Ilia (Hunedoara)

Ilia ( Elienmarkt German, Hungarian Marosillye ) is a municipality in the district of Hunedoara in Transylvania, Romania.

Ilia is also known by the German names Hielen and Castille village and the Hungarian Magyarillye.

Geographical location

The municipality is located in southwestern Ilia Transylvania, southwest of the Transylvanian Erzgebirge ( Munţii Metaliferi ) and north of the Poiana Rusca - Mountains. On the right bank of the river Mures ( Mures ) located, the location is situated on the European road 68 and the railway line Arad - Alba Iulia. From here there is a train service to Lugoj in the Banat. The district capital Deva ( Deva ) is located approximately 25 kilometers east of Ilia.

When Ilia e crosses the river Mureş 68 and about 3 kilometers southeast from being completed - in Săcămaş - the European Route 673 from Lugoj ( Timiş ).

History

The town was first mentioned in 1248. The history of the colonization of the region goes back much further, however. A find on the territory of the municipality is - according to data from A. Koch (1876 ), C. Gooss and others - assigned to the Neolithic; it is in the Museum of Sibiu ( Hermannstadt). Beginning of the 16th century was here a castle - a center of feudal central authority - the Báthory family. István Báthori gave them to his private secretary Farkas Bethlen, the father of the late Prince Gábor Bethlen.

Ilia ( Marosillye ) was the administrative seat in the same district of the historic county chair Hunyad (Hungarian: Hunyadi Vármegye ).

Population

The population of the municipality is as follows:

Since 1850, the highest population ( 5,904 ) in 1910 was calculated on the territory of the municipality. The highest population of Romanians ( 5,300 ) in 1966, which the Germans in 1900, the Hungarians ( 762 ) in 1910 and the Roma (205 ) registered in 1930. Furthermore, some inhabitants as Serbs ( highest population 4 in 1890 ) known as Ukrainians ( highest population 4 each in the years 1956 and 1966 ), and in almost every census as Slovaks ( highest population 4 in 1930 ). The main occupation of the population is agriculture, wood processing, working in the gravel mining on the river Mureş and the quarry.

Attractions

  • The Bethlen Castle, rebuilt several times, in 1784 burned down by insurgent peasants. Today, part of which serves as a hospital and is a listed building.
  • The rural center of the town ( the streets Ştefan cel Mare, Traian and Libertăţii ), built in the 18th and 19th centuries, is a listed building.
  • The wooden churches in several incorporated villages Brâznic ( Cuvioasa Paraschiva, built in 1650, rebuilt in 1700 ) and in Bretea Mureşană ( Sf. Dumitru, built 1653) are listed buildings; by Bacea is not a listed building.

Pictures

The Orthodox Church

The Bethlen Castle

The Mureş in Ilia

Personalities

  • Gábor Bethlen (1580-1629), was from 1613 to 1629 Prince of Transylvania and participated in 1619-1626 on the side of the Protestants in the area of ​​present-day Slovakia in the Thirty Years' War.
  • Pompiliu Teodor (1930-2001), cultural historian and member of the Romanian Academy.
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