Ceanu Mare
commune in Cluj County, Romania
Ceanu Mare (Hungarian: Mezőcsán; German: Gross-Tschaan) is a commune in the north-west of Romania, in Cluj County, Transylvania. It is composed of thirteen villages: Andici (depopulated since 1985; Andics), Boian (Mezőbő), Bolduț (Boldoc), Ceanu Mare, Ciurgău (Csurgó), Dosu Napului (Oláhtóhát), Fânațe (Csániszénafű), Hodăi-Boian (Mezőbőifogadó), Iacobeni (Mezőszentjakab), Morțești (Morcest), Stârcu (Csóka), Strucut (merged with Gherea in 1968; Sztinkutdűlő), and Valea lui Cati (Sárospatakdűlő).
The village is known in Germany after the Schröder family discovered that the father of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was buried there in a common grave in 1944. Lieutenant Fritz Schröder was a soldier in the German army during World War II and he died at the age of 32 near the city of Turda (Thorenburg in German) on 4 October 1944, without ever seeing his newborn son Gerhard.
Demographics
According to the census from 2002 there were 4,322 people living in this commune; of this population, 94.08% were ethnic Romanians, 3.51% ethnic Roma, and 2.36% ethnic Hungarians. At the 2021 census, Ceanu Mare had a population of 3,333; of those, 84.7% were Romanians and 1.41% Roma.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ceanu Mare” as commune in Cluj County, Romania. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as commune in Cluj County, Romania. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16426169. Authority coordinates are 46.655, 23.964. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985, 1968, 1944 and 2002.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ceanu Mare” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.