Moldovenești

Moldoveneşti (formerly Varfalău; Várfalva Hungarian, German Burgdorf ) is a municipality in the district of Cluj in Transylvania, Romania.

Name

The settlement was originally the Hungarian name Várfalva from which the Romanian form Varfalău was modified. After the First World War, the village was named after the locally born Ioan Micu Moldovan.

Location

Moldoveneşti lies in the west of Transylvania on the northeastern edge of the Trascău Mountains, about at the point where the river leaves the mountains Aries. The nearest major town is Turda ( about 15 km north-east ).

History

The town and the nearby former castle Castrum Torda, 1075 first mentioned. This Moldoveneşti to be the oldest attested settlement in Transylvania.

The castle was built on the site of a Roman fortification, had to monitor the gold recovered including the transport of the Apuseni Mountains ( Alburnus Maior ) in the valley of Aries.

Around the year 1285 the town was destroyed by Tatars, but then rebuilt.

Near Moldoveneşti 57 graves were discovered from the Árpád age.

Population

The place in the narrower sense had 2002 1242 inhabitants. About 2,500 more residents of the community live in several incorporated villages. In Moldoveneşti even in 2002, 73% of citizens known as Hungary; the rest are Romanians and Roma.

Traffic

Moldoveneşti is located a few hundred meters off the National Road ( Drum National) DN 75 from Turda after Ştei.

The leading of Turda after Abrud small railway was decommissioned in the late 1990s. Since then, the nearest train station is about 20 km away on the train route Cluj- Napoca Razboieni.

Attractions

( Visible from the only small residues) In addition to the aforementioned castle today is the Unitarian Church worth mentioning, which was built around 1300.

About 10 km south-west of the town is the striking Piatra Secuiului, one of the finest surveys of Trascău Mountains.

Gallery

Unitarian Church

Personalities

• Ioan Micu Moldovan (1833-1915), historian, theologian and folklorist