Bogda
Bogda is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Altringen, Bogda, Buzad, Charlottenburg, Comeat, and Sintar.Geography
Bogda is located near the border with Arad County in the historic Banat region, about northeast of Timișoara.
| In Romanian | In German | In Hungarian |
| Altringen | Altringen | Kisrékas |
| Bogda | Neuhof | Rigósfürdő |
| Buzad | | Buzád |
| Charlottenburg | Charlottenburg | Saroltavár |
| Comeat | Lichtenwald | Temeskomját |
| Sintar | Buchberg | Bükkhegy |
History
The area was first mentioned as Bagd in a 1436 deed. Part of the Habsburg Banat of Temeswar upon the 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz, the settlement appeared as Bogdan in a 1723 chart. In 1770/71 Banat Swabian colonists from Germany settled here in a place called Neuhoff. By the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, the area fell to the Kingdom of Romania.
Under its Hungarian name Bogdarigós, it was the site of a well-known health spa including a chapel and a way of the cross, which existed until the 1948 expropriations in the Socialist Republic of Romania. The spa later became a Young Pioneer camp, but after the Romanian Revolution of 1989 it was abandoned and destroyed. The commune itself has developed into a resort town of wealthy people of Timișoara.
