Nădrag

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Field	Value
type	commune
county	Timiș
population_total	auto
image_map	Nadrag jud Timis.svg
map_caption	Location in Timiș County
name	Nădrag
leader_name	Liviu Muntean
leader_term	2004–
leader_party	PSD
coordinates
image_skyline	Biserica din Crivina.jpg
image_caption	The church in Crivina
image_shield	ROU TM Nadrag CoA.PNG
area_footnotes
area_total_km2	132.5
postal_code	307290–307291
website
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Geography

Nădrag is located in the northeastern part of Timiș County, at the foot of the 1,380 m in the Poiana Ruscă Mountains. Nădrag has a generally hilly relief, with mostly steeper slopes. It covers an area of 13,250 ha, of which 623 ha represent agricultural land; 247 ha, in turn, are arable.

Hydrography

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Nădrag is crossed by the Padeș stream, which receives as tributaries several small streams: Cornet (near the center of the village), Izvodea (right in the center of the village), Haiduca (about 500 m downstream) and Nădrăgel (at the exit to Crivina). Padeș springs right near the peak of the same name, in the place called "Seven Springs" (). Its length, calculated from springs, is about 34 km, including the part from the confluence with Cornet to Jdioara and Criciova, where it flows into Timiș River as Nădrag stream.

Climate

Although situated between hills and valleys, the influence of cyclones in the Mediterranean is felt quite strongly in Nădrag, bringing warm autumns and early thaws along the valleys. The average annual temperature is 9.8 C. The coldest month of the year is January when average temperatures of -2.8 C are recorded, and the warmest is July when the average temperature reaches around 21 C. The average annual rainfall is about 924 mm. The lowest amounts of monthly precipitation fall in February, March, August, September and October, and the highest in June and July. During the winter the precipitations fall predominantly in the form of snow in amounts that vary between 5-25 cm, rarely exceeding 50-75 cm.

Flora and fauna

The spontaneous vegetation of the Poiana Ruscă Mountains presents elements belonging to various floristic domains: elements specific to Central Europe (beech forests), to Eastern Europe (steppes with grasses), to the Mediterranean (edible chestnut, wild lilac), elements from the sub-Carpathian lands (conifers, especially spruce), as well as elements from the Balkan lands (several species of oak, including Quercus cerris and Q. frainetto).

The beech and oak forests are populated with a series of animal species such as: fox, wolf, wild boar, squirrel, wildcat, deer, marten, etc. Birds found here include: woodpecker, cuckoo, jay, tit, eagle, capercaillie, black grouse, etc. In the forests of Nădrag, in the vicinity of the forests of Rușchița and Obreja, several families of red deer have been reported, and in Padeș some specimens of bears, passed in these territories from the forests of Hațeg and Hunedoara. Indigenous trout and rainbow trout are present on the watercourses, especially the Padeș and Cornet streams. Downstream of Nădrag, other fish species appear: chub, barbel, pike and perch, especially in the Crivina area towards Jdioara.

History

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The first recorded mention of Nădrag dates from 1364, in a report of the chapter from Arad, when Nodrag was a Hungarian royal property. Another mention from the Middle Ages is from 1548, when Queen Isabella Jagiellon made several donations to the prefect of Temes Petru Petrovici in Szörény County. There was also a fortress here that was destroyed in the Turkish era.

The existing ores in the area have been mined since ancient times. But modern mining in the area began only in 1845, when a Viennese company built the Zsidóvári vasgyár ironworks with its headquarters in Nădrag. The locality was developed on account of this industrial activity and was re-established on the place of the older hearth of the village. At first the factory hired German settlers sent to Banat by the Viennese company, but later Slovaks, Hungarians, Romanians and even Roma arrived, each group forming its own colony. However, most workers and miners remained German.

In 1865, for unknown reasons, locals burned over 800 ha of forest between Nădrag and Crivina, thus reducing the forested area that then covered most of the commune. In 1879 the mining company became the Nădrag Iron Industrial Company and continued its development. Thus, between 1880–1923, blast furnaces, steelworks, a foundry, a rolling mill, a machine factory and an agricultural machinery factory are built. After the union of Banat with Romania, the factory was reorganized and became part of Titan–Nădrag–Călan company. In 1938, this company had almost 5,000 employees, a large part of them in Nădrag. During the interwar period, the steel-making sections developed and more and more Romanians settled in Nădrag, who came to hold the relative majority in the 1940s.

After World War II, Nădrag and its factory will be developed within the country's industrialization plan according to the principles of the centralized economy. The Ciocanul factory becomes the most important in the area and attracts more and more inhabitants. Over the span of two decades, the population of Nădrag almost doubles, and the locality begins to have the features of a small industrial town. In addition, surveys have highlighted reserves of useful minerals in the area: gold, silver, cobalt, chromium, uranium, in addition to those of iron, lead and zinc mined earlier. The apogee of industrial development took place in the 1980s, and after the Revolution of 1989, the factory was closed, followed by an explosion of unemployment and implicitly by the exodus of the inhabitants to other localities.

Demographics

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Census	Ethnic composition	Year	Population	Romanians	Hungarians	Germans	Ukrainians
1880	1,952	823	63	610	–	–	302
1890	2,177	891	94	801	–	–	213
1900	2,659	1,234	78	1,071	2	–	149
1910	2,423	1,053	149	974	–	–	156
1920	2,127	960	65	1,016	–	–	–
1930	1,982	1,016	135	602	–	–	164
1941	1,909	1,017	123	415	–	–	–
1956	2,524	1,763	143	318	6	30	195
1966	3,647	2,730	233	412	41	35	128
1977	3,598	2,801	214	424	40	21	51
1992	3,634	3,036	155	353	46	1	19
2002	2,928	2,540	122	220	28	–	6
2011	2,836	2,547	74	94	27	–	–
2021	2,371	2,148	41	16	–	–	–
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Politics and administration

The commune of Nădrag is administered by a mayor and a local council composed of 10 councilors. The mayor, Liviu Muntean, from the Social Democratic Party, has been in office since 2004. As from the 2024 local elections, the local council has the following composition by political parties: ::data[format=table]

Party	Seats	Composition
Social Democratic Party (Romania)}}"		Social Democratic Party
Save Romania Union (2022)}}"		Save Romania Union–People's Movement Party–Force of the Right
National Liberal Party (Romania)}}"		National Liberal Party
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References

"Strategia de dezvoltare a comunei Nădrag". Primăria comunei Nădrag.
Pesty, Frigyes. (1882). "Krassó vármegye története". Athenaeum R. Társ. Könyvnyomdája.
"Prezentare". Primăria comunei Nădrag.
"Populația rezidentă după etnie". Institutul Național de Statistică.
"Populația rezidentă după religie". Institutul Național de Statistică.
Varga, E. Árpád. "Temes megye településeinek etnikai (anyanyelvi/nemzetiségi) adatai 1880-2002".
"Alegeri locale 2024". Rezultate Vot.

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