Lupșa

Lupsa ( German wolf village, Hungarian Nagylupsa or Lupsa ) is a town in Alba county in Transylvania, Romania.

The place is also known as the Hungarian names Kislupsa, Felsőlupsa and Alsólupsa.

Geographical location

The community Lupsa lies in the northwestern part of the Alba County, in the valley of Aries - a right tributary of the Mureş ( Maros ) - in western Transylvania. On the hills and mountain slopes between the Muntele Mare Mountains in the north and the Transylvanian Erzgebirge in the south, the municipality expands with a total of 23 settlements over an area of ​​10,360 hectares. On the National Road (Drum National) DN75, the place of the city Câmpeni ( Topesdorf ) is located approximately 16 kilometers east; the county capital Alba Iulia ( Charles Castle ) is located approximately 93 kilometers southeast of Lupsa away. Lupsa is part of the historic Pimp country.

History

According to reports from Ackner JM (1856 ), C. Gooss (1876 ), pp. Rákóczy (1906 ), I. Martian (1920 ) and others have been found at the location traces of gold laundries and a settlement from the Roman period.

The place Lupsa - first mentioned in 1366 under the name villa Lwpsa - in the Middle Ages was a Romanian Nationals village and belonged to Thor Burger county. The place consisted in 1518 of two parts: Felsőlupsa and Alsólupsa, the last is identical with Valea Lupşii. The Romanian landlord family Lupsai had a manor here.

When peasant uprising of 1784 came on the territory of the municipality to clashes between the rebels to Horea, Closca and Crisan with the imperial troops. During the Romanian Revolution of 1848, the region was the scene of fighting between troops to Avram Iancu and units of the Hungarian revolutionary army.

The leading through the town of Turda Small train - Abrud ( 93 km ) was opened in 1912 and decommissioned in 1998.

The main occupation of the population are cattle raising, timber processing, mining and to a limited extent some agriculture.

Population

In the 1850 census, living on the territory of the present municipality of 4,673 people. 4,652 of these were Romanians and 21 Roma. The highest population ( 6,119 ) was achieved in 1941; Since then, the population fell steadily. 2002 3.863 Romanians and four Roma were registered. The highest number of Hungarians (16 ) in 1910 and the Germans ( 10) 1941 counted. In the censuses of 1977 and 1992, Ukrainians were also ever recorded.

Attractions

• The Monastery of Lupsa, one of the oldest monasteries in Transylvania Romania was first mentioned in 1429 and was from 1611 to 1848 the seat of a famous convent school. The church of the monastery Sf. Mare Ierarh Nicolae, donated by the landowner Vladislav - with pronaos and coffered ceiling - was built in 1694. In the shingled stone hall church whose porch was built in 1810, the coffered ceiling of two Hungarian master carpenters from Coltesti was made.
• The Village Museum, founded in 1938 by the teacher Pamfilie Albu, has a collection of over 6000 exhibits that come from the original Pimp country.
• The Romanian Orthodox Church Sf. Gheorghe (formerly Greek- Catholic), built in 1421, rebuilt in the 19th century, is a historical monument. The church has frescoes in Byzantine style.
• Old farms with stables, water mills, in the style of Pimp country.
• From Lupsa is a day hike to the third highest peak in the Transylvanian Western Carpathians - the Muntele Mare (1826 m) - to achieve.

Pictures

Wooden church of the monastery

Interior of wooden church