Freidorf
Free village (Romanian and German, Hungarian Szabadfalu or Szabadfalva ) is the Seventh Municipality of Timisoara ( Timisoara German ) in Western Romania. The municipality was originally an independent and majority of Germans inhabited village in the Banat. This was incorporated in 1950 to Timisoara and has about 1500 inhabitants on an area of 156 hectares.
Geography
Free village is situated in a low level with a very high water table. To drain excess water is passed through a pumping station in the Bega. The place has the Gara Timişoara Vest ( German Station Timisoara West) connection to the railway network.
History
1984 were found during construction work in the foundations of a factory human bones. Archaeologists have found remains of a Daco- Roman settlement dating from the 3rd / 4th Century, which is overlaid by a necropolis dating from the 5th century. Systematic research continues to this day.
The first settlers from the Swabians named the place after the village of origin, free village in Alsace. The first mention of the town was in a petition to Emperor Charles VI in May 1719. In 1720, free village was recorded for the first time on a map, then with eight houses. The founder of the church, Franz Paul Wallis, let create on a part of the town a vegetable garden for the general kitchen. This created a village whose inhabitants are mainly going about the commercial horticulture. The settlers built a school and a windmill, and a Catholic church; the first made of wood, the second and still existing parish church of Saint Roch in 1736 of brick.
In 1836 the population was ravaged by a cholera epidemic. 1850, settled also Hungarian and Romanian families. In addition to agricultural products they produced bricks for the growing city of Timisoara.
Timisoara was besieged during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848/49 by Hungarian troops, but the military of the city remained faithful to the Austrian Emperor. The Hungarian army commander General Józef Bem taught in a free village a military camp. During this time, Bem lived in Freidorfer rectory. Among his soldiers was the Hungarian poet and folk hero Major Sándor Petőfi, the 1889 in free village, a memorial was unveiled. Still gather annually on 15 March Hundreds of Hungary in Petőfi Park to lay down wreaths at his monument. After the integration of the Banat in the Kingdom of Hungary was free village 1894-1918 Szabadfalu or Szabadfalva.
On October 3, 1998, a monument to the fallen German soldiers in World War II was inaugurated in the cemetery of the village free.
Economy
In 1967, in the Comtim Beregsau Mare, the largest pig in Romania, built in the free village had a store. After the Romanian Revolution of the operation was closed in the early 1990s. The production in 2004 of Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pig breeding and pork processing company, taken over and reopened on April 2, 2009.
The industrial park free village, located in the southwest of the village, has settled a total area of 47.9 hectares, where, among others, the following companies have:
- SC Kromberg & Schubert România
- SC ContiTech România
- SC Company Boma
- GTM Logistics Europe
- S. C. Midal Alf
- Nestlé
- S. C. Rosign
- S. C. R -Coating
In free village is also the sewage treatment plant, which treats the wastewater Timişoara.
Personalities
In free village of multiple Olympic swimming medalist and Tarzan actor Johnny Weissmuller was born in 1904. Another son of the town is the editor of musicological bibliographies Janos Frecot, as well as the German writer and journalist Nicholas Berwanger.