Șoimuș

Şoimuş (deprecated Şoimuşul Mureşan; German Falkendorf, Hungarian Marossolymos or Maros Solymos ) is a municipality in the district of Hunedoara in Transylvania, Romania.

The place is also known as the Hungarian names Solymos and German Scholmosch.

Geographical location

The community Şoimuş is located south of the Transylvanian Erzgebirge ( Munţii Metaliferi ) southwest of the Transylvanian Basin ( Podişul Transilvaniei ). At the mouth of Boholt - a right tributary of the Mureş ( Maros ) - and the National Road ( drum National) DN 76, the location is situated about five kilometers from the district capital Deva ( Deva ) away. The nine eingemeindeten villages are located on the approximately 6,800 acres of the community between 3-13 kilometers from the community center. About 63 % of the municipality be processed agricultural.

The Romanian Motorway A1 will ( when completed ) also run on the grounds of the resort.

History

Şoimuş a former Roman settlement was first mentioned in documents in 1278. In 1459 the town became a market town in the historic county Hunyader (county iron market). Until 1839 in Şoimuş was a raft port and a customs station for Salzflößerei on the Mures. An occupation of the site ranges according to reports by G. Téglás, B. Posta, H. Schroller, inter alia, to the early Bronze Age. Archaeological finds have been in Şoimuş at La Telegi; in eingemeindeten village Boholt ( Bolden ) on the mountain Ciuta made ​​.

On the grounds of the church, in several incorporated villages Chişcădaga and Paulis was built after 1940 the railway Deva Brad, which was finally closed down because of the landslides in the region in 1996 and sold as scrap metal.

Population

The population of the municipality is as follows:

Since the official census of 1850 Romanians were predominantly registered on the territory of the present municipality. The highest population ( 5,219 ) - at the same time the Romanians ( 4945 ) and the Magyars (184 ) - 1910 was determined. The highest number of Roma population (100 ) in 1850 and the German Romania was registered in 1900. Furthermore, were 1890 and 2002 per a 1930 two Slovakians, 1900, 1930, 1977 and 1992, per a Serb, 1966, 1977 and 2002 depending on a Ukrainian registered. In the 2011 census, 3,371 people were counted in 1,489 households in the community.

Attractions

• The wooden churches Sf. Nicolae built in Şoimuş, 1705, extended in the 19th century and the Adormirea Maicii Domnului built in Sulighete, in the 18th century, rebuilt in the 19th century, are national monuments.
• On the grounds of the eingemeindeten village Boholt the same nature reserve, once extended because its three mineral water springs on about one hectare. One of the sources are about 10,000 liters per day and is bottled since 1883. Currently, the reserve is limited only to the gorges of the Teiului Valley, surrounded by plants on limestone.

Pictures

Church in Şoimuş

Wooden church in Sulighete

Wooden church in Căinelu de Jos