Daia (Apold)

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Daia
Denndorf
Szászdálya
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Daia (Apold) (Romania)
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Basic data
State : RomaniaRomania Romania
Historical region : Transylvania
Circle : Mureș
Municipality : Apold
Coordinates : 46 ° 9 '  N , 24 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 8 '47 "  N , 24 ° 54' 7"  E
Time zone : EET ( UTC +2)
Height : 507  m
Residents : 557 (2002)
Postal code : 547041
Telephone code : (+40) 02 65
License plate : MS
Structure and administration
Community type : Village

Daia ( German  Denndorf , Hungarian Szászdálya ) is a village in Mureș County in Transylvania , Romania . It belongs to the municipality of Apold .

The place is also called Daia saseasca in Romanian , Dellendorf in German and Dändref in the Transylvanian-Saxon dialect .

Geographical location

Daia in the Josephine land survey from 1769 to 1773.
The town center and the church tower of Denndorf (2009)

Located in a hilly landscape, the village of Daia is eight kilometers east of the community center. The place is located 23 kilometers southeast of the city of Sighișoara (Schäßburg) by the Schaaser Bach , which flows in a north-westerly direction past Șaeș (Schaas) and flows into the Târnava Mare (Great Kokel) .

history

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1280 as Dala or Dalia and in 1733 as Dallza . During archaeological excavations, finds were made that point to the Neolithic Age . These objects are in the museums in Sibiu, Sighișoara and Sfântul Gheorghe . According to information from Georg Daniel Teutsch , archaeological finds of a settlement have been made on Salsen Lake , but have not yet been assigned to any epoch.

In 1345 men from Denndorf took part in an attack on the villages of Neudorf and Rauhtal . There was a dispute over the Lapus valley , with an ancient quarry of the surrounding Kokel communities. They robbed the resident Magyar aristocratic families and set fire to Neudorf, which burned down except for five courtyards, and the wooden St. Catherine's Chapel also fell victim to the fire.

185 Transylvanian Saxons and the village pastor Mathias Goldner fell victim to the plague in Daia in the 18th century .

population

The population of the village developed as follows:

census Ethnic composition
year population Romanians Hungary German other
1850 1,321 303 5 749 264
1920 1,070 536 17th 512 5
1966 1.003 517 3 482 1
1992 574 293 19th 19th 243
2002 557 410 2 2 143

Since 1850 the highest number of inhabitants in the area of ​​today's municipality was 1324 and at the same time that of the Romanian Germans (760) in 1880. The highest population of Romanians was registered in 1920, that of Roma (263) in 1850 and that of Magyars (28) in 1930. Furthermore, in 1966, a resident declared himself a Slovak .

Sightseeing

  • The Marienkirche was built as a hall church at the beginning of the 15th century, after about a century it was converted into a fortified church and surrounded by a defensive wall with five towers. The wide bell tower with a side length of 12.20 meters and 63 meters high (on which a clock was attached by Transylvanian Saxons in 1904) and the fortified church are under monument protection.

literature

  • Werner Wagner: Denndorf. A Saxon community in Transylvania. The small village with great memories. AGK-Verlag, Dinklage 1994, ISBN 3-928389-14-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. Look at Daia
  2. a b c Information on the website of the municipality of Apold ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on March 18, 2017 (Romanian). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.comunaapold.ro
  3. ^ Institute Of Archeology - Daia , accessed March 18, 2017 (Romanian).
  4. Census, last updated November 2, 2008 (Hungarian; PDF; 525 kB)
  5. Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
  6. List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (Romanian; PDF; 12.7 MB)

Web links

Commons : Daia  - collection of images, videos and audio files