Planul Borroczyn. Scurt istoric / The Borroczyn plan. A short history, pag.59-74
Planul Borroczyn. Scurt istoric / The Borroczyn plan. A short history, pag.59-74

Summary/Abstract: Rudolf Arthur von Borroczyn was a Russian officer of German descentwho after participating in the Russian-Ottoman war of 1828-1829 settled in Wallachia, where he worked as military and later civil topographical engineer. In 1844 he was assigned with the mapping of Bucharest, a task whose fulfilment brought him the headship of the Engineering Department within the Internal Affairs Ministry. Whereas the current surface of Bucharest is 228 sq. km., that measured by Borroczyn in 1846 was 79.52 sq. km., as it is indicated by Johann Ferdinand Neigebauer in The Description of Moldavia and Wallachia, published in Leipzig in 18481. The disproportion is big, but all European capitals have, throughout time, known expansions of their inhabited surface which are even more spectacular. As for the population, Bucharest had in 1846 a bit more than 100.000 inhabitants, according to the census of 2010 it numbered no less than 1.926.334 inhabitants and based on that of 2012 it had 1.883.400 inhabitants.

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