Rupea

Rupea (formerly Cohalm, Reps German, Hungarian Kőhalom ) is a town in the district of Brasov in Transylvania, Romania.

Geographical location

Reps located at Valea Mare - a right tributary of the Homorod - and on the European road E60, which here in the region Sighisoara ( Sighisoara ) with Braşov (Kronstadt) connects. The village lies at the foot of the castle of the same name. The train station of Reps located about 7 km outside, in the settlement Rupea Gară ( Repser station). For the small town Rupea the eight- kilometers northwest situated village Fiser part ( welding shear ).

Population

The city had about 6,200 inhabitants, of which about 90 % were Romanians in 2001. The Protestant community of the Transylvanian Saxons had on 31 December 1995, 86 members. In 2009, the Protestant church congregation had 57 members. 2011 5.269 people were registered, of which 3,591 is known as Romanians, 975 as Székely, 360 as Roma, 82 as a German, on all remaining ethnicity was not known.

History

Reps was founded as a market town in the 12th century as a new settlement on the crown land by German colonists, known as the Transylvanian Saxons. It was one of the primary settlements of the seven chairs and into the 19th century suburb of Repser chair.

Structures

The most important religious building in the city is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of reps. It was built as a Gothic hall church in the 15th century and later provided with a Baroque bell tower.

Today, it is shared by the sharp decline in German Evangelical Lutheran congregation and the Hungarians.

The Repser Castle is the landmark of the city. High above the city on the mountain Kohalmer, they should be seen as widely ruin. It was mentioned as castrum Kuholm for the first time in 1324 and was the seat of the king Repser judge and chair of the powers that be from here Repser the countryside, and the easternmost region of the crown land managed.

Economy

The local economy is dominated by agriculture. In addition, both Reps. ever a factory for the manufacture of carpets and furniture. In the vicinity there are salt springs.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Baussner Bartholomew (1629-1682), a Protestant bishop in Transylvania 1679-1682
• Árpád Tamásy of Fogaras (1861-1939), Austro- Hungarian Feldzeugmeister
• Wilhelm Georg Berger (1929-1993), violinist, musicologist and composer
• Cristian Mandeal ( b. 1946 ), Romanian conductor
• Hellmut Seiler ( born 1953 ), poet, translator and satirist