Rimetea

Rimetea (deprecated trascau; German iron castle, Hungarian Torockó ) is a town in Alba county in Transylvania, Romania.

The place is also known by the German name iron market, and the Romanian Rimetea or Rametea.

Geographical location

The municipality is located in north Rimetea Alba County, on the eponymous river Rimetea - a right tributary of Aries - the Trascău Mountains. Approx. 8 km of the National Road ( Drum National) DN 75 and 23 kilometers northwest of Aiud (Strasbourg Mures ), the place is located on the county road (Drum Judetean ) DJ 107M; the county capital Alba Julia ( Charles Castle ) is located 57 kilometers to the south.

History

In the field of community - by the locals Dealul Cetăţii, Stanca Secuilor, Pădurea Pietrii among others called - many archaeological finds to be associated with the Neolithic, the Early Bronze Age and the Roman period.

Situated in a area of iron ore spot is one of the first German mine settlements in Transylvania and was mentioned in a document according to different specifications for the first time in 1257 under the name Toroczcko, or 1332 in the county of Torda. The mining and smelting workers were hearing Transylvanian Saxons ( settlement Styrian miners under King Géza II ) and Hungary. By mixing them was a particular ethnic group with its own national costume show, and in the 17th - 18th Century, the Saxons were assimilated by the Hungarians.

Documented a forge of a noble family is mentioned for generating agricultural tool in the 15th century; In 1716 there were 16 furnaces and forges. Beginning of the 19th century, about 1500 tons of iron were produced in Rimetea.

From the old Romanian name of the place ( Trascău ), the mountains of Trascău derived.

Population

The population of the whole municipality is as follows:

The highest population of the today's municipality in 1930 determined that the Romanians in 1966, the Hungarians and Germans in 1920 and the Roma (225 ) 1850. 1930 a Slovak, 1992, a Ukrainian registered.

Attractions

• The village museum with ironworks and iron objects tooling, established in 1952 in the City Hall of Rimetea.
• The Piatra Secuiului (German Szeklerstein, Hungarian Székelykő ), 1129 m.
• The Unitarian Church, built in the 18th century,
• The ruins Cetatea Trascăului in eingemeindeten village Coltesti ( Sankt Georgen ), built in the 13th century, destroyed in 1713, is a listed building.
• Houses in the Transylvanian Saxon style.
• The watermill Rimetea, built in 1752.

Pictures

Unitarian Church Rimeteas

View Rimetea

Center of the village with views of the Szeklerstein

Rimetea