Aleșd
Aleşd (Hungarian Élesd ) is a city in Bihor County in Romania.
Location
Aleşd located in Kreisch area in the north of the Apuseni Mountains, on the right bank of the river Crisul Repede ( German Fast yelp ). The county town of Oradea is located about 35 km to the west.
History
Aleşd was probably founded in the 11th century and first mentioned in 1291 under the name of Villa Elusd. It belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. The village was originally located on the left bank of the rapids yelp before the residents moved in the 13th century after severe flooding on a terrace on the other side. After the Mongol invasion of 1241/42 was approximately 5 km north of Aleşd a castle (Hungarian Sólyomkő Vara German Falkenstein, rum. Piatra Soimului ) established. It was first mentioned in 1306 and soon became the center of a feudal system, which also belonged Aleşd. 1658-1660 she was and thus Aleşd by Constantin Şerban Basarab, the former prince of Wallachia, 1660-1692 ruled by the Ottomans, otherwise by various Hungarian noble families. End of the 17th century was Aleşd part of Austria-Hungary. After Kuruzenkrieg took place in 1711, the destruction of the castle by order of the Habsburg rulers. After 1867 the town was the seat of a chair district in Bihar county, Hungary. 1904 came in Aleşd to an uprising of Hungarian and Romanian peasant who was brutally suppressed. At the end of World War Aleşd came to Romania, was then in the meantime as a result of the Second Vienna Award 1940-1944 Ungarns.1968 again a part of the town was declared a city.
The break after the revolution in 1989 led to marked economic problems so that Aleşd was declared in 1999 by the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for the " disadvantaged area ".
Population
1880 lived on the territory of today's 3,683 people, while Romanians and Hungarians about the same number. 1,400 people (mainly Hungary ) lived in Aleşd, the others (mostly Romanians ) in the three eingemeindeten today places. In 1930, designated from the then 4,544 inhabitants as 2,065 Romanians, 1,789 as Hungary, 347 as Jews, 313 as Slovaks, 15 and 13 as German as Roma. In 1956, the number of Jews had fallen to 65. As of the 2002 census, 10,415 residents were registered in Aleşd, including 7,387 in the city proper, and 3,028 in the incorporated towns. 6,788 were Romanians, 1987 Hungarians, 953 Roma, 645 Slovaks and 28 German.
Partnerships
- Kaba Hungary (Hungary ) in the small area Püspökladány
Traffic
Aleşd lies on the major rail route Oradea - Cluj- Napoca. On the town's station - which is on the other side of the rapids yelp - including high-speed trains. By Aleşd leads the European Route 60
Attractions
- Romanian Orthodox Church in the district Tinăud, 17th Century
- Romanian Orthodox wooden church in the district pestis, 18th Century
- Ruined castle in the village of Piatra Soimului pestis, 13th century
- Castle Poiana Florilor, 19th century
- Monument to the peasant uprising in 1904
- Summer Market in August Aleşdana
Sports
The local football club Crisul Aleşd played from 1997 to 2002 in the third- highest division, the Divizia C. Before the start of the 2002/ 03 season, the club moved back to the Divizia D, where he was until the summer of 2003 coached by Zsolt Muzsnay. Subsequently, the team from summer 2003 to summer 2004 by Sorin Pop, from summer 2004 to summer 2007 and summer 2008 to the end of 2009 by Mircea Madar, and from August 2007 to the summer of 2008, and ( as player-coach and Mircea Madar as technical director ) trained from February 2010 until his resignation in November 2011 by Viorel Domocoş. Since November 2011, Ciprian Fogoroşi head coach of the team that competes as before in the League IV in the relay of Bihor County.