Șura Mică

Şura Mica ( German small chafing, Transylvanian Saxon Klischeiern, Hungarian Kiscsűr ) is a municipality in the district of Sibiu in Transylvania, Romania.

Location

The village Şura Mica located eight kilometers north-west of the county capital Sibiu ( Hermannstadt). The place is located on a county road that crosses the Ocna Sibiului ( Salzburg) to Pauca ( turn offs ).

History

Archaeological finds suggest that the area around Şura Mica was inhabited at least from the 4th century.

1323 the village was first mentioned in documents as Parvum Horeum. The settlement was founded by the Saxons was repeatedly vandalized over the centuries by wars and disasters or affected. For example, by Turkish invasions (1432, 1437/38 to 1493 ), looting by the troops of Michael the Brave ( Michael the Brave ) in 1600 and the kuruc (1706 ) as well as by a major fire in 1733 and also by the earthquake of 1977 which has caused damage to the Protestant Church.

1780, the first Romanian wooden church was built. From the second half of the 19th century the German language and the Romanian population is kept roughly in balance. Only through the emigration after the political changes of 1989 in Romania santa the proportion of the Transylvanian Saxons in the village rapidly.

Education, economic and social

Already 1715 is the establishment of a school in small chafing.

In the originally agricultural town since the end of the 1990s the company " Transilvania Pack and Print SA " the most important investor and employer.

Traffic

The municipality is located on the county road " DJ 106B " and on the railway line 208 of the CFR. The international airport in Sibiu Turnisor ( Neppendorf ) is about seven kilometers away.

Attractions

• Evangelical Church (13th century, structural changes in the 15th and 16th centuries )

Personalities

• Dan Danila, (born 1954 ), poet, painter and translator, was born here.