Dacia, Brașov

Dacia, Romanian, formerly Stena ( German Stein, Hungarian Garat ) is a village in Transylvania ( Romania). It belongs administratively to the municipality Jibert ( Seiburg ).

Location

Dacia is located 7 km from Rupea ( German: Reps ) on the connecting road towards Fagaras.

History

The place is a settlement founded in the 12th century by German immigrants, the Saxons, which was first mentioned in 1309.

From the year 1488 a Saxon school is demonstrated. The village had around 1500 about 270 inhabitants, since in a statement this time 60 landlords are recorded.

Modern History

In 1910, the city had 1244 inhabitants, the majority of which were Saxons. In 1940 there were 712 Transylvanian Saxon inhabitants, in 2002 there were only four. In 2009, 13 " souls " in the evangelical church community were registered.

In 1931 the Romanian name of the village was changed. From Stena Dacia.

Attractions

• Fortified church (from the mid-13th century, construction and conversion 19th century)

The present church is based on a three-nave Romanesque pillar basilica originally the second half of the 13th century. The choir with square pillars between the ships was walled up in the course of rebuilding the beginning of the 16th century. The church was at that time a military level, the aisles were removed, the arch in the nave arcades were filled out, the apse was sacrificed to the reconstruction and the choir closed on three sides. The former wooden ceiling gave way and the church got a lunette vaults with the year of reconstruction 1517. The church has a Gothic choir (3/6 degree). The neo-classical columns altar was erected in 1815 by the sculptor Michael Wolf Sighisoara, the organ was installed by the Kronstadt organ builder Andreas Eitel in the same year. When the church got its first tower is not known, only that this date had to be rebuilt three times; 1738, 1763 and today in 1845. Earthquake were each the cause of the collapse. The last reconstruction also the weir floor were demolished over the hall, the defense arc removed and the church towards the west increased.

The church is surrounded by a seven to eight-meter high wall at the corners to military and stock storms are (the picture is not visible ). This courtyard was built in the course of the renovation to the fortified church. It is 64 m long and 55 m wide. From the towers are preserved three, the fourth most in the early 20th century a new school building. Worth mentioning is the bastion obtained is in the middle of the northern wall, it shows traces of machicolated, a Schwesterbau was probably located on the south side and more also the school. At the towers and on the walls you can see the remains of loopholes, this oak frame can only be opened from the inside. The corresponding battlements, towers and walls which probably ran around inside is not obtained. The armament as a fortified church farm is a Steiner document from the year 1750: " 6 double hoes ( hoes long ), two metal mortar, a metal piece or Feldschlange, 4 Radbüchsen. As well as stones, missiles, bows and arrows, boiling pitch and water as well as all the hew useful devices of the farm. "

Maybe was preserved defensive wall between church and a second defensive wall such as in Archita.