Resita

 municipality, draw only border, county seat

Resita is the resident city of Caras-Severin County, located in the center of it, being crossed by the Bârzava River. The total area is 19,834 ha of which 1902 ha is built and has 6 belonging districts: Secu, Doman, Moniom, Cuptoare, Ţerova, Câlnic. Located at the foot of Mount Semenic, Resita is a starting point to known areas of interest: Semenic, Three Waters, Crivaia and Secu.
Resita is the oldest steel industry center of Romania and one of the most important industrial cities in southeastern Europe. Today's picture impresses the viewer by construction and civil engineering, landscape architecture recovery, as can be seen in photos.
Stable population of Resita is 84.026 inhabitants of which the urban population - 79,869 and the rural population – 4157

Brief History

Historically speaking, the place is known since the fifteenth century, the name Recsicza and Reshycha. It is mentioned in 1673, 1690-1700, and the Census of 1717 is labeled with the name Retziza, with 62 houses. Since 1771, when they set up factories, Resita became the polarizing center of the entire area.

Initially, there were two villages close: Resita Română and Resita Montana. Plants were placed in Resita Montana, inhabited by Romanian coal miners (cărbunari). Later, in 1776, here were settled 70 German families originating from Styria, Carinthia and Upper Austria and later, in the period 1782-1787, German families of the Rhine region.

The development of the two parts of the city led to the formation of an industrial town, a factory town, with distinct social, economic and cultural particularities.

In 1771, the two Resita had 750 inhabitants. In 1871, in Resita lived 7600 people and in 1910, the town had 17,384 souls. The population increased rapidly after the second world war, especially on account of migration increase, reaching in 1971 68,860 inhabitants. In 1989, Resita had 110,260 inhabitants.




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Why invest in Resita

Resita is relatively close to many European capitals. Thus, some of them may be listed with corresponding distances calculated for return by customs Nadlac Arad County:


Budapest - 414 km
Vienna - 666 km
Berlin - 1281 km
Warsaw - 1006 km
Bratislava - 604 km
Madrid - 2748 km
London - 2130 km
Amsterdam - 1831 km
Belgrade - 182 km, with exit to the customs Naidăş
Sofia - 408 km, with output in the south
Athens - 1148 km, with output in the south
Bucharest - 500 km

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Transport infrastructure is provided by:

Road Network:
Resita has a road network totaling 120 km of urban roads, being crossed by national, county and municipal roads, as follows:
• DN 58 B NW direction to Timisoara (110 km);
• DN 58 to NE direction and the direction S Caransebes to Anina;

• DJ 581 in the direction V to Oravita;

• 582 DJ's direction to mount Semenic Văliug resorts and Three Waters (“Trei Ape”);

• DC 92 to resort Secu.

Railway Network consists of:
• South Resita Resita electrified lines north-Caransebes.
• North Resita Berzovia non-electrified line-read-Voiteni-Timisoara North.

Air transport is provided by the Timisoara airport (110 km from Resita) the largest international airport in western Romania and Caransebes airport (40 km from Resita) provides charter flights.

Water transport is provided by the Danube port of Moldova Veche, at 97 km from Resita.

Points of crossing state border

Throughout Caras-Severin territory there are two border crossing points:
- Border crossing point for traffic on the Danube River in the Port of Moldova Veche, at 97 km from Resita
- Road border crossing point to the Republic of Serbia at Naidãs - 69 km from Resita.

Exit to other European countries is carried out by neighboring counties:

-Timis County Road via Moravia and Cenad;

-Through the Nadlac-Arad county for road signs and point the Court to Traffic.

Renewable natural resources of the area are:

• hydro facilities on the upper part of the Bîrzava River on the first 50 km from its source by Gozna, Secu and Breazova lakes and Three Waters Lake on the Superior Timis River, which are the supply water of Resita;

• woody vegetation (forest) which goes in the eastern city almost to the periphery and including a variety of species, both softwood (pine black pine, duglas and others) and deciduous specific to the highway hills with beech (best wood in Europe) mixed with hornbeam, lime and oak.;

• forests around Resita host species of wildlife hunting interest, such as foxes, wild boar, wolf, deer, and other rafters and many species of birds, some of these forests being declared Nature Reserves type forest.

Location in a natural setting, the presence of well-known nearby tourist areas: Semenic and Caraş Keys are advantages for the future development of tourism. Semenic Tourist Area includes the following sub areas:
• Semenic Plateau (1400 m altitude) located at a distance of only 35 km from the city is favorable for winter sports, with beds in hotels and villas.
• Breazova - Crivaia sub-area includes two lakes: Breazova and Văliug and tourist bases from the banks of lakes.
• Three Waters sub-area includes waters and lake resort with the same names and places and Brebu Gărâna New, suitable for recreation, hiking and water sports.
• Secu sub-area is emerging around the lake and is the place for spending weekends for Reşiţa’s inhabitants.

Investment opportunities in Resita:

Industry:

- Construction of machines;
- Steel;
- Clothing;
- Civil engineering;

Services

- Catering;
- National and international transport;
-Tourism.

Priority areas of cooperation:

- Economy;

- Culture;

- Education;

- Jobs Conversion.

Activities that may take place:

Wood industry is an area that can be developed considering the proximity of forested areas that are intensive forest exploitation. There is a good network of suppliers of raw wood and there are created prerequisites for good cooperation with them.

Processing wood waste and paper is timely considering forest exploitation that creates significant quantities of waste that can be processed by the superior processing.

Production of building materials is one sector that can provide a recovery of capital due to investment in infrastructure and construction, which will have an expansion in the coming years, after overcoming the crisis period.

Production in the clothing industry offers highly-skilled labor, considering the continuity, over the years, of the production of garments, in Lohn system for foreign markets.

Milk processing can be reactivated in the city considering that there was in Resita a dairy processing plant.

Agro companies can benefit from natural and unadulterated potential and highly qualified staff and by structured investment may lead to the development of the area and to create substantial profits.

Production of parts and components for the automotive industry may be another alternative investment, which can use well qualified workforce available as a result of redundancies in the large mechanical and metallurgical companies located in the city...