Velţ

Velt ( German Wölz, såksesch Welz, Hungarian Velc, Völc ) is a village in Transylvania, in Sibiu county (Hermannstadt), Romania. It belongs to the municipality Bazna ( Bazna ).

Location

The place is located in a south-facing side of the Târnava Mica ( Small Kokel ) in Zwischenkokelgebiet, about 4.5 kilometers north of Bazna ( Bazna ) and 10 km as the crow northwest of Medias away.

History

Wölz was originally founded around 1300 by German settlers ( Saxons ) to Adelboden, then won but along with Bazna and the neighboring towns of Media shear chair the Sibiu law and became a free commune of crown land. Its name is attributed to the Hungarian word for valley, völgy. A former German name of the village was Thalheim.

The first written record dates from 1359, when the Assembly of the Media shear chair dealt with a Hattertstreit between Wölz and Bazna. The contentious forest was finally awarded Bazna, but for centuries was a bone of contention between the two towns.

• At the turn of the 14th and 15th century, the late Gothic hall church was built.
• Around 1460, the church is transformed into a fortified church by the choir increased by two military bullets and around the church with a wall is built.
• 1880, the church was damaged in an earthquake. The original vault of the choir and nave to be replaced.
• 2003 crashes the chorus with the overlying military bullets.

Population

Wölz was one of the smaller, very rural villages of the Media shear chair. During the early 20th century were still alive at the 40 % Transylvanian Saxons in Wölz, their numbers declined steadily thereafter and from 1990 through emigration massively. Today, the site of Romanians, Roma and just a few Hungary is inhabited.

Attractions

• The fortified church with the ruin of the Protestant Church