Bezidu Nou
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Bezidu Nou Neudorf Bözödújfalu |
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 Romania
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| Historical region : | Transylvania | ||||
| Circle : | Mureș | ||||
| Municipality : | Sângeorgiu de Pădure | ||||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 25 ' N , 24 ° 55' E | ||||
| Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | ||||
| Height : | 370 m | ||||
| Residents : | 39 (2002) | ||||
| Postal code : | 547537 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+40) 02 65 | ||||
| License plate : | MS | ||||
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| Community type : | Village | ||||
Bezidu Nou ( Hungarian Bözödújfalu , German Neudorf ) is a largely destroyed village in Romania in the Mureș district . In Hungary it was a symbol of the destruction of villages in the Ceaușescu era ; In 1988 it was flooded when the new dam was being built.
location
The village is located 5 km from the Sângeorgiu de Pădure community center on the banks of the Cuşmed stream. The village was founded by emigrants from Bözöd (today Bezid ) in the valley of the Cuşmed brook; the first documentary mention is dated to 1566. It already had a church in the Middle Ages. In place of the older church, a new wooden church was built in 1740, which gave way to a stone church in 1784. This building is now a Catholic church, but is under water together with the Church of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania .
history
The village was a regional center of the Transylvanian Sabbatarians from the 17th century . The last of them lived here until most of them converted to the Jewish faith in 1868. The last survivors perished in the National Socialist concentration camps. In 1910 the village still had 679 inhabitants, most of them of Hungarian origin. An Orthodox church was built in 1939, but it was demolished in 1990.
Construction of the Bezid reservoir began in 1988, but the construction of the dam began in 1975. Completion of the dam was delayed, however, as work was interrupted in 1977 and only resumed in 1984. The dam is 625 m long and 28 m high.
In 1985 Romanian security forces began to evacuate the village. In 1992 there were still 126 inhabitants, including 99 Hungarians , 23 Roma and 4 Romanians . In 1994 the village and the church were under water and the remaining inhabitants moved away. In the end, 12 residential buildings were not flooded; a total of around 40 people live in them.
The peculiarity of the village was that four traditional religions shared one place ( Catholicism , Unitarianism , Orthodoxy and Sabbatianism ). In 1995, the former residents had a memorial plaque erected, on which the names of the residents and the symbols of all four religions represented in the village can be found.
The original text in Hungarian is:
" A tó fenekén Bözödújfalu nyugszik, 180 házának volt lakói szétszórva a nagyvilágban ma is siratják A Diktatura Gonosz végrehajtói lerombolták, és elárasztották, Ezzel egy egyedülálló történelmi-vallási közösséget szüntettek meg, melyben különböző nemzetiségű és felekezetű családok Eltek. át évszázadokon együtt, egymást tisztelve it szeretve, példás békességben. Immar a katolikus, unitárius, görögkatolikus és a székely szombatosok fohászai örökre elnémultak. Legyen e hely a vallásbéke helye és szimbóluma. "
In German translation:
“Bözödújfalu rests at the bottom of the lake, the residents of the 180 houses weep for it all over the world. A dictatorship destroyed it, it was flooded and with it a unique, historically grown religious community in which families of different religions lived together for centuries in respect, charity and exemplary peace. Now the prayers of Catholics, Unitarians, Orthodox and the Transylvanian Sabbatians are forever silent. Become this place a symbol of remembrance of the religious peace. "
literature
- Ferenc Léstyán: Megszentelt kövek. A középkori erdélyi püspökség templomai. Volume 1: Stílusok, zord idők, hitvallások (katolikus, lutheránus, református, unitárius) változásaiban. 593 temple cape. 2nd, expanded edition. Római Katolikus Érsekség, Gyulafehérvár 2000, ISBN 973-9203-56-6 , pp. 291-292.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2002 census, accessed on May 1, 2009 (PDF; 1.2 MB)