Transylvanian song
The Transylvanian song is the national anthem of the Transylvanian Saxons .
Emergence
The text comes from the writer and linguist Maximilian Leopold Moltke (1819-1894) and was originally a poem with the title "Transylvania, Land of Blessings". The poem only became a song when it was set to music (around 1848) by Johann Lukas Hedwig (born August 5, 1802 in Heldsdorf near Kronstadt (Transylvania); † January 8, 1849 to typhus on the retreat from the battle of Honigberg ) . It is a hymn of praise for the landscapes, people and history of Transylvania.
Hedwig did not originally write the melody for Moltke's poem, but for a celebratory song for the 300th anniversary of the Kronstadt department store built by Apollonia Hirscher in 1545 on October 28, 1845. The original with Hedwig's handwriting is now in the archives of the parish in Hero village . However, the Transylvanian Song is not sung as Hedwig prescribed. Also, only the first, second and seventh verses are sung because it would take too long to sing the whole song. The last two words of the song are often misunderstood: the Eintracht Band. Moltke addressed this call for fraternization in 1846 to all the peoples of Transylvania. The Hungarians and Romanians have never made the song their own, however, and so the Transylvanian Saxons often only mean the unity among themselves when singing. The last verse and all of your sons are also often twisted . Here it is mostly sung and about all sons of Saxony , which the other peoples of Transylvania consciously exclude.
song lyrics
- 1st verse
- Transylvania, land of blessings
- Land of abundance and strength,
- with the belt of the Carpathian Mountains
- around the green dress of the seeds
- Land of gold and grape juice.
- 2nd stanza
- Transylvania, seabed
- a flood that has long since passed;
- now a sea of ears of corn,
- whose banks are surrounded by woods,
- rests on the breast of heaven!
- 3rd stanza
- Transylvania, land of ruins
- a time ago, strong and great,
- their millennial traces
- still rest in your hallways
- unweakened field!
- 4th stanza
- Transylvania, green cradle
- a multicolored crowd!
- With the climate of all zones,
- with the wreath of nations
- to the altar of the fatherland!
- 5th stanza
- Transylvania, green temple
- with the high choir of the mountains,
- where devotions pay homage
- rise in so many tongues
- up to the one God!
- 6th stanza
- Transylvania, the land of tolerance
- every faith safe haven,
- may you go to distant days
- stand out as a haven of freedom
- and as a defense against free speech!
- 7th stanza
- Transylvania, sweet home
- our dear fatherland!
- Greetings in your beauty
- and about all your sons
- loop the unity ribbon!
literature
- Karl-Heinz Brenndörfer: Transylvania song translated into Romanian. Siebenbürgische Zeitung Online, May 15, 2002 - Landsmannschaft der Siebenbürger Sachsen in Deutschland eV
