Dacia (Brașov)

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Dacia
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Dacia (Brașov) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Brașov
Municipality : Jibert
Coordinates : 46 ° 1 '  N , 25 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 0 '35 "  N , 25 ° 8' 59"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 473  m
Residents : 671 (2002)
Postal code : 507111
Telephone code : (+40) 02 68
License plate : BV
Structure and administration
Community type : Village
Website :
Town view in winter
Detail: Steiner Kirchenburg before 1904
Fortified church in Stein / Dacia

Dacia ( pronunciation ? / I ), formerly Ștena ( German stone , Hungarian Garát ), is a village in Transylvania ( Romania ). Administratively it belongs to the municipality of Jibert (Eng. Seiburg). Audio file / audio sample  

location

Dacia is 7 km away from Rupea (dt. Reps) on the connecting road to Făgăraş (dt. Fogarasch).

history

The place is a settlement founded in the 12th century by German emigrants, the Transylvanian Saxons , which was first mentioned in 1309.

A Saxon school has been recorded since 1488. Around the year 1500 the village had about 270 inhabitants, as 60 landlords are listed in a list of that time.

Recent history

In 1910 the place had 1244 inhabitants, the majority of whom were Transylvanian Saxons. In 1940 there were still 712 Transylvanian-Saxon residents, in 2002 there were only four. In 2009 there were 13 "souls" registered in the Protestant parish.

In 1931 the Romanian name of the village was changed. Ștena became Dacia.

Attractions

  • Fortified church (from the middle of the 13th century, new or remodeled 19th century)

The current church is based on an originally three-aisled Romanesque pillar basilica from the second half of the 13th century. The choir square with pillars between the naves was walled up in the course of renovations at the beginning of the 16th century. At that time the church was given a fortified floor, the side aisles were dismantled, the arcade arches in the central nave were filled in, the apse was sacrificed for renovation and the choir was closed on three sides. The former wooden ceiling also had to give way and the church was given a lancet barrel vault with the date of the renovation 1517. The church has a Gothic choir (3/6 end). The classicistic columnar altar was erected in 1815 by the Schäßburg sculptor Michael Wolf, the organ was installed in the same year by the Kronstadt organ builder Andreas Eitel. When the church got its first tower is not known, only that it had to be rebuilt three times so far; 1738, 1763 and the current one in 1845. Earthquakes were each the cause of the collapse. During the last reconstruction, the fortified floor above the hall was also removed, the defensive arches removed and the church enlarged towards the west.

The church is surrounded by a seven to eight meter high wall, at the corners of which there are defense and storage towers (not visible in the photo). This courtyard was built as part of the conversion to a fortified church. It is 64 m long and 55 m wide. Three of the defense towers are still preserved, the fourth gave way to a new school building at the beginning of the 20th century. It is worth mentioning the preserved bastion in the middle of the northern wall, it shows remains of machicolations, a sister building was probably on the south side and also gave way to the school. Remains of loopholes can be seen on the towers and also on the walls, these oak frames can only be opened from the inside. The associated battlement, which probably ran around towers and walls inside, has not been preserved. The armament of such a rural fortified church is documented by a Steiner document from 1750: “6 double hoes (long hoes), two metal mortars, a metal piece or field snake, 4 wheel sockets. As well as stones, projectiles, bows and arrows, boiling pitch and water as well as all farm equipment that can be used for chopping ”.

It is possible that there was a second defensive wall between the preserved defensive wall and the church, such as in Archita .

Cattle fire sign from Dacia / Stein

See also

Web links

Commons : Dacia  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ database geneanologienetz.de
  2. ^ Juliana Fabritius-Dancu: Castles in the Repser Land. In: Come with me. Travel, hiking, recreation in Romania. 1981, ZDB -ID 228577-0 , pp. 129-156, here p. 154.
  3. ↑ Árpád E. Varga: Brassó megye településeinek etnikai (anyanyelvi / nemzetiségi) adatai 1850-2002. (Online document) (PDF; 512 kB).
  4. ↑ Dieter Drotleff: Pastors, curators, numbers of souls. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung. Enclosure: Karpatenrundschau , March 4, 2010, p. 3.
  5. ^ Anna Janesch: History of the place. In: Stein in Siebenbürgen (= writings of the Transylvanian-Saxon Foundation. Vol. 10, ZDB -ID 1149349-5 ). Verlag Wort und Welt, Thaur near Innsbruck 1994, p. 21.
  6. ^ Arne Franke: The defensive Sachsenland. Fortified churches in southern Transylvania. With a historical introduction by Harald Roth. German Cultural Forum Eastern Europe, Potsdam 2007, ISBN 978-3-936168-27-3 , p. 144.
  7. ↑ a b map by Hermann Fabini 2005
  8. ^ Juliana Fabritius-Dancu: Castles in the Repser Land. In: Come with me. Travel, hiking, recreation in Romania. 1981, pp. 129–156, here p. 156.
  9. ↑ a b Juliana Fabritius-Dancu: Castles in the Repser Land. In: Come with me. Travel, hiking, recreation in Romania. 1981, pp. 129–156, here p. 155.