Zăbrani (german: Guttenbrunn; hu, Temeshidegkút) is a
commune in
Arad County
Arad County () is an administrative division ( judeţ) of Romania roughly translated into county in the western part of the country on the border with Hungary, mostly in the region of Crișana and few villages in Banat. The administrative cente ...
, Romania. It is situated in the eastern part of the
Vinga Plateau
Vinga is a commune in Arad County, western Romania, south of the county seat of Arad, with a population of 5,828 inhabitants (as of 2011).
Vinga is located in the northern section of the Banat. The people in Vinga are mainly Romanians, the seco ...
, in its contact zone with the
Lipova Hills
Lipova or Lipová may refer to places:
Czech Republic
*Lipová (Cheb District), a municipality and village in the Karlovy Vary Region
* Lipová (Děčín District), a municipality and village in the Ústí nad Labem Region
* Lipová (Přerov Dist ...
. Its administrative territory stretches over 11,778
hectare
The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100- metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is ...
s. It is composed of three villages: Chesinț (''Lippakeszi''), Neudorf (''Temesújfalu'') and Zăbrani (situated at 29 km from
Arad).
Population
According to the last census the population of the commune counts 4472 inhabitants, out of which 95.6% are Romanians, 1.7% Hungarians, 1.2% Germans, 1.3% Ukrainians and 0.2% are of other or undeclared nationalities.
History
In the archaeological site of Zăbrani two settlements from the palaeolithic period, respectively from the Iron Age. The first documentary record of Zăbrani dates back to 1080–1090. Chesinț was attested documentarily in 1334, while Neudorf in 1723.
Economy
Although the economy of the commune is mainly of agrarian type, based on livestock-breeding and olericulture, light industry and small industry are also well represented in its economic spectrum.
Tourism
The touristic potential of the town is one exceptional. Zăbrani commune has been included in the category of territorial administrative units with high concentrate of valuable built patrimony. Among the most important touristic sights of the commune we can mention the rural architectural complex in Zăbrani dating from the 9th century, the Roman Catholic church in the centre of Neudorf village (1771), the crypt of
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria in Neudorf (1809) with a funeral monument raised in 1841, as well as the memorial museum of
Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn, an outstanding personality of German literature.
Notable people
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Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn, writer
*
Gerhardt Csejka
Gerhardt Csejka (born 11 April 1945, in Zăbrani) is a German essayist and literary translator.
He has delivered lectures at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (1990-1992) and the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Th ...
, translator
*
Ernest Wichner, translator
References
Communes in Arad County
Localities in Crișana
Former Danube Swabian communities in Romania
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