Hălchiu

Halchiu (German Heldsdorf, Transylvanian Saxon Hälzdref, Hungarian Höltövény ) is a municipality in the district of Brasov in Burzenland in Transylvania, Romania. It is located 16 km away from Brasov ( Kronstadt) away, 11 km from Coldea ( inside square brackets ) and 8 km from Feldioara ( Marienburg).

History

The local establishment took place after the award of the Burzenlandes to the German Teutonic Knights. Held village was first mentioned as a free community of former Burzenländer district in a royal privilege to 1377. A year later a hallway dispute is recorded in the documents that drew a comparison with the neighboring community of Marienburg to be.

During the Great Turkish invasion ( 1421 ), the village was devastated, so that he, King Sigismund initially adopted the tax for one year and thereafter for ten years.

In a certification ( 1471 ) the basic rule of Kronstadt on Neudorf is the mayor Venceslaus from Heldsdorf witness.

Tax collection from the year 1510 recorded in Heldsdorf: 100 landlords, four widows, four poor people, five shepherds, one each Müller, ushers, schoolmaster and Hunchback and a church house and four desert homes.

In a joint effort, the hero villages clubbed together with the inhabitants of clouds village, inside square brackets and Marienburg 1517 the Neugraben that connects the Burzen with the Homorod.

More Turkish incursions were made in 1432 or 1438 and led the inhabitants to build their fortified church.

In contrast to the usually circular ring walls of the fortified churches in Burzenland here was a rectangular, double perimeter wall with towers at the corners, surrounded by a moat. The entire fortification was demolished late 19th century to rebuild the school and town hall.

Of the events of war in the 16th and 17th, the hero villages were not spared. 1599 was the fortified church in the hands of the troops of Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia. In 1658 there were Turks and Tatars, 1683 also robbed the entire livestock of the village. 1705 looted imperial soldiers and 1708 kuruc the place.

In the years 1718-1719 567 succumbed to the plague Hero villages - of which 133 Romanian residents and 19 strangers.

On 14 January 1945, a total 306 residents Hero village were deported to the Soviet Union. 47 people did not survive the deportation.

In 2009 126 members of the Protestant community were still counted ( Transylvanian Saxons ).