Alma Vii
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Alma Vii Almen Szászalmád |
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 Romania
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| Historical region : | Transylvania | ||||
| Circle : | Sibiu | ||||
| Municipality : | Moșna | ||||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 3 ' N , 24 ° 26' E | ||||
| Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | ||||
| Height : | 469 m | ||||
| Residents : | 367 (2002) | ||||
| Postal code : | 557161 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+40) 02 69 | ||||
| License plate : | SB | ||||
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| Community type : | Village | ||||
Alma Vii ( German Almen , Hungarian Szászalmád ) is a village in the Sibiu district in Transylvania , Romania . It is part of the municipality of Moșna ( Meschen ).
The place is also under the Romanian outdated names Alma Săsească and Alma Între Vii ; the Hungarian Almád , Szászalmás , Német-Almás and Almás , known.
Geographical location
Almen is located in the Transylvanian Basin on the upper reaches of the Calvas ( Kaltbach ) - a right tributary of the Vișa - between the Harbach highlands ( Podișul Hârtibaciului ) and the Kokel highlands ( Podișul Târnavelor ). In the north of Sibiu County, the village is on the village road ( drum comunal ) DC 12, seven kilometers southeast of the community center; two kilometers south of the county road ( drum județean ) DJ 141 from Mediaș ( Mediasch ) to Bârghiș ( Agnita ). The city of Mediaş is 17 kilometers northwest of Alma Vii.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1289 under the name Alma . For many centuries it was a village of the Transylvanian Saxons and for a long time belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary , the Principality of Transylvania and Austria . In 1523 the Hungarian King Ludwig II. Almen waived taxes for three years after a fire. After the end of the First World War, what was then Alma Săsească came to Romania. In the 1980s and 1990s, most of the Transylvanian Saxons emigrated from the village to Germany. In addition to the numerous meetings in Germany, the first meeting in Alma Vii took place in August 2017.
population
In 1532 there were 57 innkeepers in Almen. In 1850 there were 542 inhabitants in the village, of whom 330 were Germans, 134 Romanians and 78 Roma . In 1941 the largest number of residents was registered with 682; 435 of them were Germans. The highest number of Germans (451) was counted in 1930, that of Romanians in 2002 and that of Roma (196) in 1992. In 2002, of the only 367 residents, 286 identified themselves as Romanians, 70 as Roma, 5 as Hungarians , 4 as Ukrainians and 2 as Germans. Today the place is mainly inhabited by Romanians and Roma.
Attractions
- The towerless Gothic hall church, built at the beginning of the 14th century, later expanded (most recently in 1804) and the fortified church castle, are under monument protection.
Fortified church and office around 196x,
... around 2008, view from the south
literature
- Hermann Fabini : Atlas of the Transylvanian-Saxon fortified churches and village churches. Volume 2 = illustrated book. Monumenta-Verlag et al. Hermannstadt 1999, ISBN 3-929848-15-5 (Also parallel: AKSL, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 973-98825-0-1 ).
- Erwin Amlacher: Defense structure function and systematics of Transylvanian-Saxon church and farm castles. A contribution to European castle studies (= publications of the Institute for German Culture and History of Southeast Europe (IKGS). Scientific series, vol. 95). IKGS-Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-88356-159-2 .
- Arne Franke: The defensive Sachsenland. Fortified churches in southern Transylvania. With a historical introduction by Harald Roth. German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe, Potsdam 2005, ISBN 3-936168-27-X .
- Mathias Pelger: Alpine pastures in Transylvania: 700 years of history. Heimatbuch, Heimatortsgemeinschaft Almen, 2000.
- Ferdinand Führer and Roland van Oystern : A day of hail and always something to eat: A Romania diary. Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2016, ISBN 978-3-95575-056-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dictionary of localities from Transylvania
- ^ A b Almen in Transylvania , private page, accessed on November 5, 2009
- ^ History in the web presentation of the municipality of Moșna , accessed on November 4, 2012 (Romanian).
- ^ Website of the village of Alma Vii , accessed on October 26, 2017.
- ↑ Censuses in Transylvania 1850–2002 (PDF; 596 kB) accessed on November 4, 2012 (Hungarian)
- ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (PDF; 7.10 MB)
- ^ Alpine pastures in Transylvania: 700 years of history on Google Books