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Nades, ( German Nadesch, formerly called Saxon- Nadesch, Hungarian Szásznádas ) is a municipality in Mureş county in Transylvania, Romania.

Geographical location

Nades located 19 kilometers from the small town of Sighisoara ( Sighisoara ) and 36 kilometers from the district capital Târgu Mureş away ( Tirgu Mures ). In the West, the place of the European Route 60 crosses. The municipality is bordered to the east by Pipea ( Wepeschdorf ) Jacodu ( Hungarian -Sacken ) and Boiu ( joy village), to the south by Hetiur ( Marienburg), on the west by Magherus ( Maniersch ) and on the north by Ţigmandru ( Zuckmantel ). The highest mountain in the area reaches 657 m.

History and population

The town was first mentioned in 1301. Until 1848 Nadesch belonged to the humble communities of Komitatsbodens. The Saxons formed until after the Second World War, the largest population group.

The census of 1966 revealed the following ethnic composition: 687 German ( Transylvanian Saxons ), 599 Romanians, 269 Hungarians and three Roma. After the collapse of the communist dictatorship in 1989, the Transylvanian Saxons migrated predominantly in the Federal Republic of Germany. The census of 2002 showed 1228 people, of which 669 Romanians, 275 Hungarians, 262 Roma and 23 German.

In the general community, which still includes the villages Magherus, Pipea and Ţigmandru addition to the town Nades, lived in 2002 a total of 2406 people, of which 1416 Romanians, 573 Hungarians, 374 Roma and 43 German.

Personalities

For those born in Nadesch personalities include the botanist and local historian Franz Friedrich Fronius and the theologian Erich Roth.

In Nadesch lived and worked, the physician and later Bishop Bartholomew Bausner and the local historian and poet Georg Friedrich Marienburg.

Attractions

• In Nadesch is a fortified church from the 16th century. The current church hall was built in the years 1851-1853. The little bell of the church tower was cast in 1470. The inscription on this bell ( helf got maria Berot ) is considered the oldest German inscription on a bell in Transylvania.