Pojorta

Pojorta
Posorta

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Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Brașov

Coordinates :

45 ° 45 ' N , 24 ° 52' E Coordinates: 45 ° 45 '0 " N , 24 ° 52' 13" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

515 m

Residents :

149 (2002)

Postal code :

507117

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 68

License plate :

BV

Structure and administration

Community type :

Village

Pojorta ( Hungarian : Posorta ) is a village in Transylvania in the Brașov district . It belongs to the municipality Lisa located 8 kilometers south of the river Olt ( Alt ) and the European route E68 and 18 km from the town of Făgăraş ( Fagaras ) away.

history

The village has had local importance several times in its past. In earlier times the land on which the village stands today belonged to the boyar family Pojorta. There is a legal dispute from 1630 in which the boyars Andreas von Pojorta and his father Aldea Negrea complained about residents of the village of Breaza , a few kilometers to the south , who had illegally settled on their land. This is likely to be the origin of today's village. The then princess of Transylvania, Katharina von Brandenburg , decided in favor of the complaining boyars, confirmed their title of property and placed the defendant peasants under them as serfs.

After the Habsburgs took power in Transylvania in 1687 , the majority of the population of Pojorta converted to the Greek Catholic Church united with Rome, despite resistance from the nearby Orthodox monastery Sâmbăta de Sus . In the 18th and 19th centuries the village was part of the Habsburg military border ; The 1st Wallachian Border Infantry Regiment ( Hungarian : Elsö Oláh Gyalogezred ) from Orlat was stationed in the neighboring village of Breaza .

During the First World War there was fighting between the Austro-Hungarian Army and the troops of the Kingdom of Romania in Pojorta . In November 1918, when the Habsburg Empire was already collapsing, the Romanian population of the village declared in a resolution their will to join Romania.

At the census carried out in Romania in 1927, Pojorta had 385 inhabitants, of which 60 were Orthodox and 325 Greek Catholics.

After the communists came to power, armed resistance against the regime broke out in the area in the early 1950s. In the Fagaras Mountains , partisans hid from the Securitate attack . Some of the rebels came from Pojorta, such as the brothers Gheorghe and Andrei Hașu. Since the inhabitants of the village partly secretly supported the partisans, the militia and secret police occupied and searched the village several times . Andrei Hașu, who had lived underground since 1947, was arrested in 1952 and executed the following year. His brother Gheorghe (Ghița) was only caught in 1957 and taken to the notorious Jilava prison near Bucharest. Nothing has been known about his fate since then; In 1964, however, the prison administration issued him a death certificate. The only survivor of the Fagaras partisan group was Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu , who published his experiences after the revolution of 1989 .

Between 1974 and 1975 Serafim Joantă was pastor in Pojorta, today's Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan for Germany, Central and Northern Europe.

photos

The Orthodox Church of Pojorta
Byzantine painting in the Orthodox Church
Village street
Gravestone of the partisans Andrei and Ghiţa Haşu

Individual evidence

Varga E. Árpád: Az Erdély etnikai és felekezeti statisztikája - Brassó (PDF; 525 kB), population figures , page 37 (Hungarian)

^ D. Prodan: Boyars and "vecini" of the country Fagarash in the 16th and 17th centuries , publishing house of the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, 1967

↑ Erich von Falkenhayn : The campaign of the 9th Army against the Romanians and Russians, 1916/17 , ES Mittler & sohn, 1921

↑ Ion Popescu-Puturi, Stefan Pascu: 1918 la Români: documentele Unirii: unirea transilvaniei cu România, 1 decembrie 1918, Volume 9 , Editura Științificâ și Enciclopedicâ, 1989, ISBN 9789732900611 (Romanian)

↑ Elise Wilk: Fugiti in munti - O batrana din satul Pojorta incearca sa afle adevarul ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (Romanian, translation of the title: Fled to the mountains - an old woman from the village of Pojorta tries to find out the truth)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mytex.ro

↑ Karl-Heinz Brenndörfer: bandits, spies or hero? Armed anti-communist resistance in Romania 1948-1962 - A book on contemporary history about the partisan movement in Romania , Stuttgart, 2005, ISBN 978-3-00-015903-9

[1] D. Prodan: Boyars and "vecini" of the country Fagarash in the 16th and 17th centuries , publishing house of the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, 1967

[2] Erich von Falkenhayn : The campaign of the 9th Army against the Romanians and Russians, 1916/17 , ES Mittler & sohn, 1921

[3] Ion Popescu-Puturi, Stefan Pascu: 1918 la Români: documentele Unirii: unirea transilvaniei cu România, 1 decembrie 1918, Volume 9 , Editura Științificâ și Enciclopedicâ, 1989, ISBN 9789732900611 (Romanian)