2002-2007

2002 – Rimetea and Coltesti are connected to the internet network

2004 – A children orphanage is built in one of the Upper Street Houses in the main square in Rimetea

2007 – A traditional sekler style guest house opens in Coltesti (Sekler’s Stone Guest House)

1996-2000

1996 – Transylvania Trust Foundation organizes highlighting all the houses in Rimetea which are considered to be arhitectural monuments.

1997 – Rimetea connects to cable TV and in Coltesti opens a milk processing factory

1998 – The best and complex touristical guide about Rimetea, since 1927, appears in the libraries: ”Torockoi utikalauz” by Irén Hantz Lám.

2000 – a number of 137 houses are awared with Europa Nostra Prize

1990-1995

1990 – The hungarian Library from Veszprém donates 3.300 books to the comunity from Rimetea

1993 – Tobiás House – the recreational foundation of the Brassai Samuel College in Cluj-Napoca- is inaugurated

1995 – An art gallery (Tobias Eva Gallery) opens in Rimetea’s City Hall building, with the painting exhibition of Albert Vass (1896-1969)

1954-1969

Modernizations in Rimetea

1954 – Professor Pál Györbiró establishes the Ethnographic Museum in Rimtetea

1960 – 1962  – The road from Aiud to Buru is built and a local power plant provide energy for the houses in Rimetea

1965 – A cinema building is built in the village

1968 – Thelephony system is introduced in Rimetea

1969 – Coltesti and Rimetea are connected to the electricity grid

1903-1911

The village of Coltesti tries to modernize

1903 – there is instaled a water pipe which brings drinkable water from a spring found in the garden of Trascaului Fortress near Coltesti

1905 – villagers buy a tresher and a two-stoned mill mechanism, Mozes Fodor opens a human-veterinary pharmacy

1908 – a credit and consumption bank is opened, Viktor Thoroczkay starts building a 3 store castle 

1911 – first iron plough is used in Coltesti

1849-1870

1849 – Romanian villagers from the neighbour settlement Valisoara organise a revenge attack over Coltesti. They think on a  strategic plan: they set on fire all the haystacks and weath fields around Coltesti, kill all the hungarian messengers sent for negociation, vandalise all the houses in the village, steal posesions and carry them by carriages.

The whole village of Coltesti is destroied.

1870 – A big fire burns down all the houses from the Upper Street in the main square of Rimetea.

The newly built houses made out of stone will become the famous ”white houses” from Rimetea.

1812-1844

The greatest period for the education in Rimetea. The school is run by chancellar Pál Sebes. 

Great personalities study at this well knows school in Rimetea: Sámuel Brassai jr., János Kriza and Gheorghe Barițiu. Teaching language is still latin.

1836– Sándor Thoroczkay senior builds a wonderful manison in Coltesti. As there were no further descendants of this family, the manison becomes property of the Rudnyánsky family (by marriage).

1783

Emperor Joseph II visits the iron mines from Rimetea and the villagers handed him an official document in which they ask for release from serfrom bondage.

Their high expectations are not answered.  

1727

György Thorocykay and his wife Krisztina Pekri, build at Coltesti a chapel and a monestery dedicated to Virgin Mary.

Istvan Thorocykay, Ferencz Rákóczi’s general, is buried in the chapel’s vault.  

1718

János Nagy, a great blacksmith master, forges an iron tower clock which shows both time and date. 

Clock’s mechanism weights aproximately 60 kg.