Vurpar
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Vurpar is a village of 2500 people (2006) in central Romania.
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[edit] Situation
It is near the Transylvanian city of Sibiu.
[edit] Type of Community
Vurpar is a farming community with an elementary school, a kindergarten and two churches, one Romanian Orthodox and the other Saxon (German) Evangelical.
[edit] Self-sufficiency
While they may occasionally need to buy supplies in Sibiu, villagers are nearly self-sufficient raising their own meat, making their own wine, baking their own bread and reserving other food from harvest to harvest.
[edit] Additional features
The village also has a number of small general stores, a city hall, a soccer field, numerous small restaurants and taverns, playgrounds and miles of surrounding open farmland.
[edit] Directions
It is a peaceful, quite community at the end of a country road ten miles off the main road from Sibu to Agnita. The old rail lines from Sibiu, abandoned decades ago, still show. There is daily bus service from Sibiu.
[edit] Employment
Today, most of the people in the village work gardens and keep live stock.
[edit] Previous employment
The village was once the site of a collectivized processing plant for fruits and vegetables.
[edit] Ethnicity
The current population is largely Romanians with a large plurality of Gypsy and a small minority of Germans.
[edit] Organisational Structure
The village has a mayor and a council.
[edit] Subsidiary organisations
There are also a number of non-governmental social service organizations working in the village.
[edit] Foundation
Vurpar was founded sometime in the 1200s.
[edit] Alternative name
The name Vurprich was also used.
[edit] Other alternatives
It has also been known as Burgberg by the long dominant German population.
[edit] History
After World War II many of the German families returned to West Germany.
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