Vața de Jos

Vaţa de Jos (deprecated Varta de Jos; Hungarian Alváca ) is a municipality in the district of Hunedoara in Transylvania, Romania.

The place is also known as the Hungarian names Alsóváca, Nagyváca and Alvaca - Fürdö.

Geographical location

The community Vaţa de Jos lies in the Bradford Valley ( Depresiunea Brad ), northeast of the Zarand Mountains ( Munţii Zarandului ) at the headwaters of Crisul Alb ( White yelp ), a source of the river Körös. In the north of the district of Hunedoara on the county road (drum Judetean ) DJ 707, about two kilometers south of the European Route 79, the place is located about 20 kilometers northwest of the town Brad ( Tannenhof ); the district capital Deva ( Deva ) is located about 55 kilometers southeast.

Of the 20,263 hectares of the municipality of 3570 hectares are processed agricultural. The twelve eingemeindeten villages can be reached only partly on gravel roads.

History

About one kilometer north of Vaţa de Jos, Prihodişte known in the cave Peştera also known Hânzasca, archaeological finds were what point in the Neolithic period, made ​​.

An old seaside resort with basic facilities for baths and an outdoor swimming pool was an economic main branch of the place. The artesian springs of thermal baths have a temperature of 35 ° -38.5 ° C and a salinity of 1218 mg per liter. Today, the resort is closed.

Population

Since the official census of 1850 Romanians were predominantly registered on the territory of the present municipality. The highest population ( 7,421 ) - at the same time the Magyars (203 ) - was established in 1910. The highest population of Romanians ( 7,258 ) in 1941, the Roma (230 ) in 1850 and the Romanian-German (27 ) was registered in 1920. Furthermore, one in 1992 and three in 2002 a Ukrainian, 1900 and 1910 and 1930 per three Serbs, 1890 an inhabitant, 1900 nine, in 1910 and 1930, three residents registered as Slovaks.

In the 2011 census, 3,728 people were counted in 1,543 households in the community.

Attractions

In place Vaţa de Jos no significant sights are worth mentioning. It is worth mentioning that the listed wooden churches and wooden houses in several incorporated villages:

• In the village Basarabasa the wooden church Sf. Nicolae in the 17th century; the wooden house of Petru Iocan, 1890 built.
• Built in eingemeindeten village Birtin the wooden church Buna Vestire, about 1690, the property of Isac Sabin, built in 1900, the wooden house of Minodora Gligor 1906, which built by Ioan Rus 1910 and the wooden house of Carolina Lucaci, 1915.
• In eingemeindeten Cazanesti village conservation area are built in the 18th century and enlarged in the 19th century wooden church Pogorârea Sf. Duh, the wooden house of Elena Dudas and Ioan Şerb both built in 1810.
• In Ciungani the wooden church Buna Vestire, built about 1600, and built the estate of Rozalia mates and the wooden house of Anghelina Miclea both in 1800.
• In Ocişor the wooden church Adormirea Maicii Domnului, built about 1802.
• In Ociu the wooden church Sf. Arhangheli, built 1750-1800.

Pictures

Wooden church in Birtin

Wooden church in Cazanesti

Wooden church in Ciungani

Wooden church in Ocişor

Wooden church in Ociu