Hoghilag

Hoghilag Halvelagen Holdvilag
Basic data
State :	Romania
Historical region :	Transylvania
Circle :	Sibiu
Coordinates :	46 ° 14 '  N , 24 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 13 '44 "  N , 24 ° 36' 43"  E
Time zone :	EET ( UTC +2)
Height :	327  m
Area :	52.13  km²
Residents :	2,172 (October 20, 2011)
Population density :	42 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	557100
Telephone code :	(+40) 02 69
License plate :	SB
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type :	local community
Structure :	Hoghilag, Prod , Valchid
Mayor :	Nicolae Lazar ( PSD )
Postal address :	Str. Principală, no. 305 loc. Hoghilag, jud. Sibiu, RO-557100
Website :	primariahoghilag.ro

Hoghilag ( German  Halvelagen or Halwelagen , Hungarian Holdvilag ) is a municipality in the Sibiu district in Transylvania , Romania .

geography

Halvelagen extends along the north side of the valley of the Târnava Mare ( Great Kokel ). Directly neighboring villages are the small town Dumbrăveni ( Elisabethstadt ) in the west, the village Prod ( Pruden ) in the northeast, Laslea ( Lasseln ) in the southeast and Valchid ( forest huts ) in the south. Other neighboring larger localities are the city of Sighișoara ( Schäßburg ) located 20 kilometers to the east and the city of Mediaș ( Mediasch ) located 30 kilometers to the west .

history

Halvelagen was probably founded in the 14th century by the Transylvanian Saxons . The German name Halvelagen comes from the Hungarian name Holdvilag and probably means settlement of the moon . In the course of settlement, one of the fortified churches characteristic of Transylvania was also built in Halvelagen . The castle wall around the church and the steeple Halvelagens were demolished in the 17th century.

On one of the higher mountains around Halvelagen there was once a signal tower or a smaller castle (Pfaffenburg). In the 1970s, remains of sandstone steps and walls could still be found.

Around 1900, a large part of the Halvelagen emigrated to America. There they worked in steel mills and sausage factories around Chicago and Detroit, among other things . Halvelagen has had the status of a municipality since around 1900. Today around 1000 people live in Hoghilag. With the two cadastral communities of Prod and Valchid , there are more than 2000. In the years around 1960 there were around 500 Transylvanian Saxons, 250 Romanians and 250 Roma living in Halvelagen .

Younger past and present

After the fall of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu , almost all of Halvelagen's Saxons left their home community and moved to Germany.

The church organ was restored in Germany and then handed over to the Music Conservatory in Cluj-Napoca ( Klausenburg ). In the 1990s, the Halvelagner church administration sold one of the three tower bells of the Saxon church tower to a parish in the Hungarian-speaking Szekler region in the inner Carpathian arch.

In 2005 around 1,000 people lived in Halvelagen, including around 500 Romanians, around 500 Roma and 4 Saxons.

Attractions

• The Evangelical Church, built between 1828 and 1838, and the 36 meter high pointed tower next door, built in 1581 and renovated in 1796, are listed as historical monuments.

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  Evangelical Church and Spitzturm

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  Protestant church

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  Spire

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  town hall

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  primary school

• The fortified church in the incorporated village of Valchid is a listed building.

literature

• Anna Dengel, Ulrike Schinker (ed.): Halvelagen, where I was at home. Publishing house Transylvanian-Saxon Foundation, Munich 1998.

Web links

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

• Halvelagen at sevenbuerger.de
• Web presentation of the Halvelager hometown community
• Hoghilag at ghidulprimariilor.ro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census in Romania at citypopulation.de
2. ↑ ^{a b} List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010 (Romanian; PDF; 7.10 MB)