Highway 69 runs from Timisoara to
Arad, straight through
Orzydorf, known as Main Street
(photo seem on our homepage).
From Timisoara the
distance is 24.4
(km) / 15.15 (miles). Today there are about 700 houses,
with a population of about
4000. There are still several German families remaining in Orzydorf.
The neighboring villages are
Kalatscha, Mercydorf, Winga and
Manester.
Orzydorf, today is situated in
Timis, Romania, its geographical
coordinates are lat. 45° 57' 49"
North, long. 21° 11' 54" East and
its original name (with diacritics)
is Orţişoara. See below, the aerial
photograph of Ortisoara in Romania.
Name
Variants:
German:
Orzidorf/Orzydorf, Hungary in Banat - Hungarian:
Orczifálva/Orcifálva [used in passenger records pre-1918] - Official:
Ortisoara, Romania [30km NNE of Temeswar]
Founded: by 1333
The church is consecrated
to "Heiliger Hubertus" (St. Hubert)
Village name in FHL records:
Orzidorf, Orcifalva - Microfilm Nr. 1190325, 1190326, 1190367
Church records available at FHL:
Christenings 1785-1841, Marriages 1785-1876, Deaths 1785-1847
Church records available at IfA, Stuttgart:
same as above
1: Jan 2005 - Austrian
environmental services company SW Umwelttechnik AG said it would expand
its production Austrian environmental services company SW Umwelttechnik
AG said it would expand its production facilities in Romania. The
company will invest around 2 million Euro over the next two years in
building a sewerage systems factory at Ortisoara in Romania. SW
Umwelttechnik already supplies water conservation products to Romania.
The company also said that
its subsidiary, OMS Hungaria Kft., has won an order to build a drinking
water network in the Zalau area, near Cluj in Romania. The project,
totaling 7 million Euro, is financed by the European Union and involves
laying about 50km of pipes, rehabilitating drinking water reservoirs and
installing pumping stations.
2:
On September 27,
Austrian Group SW-Umwelttechnik A.G will officially open, at
Ortisoara (10 km
from Timisoara) a 2 million new plant, producing concrete prefabs
(sewerage cannulars, hydrocarbs separators, trimming rings).
Leader on the Austrian
and Hungarian market, 723 employees SW-Umwelttechnik Group operates six
factories in Austria, six in Hungary and one plant in the Slovak
Republic.
3: In March of
fiscal 2004, Smithfield Foods, Inc. acquired
Smithfield Procesare S.R.L. (formerly
Agrotorvis). Smithfield Procesare S.R.L. has hog production and pork
processing assets in Romania.
HEADQUARTERS:
Polona street, No.
4, Code: 300523, Timisoara, ROMANIA
4:
Timis county has rich
and various natural resources: lignite ores (at Sinersig), basalt (at
Lucaret-Sanovita), manganese (at Pietroasa), clay (at Biled, Carpinis, and
Jimbolia), oil and natural gas (at Biled, Satchinez, and
Ortisoara), sand (at
Sag), glass sand (at Grosi-Faget, Tomesti, and Gladna), mineral waters (at
Buzias, Calacea, Ivanda, Bogda, and Timisoara). *Timis
County - Geography and history:
http://forum.europa.eu.int/irc/dsis/regportraits/info/data/en/ro054_geo.htm
In order to be able to
operate internationally , the SCHROEDER-group has a base together with the
MEWI Import-Export GmbH in Ortisoara near Timisoara in Romania, concentrated
on the sales of second-hand machinery.
http://www.schroeder-gruppe.de/mewi/frameset.htm
6:
In Hungary the South
Budapest pipe works are currently under construction. Once commissioned in
mid-2005 the factory — the most modern of its kind in the country — will
enable SW Umwelttechnik to extend its market leadership. * A factory will be
built for the Water Conservation sector in Ortisoara, Romania, in the second
half of 2005.
http://www.presseportal.ch/de/story.htx?nr=100486642&firmaid=100004056&lang=2
