Ceanu Mare ( hu, Mezőcsán; german: Gross-Tschaan) is a commune in the north-west of Romania, in Cluj County,

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. It is composed of thirteen villages: Andici (depopulated since 1985; ''Andics''), Boian (''Mezőbő''), Bolduț (''Boldoc''), Ceanu Mare, Ciurgău (''Csurgó''), Dosu Napului (''Oláhtóhát''), Fânațe (''Csániszénafű''), Hodăi-Boian (''Mezőbőifogadó''), Iacobeni (''Mezőszentjakab''), Morțești (''Morcest''), Stârcu (''Csóka''), Strucut (merged with Gherea in 1968; ''Sztinkutdűlő'') and Valea lui Cati (''Sárospatakdűlő''). The village is known in

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after the Schröder family discovered that the father of former Chancellor

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was buried there in a common grave in 1944. Lieutenant Fritz Schröder was a soldier in the German army during

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and he died at the age of 32 near the city of Turda (''Thorenburg'' in German) on 4 October 1944, without ever seeing his newborn son Gerhard.

Demographics

According to the census from 2002 there was a total population of 4,322 people living in this town. Of this population, 94.08% are ethnic

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, 3.51% ethnic

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and 2.36% are ethnic

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References

{{Cluj County Communes in Cluj County Localities in Transylvania