Velț

Velț
Wölz
Velc

Basic data

State :

Romania

Historical region :

Transylvania

Circle :

Sibiu

Municipality :

Bazna

Coordinates :

46 ° 14 ' N , 24 ° 17' E Coordinates: 46 ° 14 '20 " N , 24 ° 16' 46" E

Time zone :

EET ( UTC +2)

Height :

297 m

Residents :

627 (2002)

Postal code :

557032

Telephone code :

(+40) 02 69

License plate :

SB

Structure and administration

Community type :

Village

Wölz in the Josephinian survey of Transylvania from 1769 to 1773

Wölzer steeple and church (ruin)

Velț (German Wölz , Såksesch Welz , Hungarian Velc , Völc ) is a village in Transylvania in the district of Sibiu ( Hermannstadt ), Romania . It belongs to the municipality of Bazna ( Baaßen ).

location

The place is located in a southern side valley of the Târnava Mică ( Little Kokel ) in the Zwischenkokel area , about 4.5 km north of Bazna ( Baaßen ) and 10 km as the crow flies northwest of Mediasch .

history

Wölz was originally founded on Adelsboden by German settlers ( Transylvanian Saxons ) around the year 1300 , but then, together with Baaßen and the neighboring villages of the Mediascher Stuhl , gained the Sibiu law and thus became a free municipality of the Königsboden . The place name is derived from the Hungarian word for valley, völgy . A previous German name of the village was Thalheim .

The first documentary mention comes from the year 1359, when the meeting of the Mediascher Stuhl dealt with a Hattert dispute between Wölz and Baaßen. The disputed piece of forest was finally awarded to Baaßen, but was a bone of contention between the two villages for centuries.

The late Gothic hall church was built at the turn of the 14th to the 15th century.
Around 1460 the church was converted into a fortified church by adding two fortified storeys to the choir and building a curtain wall around the church.
In 1880 the church was damaged in an earthquake. The original vaults of the choir and nave will be replaced.
In 2003 the choir collapsed with the defensive floors above.

population

Wölz was one of the smaller, very rural villages in the Mediascher Stuhl. While around 40% of the Transylvanian Saxons lived in Wölz at the beginning of the 20th century, their number fell steadily after that and from 1990 onwards, it fell massively due to emigration. Today the place is inhabited by Romanians , Roma and a few Hungarians .

year	Residents	including Germans
1910	1175	470
1941	1332	468
1966	987	227
1977	931	162
1992	608	18th
2002	627	0

Attractions

The fortified church with the ruins of the Protestant church

Web links

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Walter Myß (Ed.): The Transylvanian Saxons. Dictionary. History, culture, civilization, science, economy, living space Transylvania (Transylvania). License issue. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2018-4 .

Individual evidence

^ Franz Zimmermann, Carl Werner: Document book on the history of the Germans in Transylvania. Volume 2: 1342-1390. Michaelis (on commission), Hermannstadt 1897.
↑ Reinhold Schullerus: Baaßen. History of a Saxon community in Transylvania (= series of publications of the Transylvanian-Saxon Foundation. Vol. 52). Transylvanian-Saxon Foundation, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-932043-30-8 .
↑ Árpád E. Varga: Szeben megye településeinek etnikai (anyanyelvi / nemzetiségi) adatai 1850-2002. (Online document) (PDF file; 582 kB).

[1] Franz Zimmermann, Carl Werner: Document book on the history of the Germans in Transylvania. Volume 2: 1342-1390. Michaelis (on commission), Hermannstadt 1897.

[2] Reinhold Schullerus: Baaßen. History of a Saxon community in Transylvania (= series of publications of the Transylvanian-Saxon Foundation. Vol. 52). Transylvanian-Saxon Foundation, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-932043-30-8 .

[3] Árpád E. Varga: Szeben megye településeinek etnikai (anyanyelvi / nemzetiségi) adatai 1850-2002. (Online document) (PDF file; 582 kB).