Cristuru Secuiesc

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Coordinates: 45°50′57″N 26°11′7″E / 45.84917, 26.18528
Cristuru Secuiesc Székelykeresztúr
Location of Cristuru Secuiesc
Country	Romania
County	Harghita County
Status	Town
Government
- Mayor	Lajos Benyovszki (Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania)
Population (2002)
- Total	9,672
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

View over the town

Cristuru Secuiesc or Székelykeresztúr (Romanian: Cristuru Secuiesc, Hungarian: Székelykeresztúr) is a town in Harghita County, Romania. The town was part of the former county of Udvarhely during the Kingdom of Hungary.

Administratively 2 villages belong to the town:

Beteşti/Betfalva

(joined the town after breaking away from the commune of Mugeni (Bögöz) in 2004.)

Filiaş/Fiatfalva

1 Demographics
2 1989-2008 (present)
3 Sights
4 External links

[edit] Demographics

As of the Romanian census of 2002, the town has a population of 9,672 of whom 9,201 (95.1%) are Székely Hungarians forming an absolute majority.

[edit] 1989-2008 (present)

During the late Communist times, the Childrens home in the town became the second largest in Romania. The children there were bullied by each other and the building began to collapse from the hardships it had to endure each day. In 1989, one teacher Tim Poole from Sunbury Manor School started to help the town get back on its feet. He gave the town assistance to reover from the hardships they faced in Communist times. 1990, he began taking students from the 10th and 11th years out with him for a week per year to show these students the town and life out there. The teacher got an M.B.E for his work in March 2008.