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Location of the municipality of Sânandrei in the district of Timiș
View of Sânandrei from northeast
Sânandrei on the Josephinian land recording (1769–1772)

Sanandrei or Sinandrei [ ‘Sɨnandrei ] (German Sanctandres or. St.-Andres , Hungarian Saintandrise ) is a municipality in the district of Timiș, in the Banat region, in the southwest of Romania.

The place is also among the German names Sanctandreas or. St.-Andreas known.

Sânandrei is located 12 km north of the district capital Timișoara (Temeswar) , has a connection to the National Road DN 69, 4 km further south via the DJ 692 district road and is located on the Timișoara – Arad.

Sânandrei is one of the oldest towns in the Timiș district. The place was first written in 1230 under the designation St. Andrea mentioned, archaeological finds testify to the existence of a settlement during the Neolithic period. In 1748 the first Germans were settled here, built in 1762 the Roman Catholic Church, which in 1811 received its current form after some conversions. In 1766 Frenchman was located in Sânandrei and another 42 German families in 1772. The Greek Orthodox Church was built in 1834.

On June 4, 1920, the Banat was divided into three divides due to Trianon’s contract. The biggest, eastern part, which also included Sanktangreas, fell on Romania. In 1923 the place received the official name Sânandrei.

As a result of the Waffen-SS Agreement of May 12, 1943 between the Antonescu government and Hitler-Germany, all men-born conscripts were moved into the German army. Before the end of the war, in January 1945, the deportation of all Volksdeutsche Women between the ages of 18 and 30 and men between the ages of 16 and 45 took place for development work in the Soviet Union. The soil Reform Act of March 23, 1945, which provided for the expropriation of German farmers in Romania, withdrawn from the rural population.

Population development [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

  • In 1910, Sânandrei had 5175 inhabitants, including 565 Romanians, 196 Hungary, 4392 Germans and 22 members of other nationalities.
  • In 2002 Sânandrei had 5371 inhabitants, including 5020 Romanians, 118 Hungary, 131 Germans and 102 others.
  • In 2011, 5717 people were registered in Sânandrei. 5014 of them were Romanians, 94 Hungary, 64 Germans, 30 Ukrainians, 26 Roma, 12 Serbs and 477 no information about their ethnicity. [first]

In the center around the church are the town hall, the school, the rectory, kindergarten, a doctor’s office, a pharmacy, the police station and the post office. In addition, there are several restaurants, shops and various craft businesses in the village.

  • Jakob Arz: Family book of the municipality of St. Andreas , Freiburg 2001
  • Ferdinand Müller: Saarland settler families in St. Andreas , Banat. Homburg 1979
  • Ferdinand Müller, Matthias Weber: Dorff family book Sankt Andreas. Sources of Banat settlement and family research , Homburg 1972
  • Karl F. Waldner, Matthias Weber: The settler families and their origin , Homburg 1980
  • Matthias Weber, Anton Peter Petri: Heimatbuch Sanktandres in the Banat , Marquartstein 1981. (at Worldcat: ISBN 3-922046-16-9)
  • Elke Hoffmann, Peter-Dietmar Leber and Walter Wolf: The Banat and the Banat Schwaben. Volume 5. Cities and villages , Media Group Universal Graphic Businesses Munich, Munich 2011, ISBN 3-922979-63-7.
  1. ↑ a b Coloneling 2011 in Romania (MS Excel; 1,3 MB).
  2. ↑ Employee bei to the Central Electoral Bureau , accessed on April 25, 2021 (Romanian).