Petreşti, Satu Mare
In 1740, count Sándor Károlyi colonized the village with a German population. In the commune, tourists can visit the Petrești Swabian Museum, a household typical of traditional Swabian architecture.
Demographics
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 1,168 | — |
| 1890 | 1,283 | +9.8% |
| 1900 | 1,409 | +9.8% |
| 1910 | 1,455 | +3.3% |
| 1920 | 1,518 | +4.3% |
| 1930 | 1,588 | +4.6% |
| 1941 | 1,801 | +13.4% |
| 1956 | 2,641 | +46.6% |
| 1966 | 2,848 | +7.8% |
| 1977 | 2,641 | −7.3% |
| 1992 | 1,929 | −27.0% |
| 2002 | 1,683 | −12.8% |
| 2011 | 1,588 | −5.6% |
| 2021 | 1,388 | −12.6% |
| Source: Census data | ||
At the 2002 census, the commune had a population of 1,683; of those, 794 (47.17%) were Hungarians, 530 (31.49%) Germans (Sathmar Swabians), 199 (11.82%) Romanians, and 159 (9.44%) Roma. According to mother tongue, 73% spoke Hungarian as their first language, while 14.31% spoke German and 12.65% of the population spoke Romanian. At the 2011 census, there were 1,588 inhabitants, of which 46.91% were Hungarians, 27.33% Germans, 12.53% Romanians, and 10.52% Roma. At the 2021 census Petrești had a population of 1,388; of those, 39.55% were Germans, 39.05% were Hungarians, 10.66% Romanians, and 5.19% Roma.
Administration
The current local council has the following political composition, based on the results of the votes cast at the 2024 Romanian local elections.
| Party | Seats | Current Council | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR) | 11 | ||||||||||||
References
- ^ "Populaţia rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021" (XLS). National Institute of Statistics.
- ^ Romanian census data, 2002; retrieved on March 22, 2010
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-01-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Populația rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021" (in Romanian). INSSE. 31 May 2023.
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Saint Elisabeth Church in Petrești -
Saint John of Nepomuk Chapel in Petrești
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