Brassó County

Brassó County Brassó vármegye Komitat Kronstadt Comitatul Braşov
County of the Kingdom of Hungary
1876–1920 →
Coat of arms
Capital		Brassó 45°39′N 25°35′E / 45.650°N 25.583°E / 45.650; 25.583Coordinates: 45°39′N 25°35′E / 45.650°N 25.583°E / 45.650; 25.583
History
•	Established	1876
•	Treaty of Trianon	June 4, 1920
Area
•	1910	1,492 km2 (576 sq mi)
Population
•	1910	101,109
	Density	67.8 /km2  (175.5 /sq mi)
Today part of		Romania
Braşov is the current name of the capital.

Brassó was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (south-eastern Transylvania). The capital of the county was Brassó (Braşov in Romanian, Kronstadt in German).

Geography

Brassó county shared borders with Romania and the Hungarian counties Fogaras, Nagy-Küküllő and Háromszék. The river Olt formed part of its northern border. The ridge of the southern Carpathian Mountains forms its southern border. Its area was 1499 km² around 1910.

Demographics

In 1900, the county had a population of 95,565 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:^[1]

Total:

• Romanian: 33,886 (35,5%)
• Hungarian: 31,191 (32,6%)
• German: 29,415 (30,8%)
• Slovak: 222 (0,2%)
• Serbian: 33 (0,0%)
• Croatian: 14 (0,0%)
• Ruthenian: 3 (0,0%)
• Other or unknown: 801 (0,8%)

According to the census of 1900, the county was composed of the following religious communities:^[2]

Total:

• Lutheran: 42,082 (44,0%)
• Eastern Orthodox: 33,901 (35,5%)
• Roman Catholic: 10,675 (11,2%)
• Calvinist: 4,484 (5,7%)
• Jewish: 1,291 (1,4%)
• Greek Catholic: 1,075 (1,1%)
• Unitarian: 1,030 (1,1%)
• Other or unknown: 27 (0,0%)

In 1910, county had a population of 101,109 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:^[3]

Total:

• Hungarian: 35,372 (35,0%)
• Romanian: 35,091 (34,7%)
• German: 29,542 (29,2%)
• Slovak: 184 (0,2%)
• Serbian: 22
• Croatian: 19
• Ruthenian: 18
• Other or unknown: 951 (0,9%)

According to the census of 1910, the county was composed of the following religious communities:^[4]

Total:

• Eastern Orthodox: 42,901 (42,4%)
• Lutheran: 35,585 (35,2%)
• Roman Catholic: 11,886 (11,8%)
• Calvinist: 6,854 (6,8%)
• Jewish: 1,503 (1,5%)
• Unitarianist: 1,441 (1,4%)
• Greek Catholic: 979 (0,9%)
• Other or unknown: 50 (0,0%)

History

The Brassó/Kronstadt region was settled by German colonists since the 12th century. Brassó county was formed in 1876, when the administrative structure of Transylvania was changed. In 1920, by the Treaty of Trianon the county became part of Romania. Its territory lies in the present Romanian county Braşov.

Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Brassó county were:

Counties of the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen
Kingdom of Hungary	Abaúj-Torna Alsó-Fehér Arad Árva Bács-Bodrog Baranya Bars Békés Bereg Beszterce-Naszód Bihar Borsod Brassó Csanád Csík Csongrád Esztergom Fejér Fogaras Gömör-Kishont Győr Hajdú Háromszék Heves Hont Hunyad Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Kis-Küküllő Kolozs Komárom Krassó-Szörény Liptó Máramaros Maros-Torda Moson Nagy-Küküllő Nógrád Nyitra Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun Pozsony Sáros Somogy Sopron Szabolcs Szatmár Szeben Szepes Szilágy Szolnok-Doboka Temes Tolna Torda-Aranyos Torontál Trencsén Turóc Udvarhely Ugocsa Ung Vas Veszprém Zala Zemplén Zólyom
Corpus separatum	Fiume
Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia	Bjelovar-Križevci Lika-Krbava Modruš-Rijeka Požega Srijem Varaždin Virovitica Zagreb