Richiș

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Richiș

Total population

699

Elevation430 m

Coordinates46.10°, 24.48°

Demographic figures from INS Romania. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Biertan is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. The commune is composed of three villages: Biertan, Copșa Mare, and Richiș, each of which has a fortified church.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Michael Bielz

Transylvanian naturalist (1787-1866)

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Andreas Heldmann

(1688-1770)

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Johann Michael Salzer

Lutheran pastor in Alaska

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Martin Bertlef

Georg Meyndt

Transylvanian-Saxon author

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Hans-Hartwig Trojer

German World War II U-boat commander

J

Joseph Barth

German Protestant priest and botanist (1833-1915)

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Hans Molitoris

Austrian physician (1874-1972)

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Horst Schuller Anger

German philologist and journalist (sas) from Romania

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Hermann Phleps

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Friedrich Franz Salzer

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Mircea Tutovan-Codoi

Romanian volleyball player

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Ernst Thullner

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Karl Werner

Octavian Floca

Romanian archaeologist (1904-1983)

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Adolf Heltmann

parson (1848-1923)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Sibiu

• Nemșa
  2 mi away · pop. 515
• Biertan
  3.3 mi away · pop. 1,563
• Dupuș
  3.8 mi away · pop. 250
• Pelișor
  3.9 mi away · pop. 479
• Moșna
  4.1 mi away · pop. 1,893
• Copșa Mare
  4.1 mi away · pop. 482
• Alma Vii
  4.2 mi away · pop. 336
• Ațel
  4.2 mi away · pop. 1,277
• Zlagna
  4.6 mi away · pop. 173
• Buzd
  4.7 mi away · pop. 723
• Brateiu
  5.7 mi away · pop. 1,956
• Apoș
  5.8 mi away · pop. 246

Browse all places in Sibiu →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Western Honey Bee

Apis mellifera

Seen 2026-09-06

chicory

Cichorium intybus

Seen 2026-08-15

Neem

Azadirachta indica

Seen 2026-08-11

Japanese-lantern

Alkekengi officinarum

Seen 2026-08-07

marsh grass-of-Parnassus

Parnassia palustris

Seen 2026-07-29

Great burnet

Sanguisorba officinalis

Seen 2026-07-29

King Ranch bluestem

Bothriochloa ischaemum

Seen 2026-07-29

Marsh Sow-thistle

Sonchus palustris

Seen 2026-07-28

Allium marginatum

Allium marginatum

Seen 2026-07-27

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers