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The town was founded after the Burzenland was awarded to the Teutonic Knights. Heldsdorf was first mentioned as a free municipality of the former Burzenländer district in a royal privilege from 1377. A year later, a land dispute is recorded in the documents, which resulted in a comparison with the neighboring municipality of Marienburg .

During the great Turkish invasion (1421) the village was heavily devastated, so that King Sigismund waived his taxes for one year and then for ten years.

The mayor Venceslaus from Heldsdorf is a witness in a deed (1471) of the lordship of Kronstadt over Neudorf.

The tax collection from 1510 recorded in Heldsdorf: 100 landlords, four widows, four poor people, five shepherds, one miller, clerk, schoolmaster and bell ringer as well as a church house and four desolate houses.

In a joint effort, the Heldsdorfer and the residents of Wolkendorf , Zeiden and Marienburg dug the Neugraben in 1517, which connects the Burzen with the Homorod .

Evangelical Church, 1966. Formerly a fortified church until the demolition of the fortifications in 1895.

Further Turkish incursions took place in 1432 and 1438 and moved the residents to build their fortified church.

In contrast to the mostly circular ring walls of the fortified churches in Burzenland, a rectangular, double wall belt with defensive towers at the corners, surrounded by a moat, was created here. The entire defense system was demolished at the end of the 19th century to rebuild the school and the town hall.

The Heldsdorf residents were not spared from the warlike events of the 16th and 17th. In 1599 the fortified church fell into the hands of the troops of Michael the Brave , Prince of Wallachia. In 1658 it was Turks and Tatars who also stole all of the village's cattle in 1683. In 1705 imperial soldiers and in 1708 the Kurucs looted the place.

In the years 1718 to 1719 567 Heldsdorf died of the plague - 133 Romanian residents and 19 non-residents.

On January 14, 1945, a total of 306 residents of Heldsdorf were deported to the Soviet Union . 47 people did not survive the deportation.

In 2009 there were still 126 members of the Protestant community (Transylvanian Saxony).

literature

Martin Rill: The Burzenland. Cities, villages, fortified churches. Edition Wort und Welt, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-932413-03-2 .

Web links

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

swell

↑ 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
↑ Dieter Drotleff: Pastors, curators, numbers of souls. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung. Enclosure: Karpatenrundschau , March 4, 2010, p. 3.

[1] 2011 census in Romania ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)

[2] Dieter Drotleff: Pastors, curators, numbers of souls. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung. Enclosure: Karpatenrundschau , March 4, 2010, p. 3.