Roadeș

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Rados

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Brașov

Municipality :

Buneşti

Coordinates :

46 ° 8 ' N , 25 ° 7' E Coordinates: 46 ° 7 '40 " N , 25 ° 6' 35" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

570 m

Residents :

287 (2002)

Postal code :

507038

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 68

License plate :

BV

Structure and administration

Community type :

Village

Roadeș ( German Radeln , Hungarian Rádos ) is a village in the Brașov County in Transylvania , Romania . It is part of the municipality of Buneşti ( Bodendorf ).

Geographical location

Cycling in the Josephine Land Survey from 1769 to 1773.

The place founded by German settlers is located in the east of the so-called Königsboden , the self-governing area of the Transylvanian Saxons that existed until 1867 near the Szeklerland . At the stream Valea Scroafei (German Saubach ) and the village road ( drum comunal ) DC 29, the place is four and a half kilometers northeast of the municipality.

history

Cattle fire signs from bicycles

Roadeș was first mentioned in a document in 1356. Cycling belonged to the Schäßburg chair , with the administrative seat in today's Sighișoara ( Schäßburg ), ecclesiastically to the Keisder Chapter. A Gothic hall church dedicated to both John can be dated to the 14th century. From 1504 it was expanded into a fortified church with an oval ring wall and five defensive towers as well as a bailey. After the church tower was destroyed by the Turks , its hull was walled in with a stone mantle and set up as a keep . A winged altar from the school of the sons of Veit Stoss , who worked in Schäßburg and had produced several winged altars for Transylvanian churches, was erected in the church around 1530 . In the altar shrine John the Baptist and John the Evangelist , probably the most important late Gothic sculptures in Transylvania, were displayed.

The altar panels were stolen from the altar in 1998 and brought to Hungary, where they were tracked down by Interpol except for one altar panel . After the restoration, it was placed in the St. John's Church in Sibiu .

The Peter Maffay Foundation has been active in Roadeș since 2009 and has set up a children's recreation center in the parish's former Protestant rectory. According to various statements, the renovation work on the fortified church, the rectory, the coach house and the bakery will cost around one and a half or three million euros. Other German foundations are trying to revitalize the place. The British Mihai-Eminescu-Trust foundation is also committed to the preservation of individual farmhouses and the historic townscape together with the local population.

On February 14, 2016 (around 4:40 p.m.), part of the church tower collapsed along a crack on the south wall.

population

Around 1500 there are 58 landlords (house owners), a schoolmaster and three shepherds. At the beginning of the 17th century, the community received growth from the neighboring Zoltendorf ( Mihai Viteazu ), which was abandoned after the war and the plague.

census		Ethnic composition
year	population	Romanians	Hungary	German	other
1850	722	158	1	479	84
1920	747	257	2	488	-
1941	748	135	9	505	99
1977	454	74	4th	296	80
1992	269	120	32	40	77

The Transylvanian-Saxon residents migrated to the nearby industrial centers in the course of the forced industrialization during the communist rule in Romania . From the 1970s and after 1989 in particular, almost all of them emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany . In 2002 the population consisted of 218 Romanians, 39 Transylvanian Saxons, 16 Magyars and 13 Roma .