Săcălaz
Săcălaz ( Sackelhausen German, Hungarian Szakálháza ) is a municipality in Banat, Romania. It is located about ten kilometers west of Timişoara. The municipality includes the villages Săcălaz Beregsau Mare and Beregsau Mic.
Neighboring towns
History
The 1392 first mentioned place was inhabited until 1767 by Romanians. From 1765 the Schwaben trains were mainly located in the Banat, southwest German emigrants in the frame. Some village streets - Lietzenburger alley, the alley of Lorraine, the Mainzer Gasse and the Black Forest Lane - refer to the origin of the settlers, almost all diseases and epidemics ( plague, cholera, typhoid ) fell in the first generation to the victim. Beginning of the 19th century there was prosperity in Sackelhausen. Nevertheless, there was an emigration to North America.
By 1940, reached the existing almost exclusively of Banat Swabians Catholic community with over 4000 inhabitants their demographic peak. The Second World War, the inclusion of the Germans in the Wehrmacht, flight, expulsion, deportation to Russia and the Bărăgan and the expropriation of agricultural property, the basis of the existence of the predominantly rural population, have taken the final exodus of almost 1981-1985 led to the end of the German occupation.
Many of the former residents Sackelhausens (more than 1000) now live in Reutlingen / Metzingen, others in other parts of Western Europe.
Economy
The largest employer in Sackelhausen is the Honold Logistik Group, which operates there, together with the company Dietrich a logistics park. The logistics park was expanded in 2013 for the company Heraeus Dental, subsidiary of the Japanese Mitsui. Heraeus is expected to employ more than 100 people in the area HighTechologie and pharmacy. The park has clean room technology, emergency generators and their own power and water supply.
Personalities
- Joseph Linster (1889-1954), composer and music educator
- Henry Lauer (1934-2010), writer and journalist
- Karl Fritz Lauer ( born 1938 ), agronomist of Plant Pathology and Weed Science
- Gerhard Ortinau (* 1953), writer
- Carl Gibson ( born 1959 ), nonfiction author