Vișeu de Sus

Viseu de Sus ( Oberwischau German, Hungarian Felsővisó, Yiddish Ojberwischo ) is a town in northern Romania in Maramureş County. The municipality in 1956 the city collected lies at the confluence of the eponymous river Vişeu with the Vaser. It includes the city except in the narrow sense, nor the village Viseu de Mijloc. in 2002 had Viseu de Sus 15,944 inhabitants, Viseu de Mijloc 3223.

Known is the place especially through the Carpathian Forest Railway ( Wassertalbahn ), which runs from Viseu de Sus on a 40 km long rail network to the Ukrainian border.

Geography and weather

Viseu de Sus is located 427 meters above sea level and covers an area of ​​around 44,000 hectares of land. The climate is continental, with warm summers (warmest month of July with an average of 20 degrees) and cold winters ( at about 69 days a year are on average 15 inches of snow ).

Already several times been ravaged by floods Viseu de Sus. So tore last July 27, 2008 Water masses bridges and houses of the city away. The Wassertalbahn was severely affected.

History

Oberwischau was first mentioned in 1362. The first major wave of German settlers families arrived some 400 years later. For large parts of it were initially large families from Gmunden, Bad Ischl and Ebensee in Upper Austria. Between 1796 and 1798, the Zipser immigrated, German settlers from the Zips in Upper Hungary, now Slovakia. These immigrants came mainly from Käsmark and Leutschau, but also - located outside the Zips - German samples. The Pressburger authorities then sent workers from these areas and from Pudlein and Altlublau after Oberwischau. To date, a German -speaking minority in the city has received. The Zipser lived a long time in its own district, the so-called Zipserei.

In the city