Sântana

Sântana ( German Sankt Anna, Hungarian Újszentanna ) is a market town in the western part of Romania, at an altitude of 112 meters. Located in a fertile area, called Arad level, which is a part of the Tisza level on the eastern border of the Pannonian Basin, conveys the environment the sight of a Puszta, overlooking the foothills of the Apuseni Mountains in the east.

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Geographical location

The place Sântana part of the Arad County and is located about 22 km north of the district capital. The north - south extent of 15 km, and the east- west distance of 10 kilometers, covers almost 11,000 ha community area. Sântana is the second largest town of the district and was raised in 2004 to the rank of a city.

Sântana is a traffic hub of the railway lines Timisoara - Oradea and Arad - Brad ( Hunedoara ). The county road Pâncota - Curtici forms the connection to the 6 km away European route 671 from Timisoara to Oradea. About the county road then the E 671 of the Arad Airport (25 km) within easy reach.

Sântana is administratively from the city proper and the eingemeindeten village Caporal Alexa.

History

Breakfast time

The originating from the Stone Age finds on the boundary of Sântana are valid evidence for the assumption that in this area as early as the Stone Age 4,000 years ago people lived. The flat land around Sântana has only in the south against Arad on larger surveys; the " Avars Hill ", now called " Cetatea Veche ".

Here were found, such as on a pole fortified stone chisel, which served as weapons lances, Stag handles and fired stone balls. From the Bronze Age absent evidence of the existence of a population in the region Arad.

After Jordanis Clos became a part of Dacia - between Mureş and Criş - attacked after the withdrawal of the Romans towards the end of the 3rd century by the Germanic Vandals and occupied. After the expulsion of the Vandals by the Goths, the Huns invaded this area. The " pot of gold of Saint Anna " proves that in this area even at the time of the Huns lived Germans.

After the year 566, the area fell to the clans of the Avar " Khan Bayan " and was part of a new state structure, the Avar Empire. Erdeinbrennungen that have been found here are the main features of Awarenfestungen. In the documents from the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries, the original settlement of Sântana, namely Komlosch, not yet mentioned. From the 14th and 15th centuries is known that there are many monasteries and convents were in the area and rich nobles lived in fortified dwellings.

On April 21, 1888 promoted earthworks on the railway line Arad - Saint Anne of the Awarenring several items to light: a fired clay pot, the remains of a human skeleton, a grave next to several items of gold. The most important subject presented a forged gold ring it supersedes composed of 12 laurel leaves that were mounted on a tire bracelet. To this fund still has a tire strap and an occupied with massive gold rings bracelet. All items are now in the Museum of Budapest.

Publications (published in the years 1950 to 1970) report that during excavations at the station of Sântana broken clay pots and a burned cup of specific material Dacian origin were found. These ceramic fragments can certainly assign the gray ceramic made by bike. In addition, vessels with calcified bone, curved knives made of steel and a primer in each of gold, steel and bronze were found in a coffin. Based on these findings and the funeral rituals of the then director of the Museum of Arad, Egon Dörner concluded that there must have been a settlement here free Dacians from the 2nd and 3rd centuries.

Archaeological finds from the excavations that were carried out in the presence of professors Aneta Cordos and John Gehl on the grounds of the village school Sântana prove that the territory to Sântana is to be regarded as part of the Romanian settlement history.

German colonization

Baron James de Bibich is named as the founder and colonizer of the municipality of Saint Anne. He was lord of all the lands in the region Zarand, founded the municipality of Santa Anna on the basis of the settlement program of the Banat of Empress Maria Theresa, adopted by the Hungarian Parliament in 1723 in Bratislava.

About the settlements of the municipality of Santa Anna, there are two summary documentation. The authors represent partly different theories regarding arrival times, places of origin and group strength of the German settlers.

• Andreas Easter, after many years of work researched and demonstrated the arrival of the first settlers and their places of origin by extensive research. Basis for the findings of the author were inspected in the church books at the place of settlement and their comparison with the Kirchenmatrikeln in the places of origin, information provided by the Austrian State Archives and the in-depth analysis of the Hungarian monograph of the county of Arad by Sandor Marki.

• Jacob Hübner calls in his monograph of the greater community of Santa Anna as a source of evidence, the historian Sandor Marki and Christian Zenter, the yearbooks of the public school Santa Anna from 1896 to 1897 and the Piarist grammar school from 1937 to 1938.

Name of the place from 1742 up to today Uj - Szennt Anna, Pankota, Szennt Anna, Komlos, Old Sanktana, Sanktana, New Sanktana, Sfânta Ana, Sîntana and Sântana.

Population

April 2002

Review

The population of the municipality of Santa Anna / Santana 1755-1997

Population figures from 1956

Culture and Tradition

Method of construction

The planners of the Vienna Ärars designed the village plan for Santa Anna. Taking a look at the so-called "checkerboard village plan" of Neusanktanna from 1783 /84 as it is immediately apparent that the individual plots have different expansions. The planners put in the middle of the village on an oversized square, around which are grouped the square plots. This laid the foundation of a country town had already been laid. The arrived in Santa Anna in the 18th century, settlers had to rely on self-help and personal initiative. What they needed for building a house, they found: earth, wood and straw.

Climate

Average Rainfall in mm

Education

In Sântana four schools can be found on site:

• School " Sf. Ana "
• School No. 2 Komlosch
• School Complex
• Public school

Youth and Leisure

The Executive Board of the Santa Anna ( Sfânta - Ana ) School organizes annual youth festival. Youth clubs are organized mainly by the schools.

Churches

• Mother Anne's Church
• Romanian Orthodox Church Komlosch
• Sacred Heart of Jesus Church
• Romanian Orthodox Church Sântana 2
• Romanian Orthodox Church Satul Nou

Personalities

• Stefan Hell ( b. 1962 ), physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen
• Mara Kayser (* 1966), German folk pop singer