of the Kokel highlands (Podișul Târnavelor) with the Târnava (Kokel) and its source river Târnava Mare (Great Kokel)
- to the west of the valley of the river Mureș (Mieresch)
- in the east of the Vișa valley (Weißbach) and the Harbach highlands (Podișul Hârtibaciului)
- in the south of the Secaș (Zekesch) , a tributary of the Sebeș (Mühlbach) , which runs north of the Zibins Mountains (Munții Cibin) .
description
The Zekesch highlands are located in the southeast of the Alba district and in the west of the Sibiu district . It is named after two small rivers, both of which are named Zekesch ( Secaș in Romanian ). The northern Zekesch ( Secaș ) is a left tributary of the Kokel (Târnava) , the southern Zekesch ( Secaș ) flows into the Mühlbach (Sebeș) . The highlands essentially correspond to the catchment areas of the two rivers. Secaș, in the north, has a length of about 37 kilometers and a catchment area of about 356 km². Secaș, located in the south, has its headwaters on the area of the municipality of Jina (Sinna) and runs over a length of about 42 kilometers.
The hilly landscape is located at an altitude of about 250- 500 m . The highest mountain in the region is the Straja ( ⊙ 546 m ) near the village of the same name Straja (Hohenwarte) , which belongs to the municipality of Berghin in the Alba district. The village of Straja itself is at an altitude of 405 m . The second highest mountain is the Ghiorghelu ( ⊙ 505 m) near the village of Armeni ( Armenen ; 378 m) in the Loamneş community ( Ladmesch , Sibiu district).
While forests dominate in the center of the region, most of it is characterized by pastureland with steppe vegetation.
population
The area has been inhabited since the Stone Age and from the Middle Ages up to the revolution of 1848 was an area of subservient peasants on the grounds of the monasteries and nobles of Hungarian and German origin in the historical Unterweissenburg County ( Alsó-Fehér vármegye in Hungarian ).
As everywhere in Transylvania, almost all Romanian Germans left the region before and especially after the revolution in 1989 to emigrate to Germany. In the second half of the 20th century, the Romanians make up the majority. A large number of Roma also live here . Hungarians are numerically less important.
traffic
- The main traffic routes in the region are parts of the county roads (drum județean) DJ107, DJ107B, DJ106K and DJ106L.
Attractions
- The Râpa Roșie nature reserve ( ⊙ Red Mountain ) is located about three kilometers (as the crow flies) east of Lancrăm (Langendorf) . The area consists of deposits of red clay , gray and red sandstone , white loose sandstone, red to brick-colored marl rock and limestone marl.
Some places in the area
- Cenade (Scholten) in the Alba district
- Doștat (Thorstadt) in the Alba district
- Loamneș (Ladmesch) in Sibiu County
- Ludoș (Giesshübel) in Sibiu County
- Ohaba (Neudorf) in the Alba district
- Păuca (Törnen) in Sibiu County
- Roșia de Secaș (Rothkirch) in the Alba district
- Șpring (burst) in the Alba district
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the website of the municipality of Ohaba, accessed on February 12, 2011 (Romanian)
- ↑ Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
- ↑ Web presence of the Râpa Roșie ( Memento of January 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )