Ghimeș-Făget

Ghimes - Făget (Hungarian Gyimesbükk ) is a municipality in the district of Bacau in Romania. Seat of the municipality is the village Făget.

Geographical location

The community Ghimes - Făget located in the Eastern Carpathians between the Tarcău and the Ciucului Mountains. At the headwaters of the Trotus - a right tributary of the Siret - is Ghimes - Făget on the National Road (drum National) DN 12A and the railway line Sfântu Gheorghe Siculeni - Adjud about 40 kilometers northwest of the town Comăneşti; the county seat, Bacau is located about 100 kilometers east of Ghimes - Făget away.

To the east of the county Bacau in the region of Transylvania in the historical Székely Land, the place is not far from the Gyimespass located at 1159 m. ⊙ 46.4633425.92549

History

The place was first mentioned in documents in 1476. Located in the historic district chair Felcsíki ( Obercsík ) of Csík county is the place about 20 kilometers north of the Ghimes gorge and the eastern border of the Kingdom of Hungary to the Vltava River. Here on the right bank of the Trotus was the 17th- century Rákóczi border castle.

The local Catholic church St. eucharistia where he runs a parish center which was inaugurated in 2008. The Romanian church is godfather community of the catholic parish St. Konrad in Bergisch Gladbach - hand.

Population

The inhabitants are 60% Hungary. As of the 2002 census, 5,340 inhabitants were registered in Ghimes - Făget, including 2,720 Magyars, 2,522 Romanians, 25 Roma, 71 Tschango and two others.