Șagu

Sagu ( German Segenthau, popularly tricorn, Hungarian Németság ) is a municipality in the district of Arad, Romania. The municipality includes the villages of Sagu Cruceni, Firiteaz, Fiscut and Hunedoara Timisana. Sagu is located south of the Maros, and is the historical region of Banat assign.

Location

Sagu is located in the south-west of Arad County, 14 kilometers from the district capital of Arad and 38 km from Timişoara. The municipality is crossed by European Route 671 and the national road DN 69 Timisoara - Arad.

Neighboring towns

Etymology

For the first time a settlement was in the 1332 papal Zehentregistern mentioned under the name Mezesag and Mezeusag. On the Müller- card ( Comitat Csanadiensis ) from the year 1709 the location is included as Schak and on the map of Count Claudius Mercy Flori mouth of 1723-25 ​​as Prädium Saag.

In the Kirchenmatrikeln is " Seegentau " (1771 /72), " Segentau " ( 1782 ), " Segenthau " (1784 ), " Seegenthau " (1829 ) and " Szegenthau " ( 1830) noted.

For the origin of the name " three-cornered hat ," as the place is popularly known, there are several drainage ways, including by the Huttracht the immigrants, who are said to have worn triangular hats, or the shape of the Hotter with three corners. Another tradition states that the name is due to the built in settling the inn, whose roof had three peaks.

The Hungarians called the place " Saag " and after the settlement with the German " Németság ". The Romanians always referred to the place Sagu. Since the 1920s, Sagu is the official name of the municipality.

History

The first lords of the place were 1489 Stefan Ethele, 1510 and 1561 Johann Peter Ravazdi Kassai. The settlement of Segenthau with the first German settlers falls in the period of the Teresian settlement period. Carl Samuel Neumann Edler von Buchholt moved 1770/71 to the first German colonists in Segenthau and had initially build 77 houses. The 75 German families, 320 people, mainly came from Alsace, Lorraine, Baden- Württemberg, Bavaria and Austria from the front. During the reign of Emperor Joseph II Segenthau was auctioned to the highest bidder. The new landowners were in 1781 the barons Stefan Atzel and Ignaz Vörös. For the villagers, this meant a return to the feudal system.

The landlords Atzel - Szapary left in Segenthau a castle surrounded by a park with old trees. The fort was 1918/19, occupied by Serb military units. In 1924, the building was torn down and reported the property as vacant house courses.

After connecting Banat to Romania due to the Treaty of Trianon decided by the government, " agrarian reform " (1922-1925) was performed. As a result, the estate of Count Stefan Szapári was expropriated and distributed two yoke of war orphans and invalids, as well as landless agricultural laborers.

Demographics

Economy

The main occupation of the inhabitants was agriculture. Agriculture was mainly focused on the cultivation of grain. The small farmers were partly tobacco planters. The link of the community to the railway Timisoara - Arad in 1871 had a positive impact on the economic development of the community and the professional opportunities of the inhabitants. So many Segenthauer learned a trade and found work in the near Neu- Arad Arad.

The Mill of Segenthau was built in 1912 and expanded in 1932 and was known beyond the borders of the community beyond. 1908 one of the first Raiffeisengenossenschaften of the Banat was founded in Segenthau. The association founded a bank, a milk room, and two goods stores. Through the land reform law of 1945, the agricultural estate was expropriated and confiscated all agricultural machines.

With the nationalization of private property arose in 1948, the first state farms (Romanian Întreprinderea Agricola de Stat, IAS). 1949/50, the Agricultural Production Cooperative " Scanteia Sagu " was founded. From 1948, the craft were nationalized, so that the majority of the residents had to work in factories in Arad and Timisoara.

Church

1771 Catholic parish was founded. The church is a simplified Baroque. The main altar is decorated with a picture of Mary, the side altars show the left and right of the Holy Wendelin is a Sacred Heart altar. Thanks to generous donations, the church was thoroughly renovated in 1929 and last in 1995.

School

At the time of settlement of the classes were taught by a teacher in German mother tongue in a farmhouse. After the church was built three buildings, worked for decades three teachers at the school.

The lessons were to Austro- Hungarian Compromise in German language, then until the end of World War I in Hungarian. The school remained until 1947 a denominational community school. With the seizure of power by the Communists nationalized the school during the school reform of 1948, drafted the entire assets and separated the teaching of the Church. Get remained the German primary school as a department of the Romanian elementary school. The pupils of the 5th - 7th grade, however, were incorporated into Romanian classes or the German school were able to visit in Engelsbrunn. In the school year 1965/66 a 5th class with German mother tongue is re-established. Thus, the foundation stone for the foundation of instruction for grades 1-8 was placed in the German language. In the years 1964-67 was an extension of the school. Due to declining numbers of students began the school year 1980/81 the gradual dissolution of the German second cycle. The primary school (grades 1-4) remained as a simultaneous lessons to 1991 exist.