Ighiu

Ighiu (deprecated IGIU; German grave village or Krapundorf, Hungarian Magyarigen ) is a town in Alba county in Transylvania, Romania.

The place is also known by the German names Krabundorf and Kuppendorf.

Geographical location

Ighiu is located on the same stream - a tributary of the Ampoi - on the southeastern edge of the Trascău Mountains in western Transylvania. Three kilometers from the national road (Drum National) DN 74 ( Zlatna - Alba Iulia ) and the SARD Ighiu station - taken at the 1895 in operation and in 1984 converted to standard gauge railway Alba Iulia Zlatna - is the town about 10 kilometers northwest of the county capital Alba Iulia away.

History

The place was first mentioned in 1206 under the name of Villa Crapundorph. He was a founding Transylvanian Saxon settlers. Due to the devastating Mongol invasion in 1241 the number of German residents decreased significantly. The Hungarian form Iguen is 1299, today's Romanian name Ighiu occupied in 1850. Over the centuries, increasingly dominated Hungarian and Romanian inhabitants of the village. They lived and live on agriculture and viticulture.

Population

Of the approximately 6,500 residents of the community live about 1200 in the village proper Ighiu. In 2002, here designated by the then 1244 inhabitants in 1124 as Romanians. Besides lived 106 Roma, 13 Hungary and a member of other nationalities in the town. For the past 100 years, an increasing assimilation of the Hungarian population is observed, and was, for example, in the year 1910 in Ighiu about a third of the inhabitants of Hungarian nationality as at.

In the overall community lived in 2002 a total of 6432 people, of which 6170 Romanians, 227 Roma, 30 Hungary, Romania 4 German and 1 Italian.

The highest number of Germans ( 61) on the territory of the municipality in 1880, the Hungarians ( 595 ) in 1880 and 1890, which counted the Roma ( 355 ) 1977.

Attractions

  • The Romanian Orthodox Church Cuvioasă Paraschiva (1724, Bell Tower 1761) is a listed building.
  • Remains of fortifications of the Reformed church from the 15th - 18th Century. The Reformed Church (formerly Protestant) and rectory ( built in the 18th century) are listed buildings.
  • In eingemeindeten village Ighiel ( Igensbach ) the Orthodox Church Cuvioasa Paraschiva, built in the 18th century, is a historical monument.

Personalities

  • Péter Bod (1712-1769), Reformed Pastor
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