Bod, Brașov

Bod
Commune

Coat of arms
Bod
Coordinates: 45°46′N 25°39′E / 45.767°N 25.650°E / 45.767; 25.650
Country  Romania
County Brașov County
Population (2011)[1] 3,771
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)

Bod (German: Brenndorf; Hungarian: Botfalu) is a commune in Brașov County, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Bod and Colonia Bod (Botfalusi Cukorgyártelep). At Bod there is one of Romania's largest sugar factories and a broadcasting transmitter for long- and medium-wave radio, the Bod Transmitter. In Bod, the lowest ever recorded temperature in Romania, -38.5 degrees Celsius (-37 Fahrenheit), was measured in January 1942.

At the 2011 census, 89.6% of inhabitants were Romanians, 8.5% Hungarians and 1.1% Germans.

Natives

  • Damasus Dürr (1537-1585), humanist
  • Reinhardt Schuster (b. 1936), painter

References

  1. ↑ Romanian census data, 2011 Archived July 23, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.; retrieved on March 17, 2012

Coordinates: 45°46′N 25°39′E / 45.767°N 25.650°E / 45.767; 25.650


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