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Buziaş ( German ( Bad ) Busiasch, Hungarian Buziásfürdő or Buziás ) is a town in Timiş, Banat, Romania. According to the census in 2002 Buziaş had a population of 7738 people. This figure dropped to 2007 to 7712 inhabitants.
Geographical Location
Buziaş located on the edge of the Silascher wine hills. The village is located in the middle of the highway Timisoara - Lugoj and also has a railway connection to each two cities. Buzias is 25 kilometers from the city of Lugoj and 34 km from Timişoara.
Neighboring towns
History
At the point where is Buziaş today, there were already in the year 101 a Roman fort named Ahihis. Documentary is occupied Buziaş since 1320, when it was donated by King Charles Robert of Anjou nobles. After the peace of Passaro joke on 21 July 1718 the Banat was connected after 164 years of Turkish rule of the Habsburg monarchy and placed under an imperial crown and chamber domain of the Vienna Imperial Government. It started the Habsburg colonization of the Banat Swabians by the so-called trains. Between 1782 and 1821 German here were settled.
In 1886 was Buzias host the 13th Congress of doctors and naturalists from Hungary and Transylvania, which was also professionals from Europe and Asia participated. Emperor Franz Joseph I. and Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand have Buzias visited in 1898 and stayed here, as they took part in a military exercise. The former imperial villa is still to be seen.
On 4 June 1920, the Banat was divided into three parts as a result of the Treaty of Trianon. The largest, eastern part, which included Busiasch, fell to the Kingdom of Romania.
As a result of the Waffen-SS Agreement of May 12, 1943 between the Antonescu government and Hitler's Germany all ethnic German conscript men were drafted into the German army. Even before the war, in January 1945, the deportation of all ethnic German women took place between 18 and 30 years and men aged 16-45 years to build labor in the Soviet Union instead.
The land reform law of 23 March 1945 which provided for the expropriation of German farmers in Romania, the rural population deprived the livelihood. The expropriated land was distributed to small farmers, farm workers and settlers from other parts of the country. Early 1950s, the collectivization of agriculture was initiated. Through the nationalization law of 11 June 1948 providing for the nationalization of all industrial and commercial establishments, banks and insurance companies, the expropriation of all farms took place regardless of ethnicity.
In 1956 Buziaş received city rights. Mayor of the city is Alger Viorel ILAS (PSD ).
Tourism
Mineral sources
The Buziaşer mineral water is still one of the most sought Medicinal drinking water of the Banat. The Romans used the healing power of carbonated mineral water. A first chemical analysis of the mineral water took place in 1796, but his healing power was not recognized until the early 19th century. The carbonated mineral springs were first discovered by Dr. Johann Bernhard Lindemayr 1805-1811. The first guests Kurten 1811, by drinking bottled water. Later, it was also bathed in it. The most famous medicinal water source is the Josef source. 1839 Busiasch was officially declared a health resort. When the mineral water springs came into the possession of Muschong family, the heyday of the spa began.
Park and Kuranlage
It has created a park of 200 brought from Italy plane trees. Through the park led a 500 m long covered walkway, and there were 22 villas built to accommodate the spa guests. The park covers an area of 20 hectares and can boast many rare species. The property is built in Turkish- Byzantine style and is unique in Romania. Similar walks are to be found in Europe only in Karlovy Vary and in Baden -Baden.
In 1874, the first mineral water swimming pool in Europe was opened in Buziaş. 1900 decreed the spa 5 tennis courts and the park was enriched with 20 palm trees brought from Palermo. As the health resort a few kilometers away from the railway station, a narrow gauge railway for the transport of spa guests was built. Later, a zoo was created in the middle of the forest here. Among the most prominent spa guests Buziaşs included, among others, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, Crown Prince Ferdinand and King Ferdinand I of Romania.
Natural cure factors are the air ionization and the carbonated mineral water, which is used both in the Außenkur in the form of baths and in the Innenkur application. The cures in Bad Busiasch are recommended in the following diseases: cardiovascular disease, nutritional and metabolic disease, neuroendocrine disorders, disorders of the central nervous system, kidney and urinary tract diseases, ailments of the esophagus.
The "Little train"
Since Buziaş is not directly at the train station, was built by the then owner of the spa and Spa Bath, Jacob Muschong (1868-1923), built a narrow gauge railway. The track construction began in 1912 and was completed in 1919. Muschong sat for the carriage of his bathers two people weighing and for the transport of mineral water and carbon dioxide tanks as well as the luggage of bathers a freight car, the so-called Päckelwagen, a.