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Reghin
is located in the wide course of the Mures River, at the confluence
with the Gurghiu River, opening up in an amphitheatre shape
on the western bank of the Mures River. The surface of the town
has extended in time through the valley situated on the left
bank.
In the municipality of Reghin,
vestiges of multi-level settlements dating from the Neolithic
were discovered - stone axes, ceramic fragments - as well as
vestiges dating from the Bronze Age and from the Geto-Dacian
Age. A roman coin collection and the vestiges of a mud castle
dating from the 8th-9th century were also discovered. Starting
with the 12th century, Reghin and its surrounding areas were
colonized by the Saxons, and the town is mentioned in 1228 under
the name of Regun. The coexistence with the Saxons coming from
the Rhin valley brought along deep changes in the life and future
of the settlement. Although it was plundered several times,
it recovered each time, becoming even stronger. In 1300, the
town was the capital of a religious deanery, and in 1332 it
was the meeting place of the Catholic clerics.
In 1427 it was known as a borough
- oppidum Regen, and in the 16th century it became a handicraft
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Due
to the construction of the Târgu Mures - Reghin railroad
in 1885, and then another one on the route to Deda, Reghin underwent
a remarkable development. In 1853, in Reghin, a rafting commercial
company, with connections to Mures and Gurghiu, was opened,
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In
November 1994 Reghin was declared a municipality. It is now
an important economic center as well as a strong cultural center
that influences the entire hill and mountain area of the county.
It has an electrical heating power station, wood and construction
materials industrial units. It stands out due to the fact that
it produces musical instruments, boats, sport equipment, chipboards,
furniture, shoes, milk powder, beer and fruit juice. It is an
important fruit-growing center.
Reghin also has a natural sciences
and an ethnographic museum, with an impressive collection of
painted Easter eggs. The Reghin library has a remarkable collection
of books, an inheritance of its cultural-historical life, a
wide collection of old and rare books, as well as collections
of modern books, ranging from literature to technical books.
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As
far as tourism is concerned, Reghin is very well represented.
The Evangelical Church, whose construction started in 1300,
as a Roman church, and ended in 1330, featuring several gothic
changes from the 16th and 18th century, has a 47 m tower featuring
a 19th century clock. The parish house dates from 1670. The
Orthodox Church "Sfântul Nicolae", built in
1744, with its paintings in a popular style and its religious
icons, the Roman Catholic Church, built in 1781 in a late baroque
style, repainted in 1968; the reformed Church; the Orthodox
Church "Sfânta Treime", built by Petru Maior
and finished in 1811; the statue of Petru Maior, who lived in
Reghin, Luppa Capitolina raised 1994, all can be visited here.
A 15th century castle, rebuilt in the 19th century, built in
the Renaissance style, with baroque elements, in the middle
of a park filled with very rare trees, can be found in Apalina,
as well as a Roman Catholic Church. In the Iernuteni neighborhood
there is the "Adormirea Maicii Domnului" Orthodox
Church sanctified on the 20th of August 1995 by His Beatitude
Teoctist, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Romania. In the
center of the town, a memorial plaque for Richard Wagner, former
head of the Berlin Conservatory, born in Reghin in 1903, was
inaugurated. This is also the birthplace of Augustin Maior,
(1882-1964) inventor of the multiple telephony - "Telegraphy,
high frequency multiple telephony" ("Telegrafie, telefonie
multipla cu inalta frecventa"). "Padurea Rotunda",
a very popular leisure place, can also be found in the vicinity
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