Stejărișu
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Stejărișu Probstdorf Prépostfalva |
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 Romania
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| Historical region : | Transylvania | ||||
| Circle : | Sibiu | ||||
| Municipality : | Iacobeni | ||||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 2 ' N , 24 ° 41' E | ||||
| Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | ||||
| Height : | 481 m | ||||
| Residents : | 478 (2002) | ||||
| Postal code : | 557109 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+40) 02 69 | ||||
| License plate : | SB | ||||
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| Community type : | Village | ||||
Stejărișu (formerly Proștea , German Probstdorf , Hungarian Prépostfalva ) is a village in Sibiu County ( Romania ). It belongs to the municipality of Iacobeni .
Surname
The German name goes back to the fact that the place originally belonged to the provost in Sibiu . Both the Hungarian form Prépostfalva and the earlier Romanian name Proştea were derived from this. The latter expression is reminiscent of Prost (for example "stupid") in Romanian and was therefore changed to Stejărișu (for example "oak forest") after the Second World War .
location
Stejărișu is located roughly in the middle of Transylvania in a northern side valley of the Hârtibaciu ( Harbach ). The nearest town is Agnita (about 10 km southwest).
history
The place was first mentioned in 1223 as terra Borothnik . This name is of Slavic origin and is said to be derived from a ford leading through the Harbach. Presumably the place used to be further down the valley, ie directly on the Harbach. It may have had to be relocated due to flooding.
As already mentioned, the village was initially owned by the church, but later became a free place on Königsboden . Probstdorf was shaped by the Transylvanian Saxons for many centuries . Today mostly Romanians and Roma live in Stejărișu.
Since 2006, Stejărișu has been the subject of a project supervised by the Austrian embassy, in which volunteers from Romania and Western European countries work with villagers in and around the village and train local people.
population
In 1850, 339 of the 801 residents were Germans. Their number decreased slowly after the Second World War, after the revolution of 1989 , when they emigrated to Germany . In 2002 there were still 478 people living in Stejărișu, of whom 23 described themselves as German, 442 as Romanians and 13 as Roma . According to estimates by the “Siebenbürgische Zeitung”, however, 85% of the residents are Roma.
traffic
The place is on a paved road that branches off the road between Sibiu and Sighișoara , which is about 2 km away in Harbachtal . Public transport does not touch the place directly (as of 2005). In the Harbach valley there is a bus stop near Stejărișu, which enables connections to Agnita, Sighișoara and Sibiu.
Attractions
Center of the town is the 14th-century hall church in the 15th century by towers and walls of fortified church was completed.
Personalities
- Josef Franz Capesius (1853–1918), philosopher and educator
literature
- Arne Franke: The defensive Sachsenland. Fortified churches in southern Transylvania. With a historical introduction by Harald Roth. German Cultural Forum Eastern Europe, Potsdam 2007, ISBN 978-3-936168-27-3 , online .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b sevenbürger.de
- ↑ a b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
- ↑ Handicrafts. ( 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. In: Hermannstädter Zeitung , August 14, 2009, accessed on August 13, 2009.
- ^ Censuses in Transylvania 1850-2002 (Hungarian) .
- ↑ Interview with Dr. Barbara Schöfnagel : New life in Probstdorf. In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung , April 4, 2009, accessed on July 22, 2013.
