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Today, relatively few still live in Romania, where the second last official census (carried out in 2011) indicated 36,042 Germans, out of which only 11,400 were of Transylvanian Saxon descent. [16] As per the latest Romanian census conducted in 2022, they are even fewer, as other sub-groups of the entire German community in Romania as well.
The settlement of the Transylvanian Saxons in Transylvania) by archaeologist and professor doctor Thomas Nägler [54] [55] Povești din folclorul germanilor din România by Roland Schenn, Corint publishing house, 2014 (in Romanian) Meschendorf by Jessica Klein (in English and German)
Illustration from 'Die Gartenlaube' (1884) depicting a group of Transylvanian Saxons during the Middle Ages. The Transylvanian Saxons, a group of the German diaspora which started to settle in Transylvania, present-day Romania, since the high medieval Ostsiedlung, have a regional culture which can be regarded as being both part of the broader German culture as well as the Romanian culture.
The Soterius von Sachsenheim is a Transylvanian Saxon noble family originating from the village Stein (present-day Dacia), in the former Saxon Repser Stuhl administrative division. [1] Among its members were politicians and bureaucrats in the Transylvanian state administration and also army officers, scholars, pastors and artists.
The first documentary testimony about the village dates from 1283 in a document about the taxes paid by the inhabitants of 7 villages and so it is believed to have been founded sometime between 1224 and 1283 by Transylvanian Saxons. The village settlement quickly developed into an important market town and by 1510 Biertan supported a population ...
A small, compact community of Transylvanian Saxons (German: Siebenbürger Sachsen) previously lived in the town of Suceava during the Middle Ages.. Ethnic Germans known as Transylvanian Saxons (who were mainly craftsmen and merchants stemming from present-day Luxembourg and Rhine-Moselle river area of Western Europe), had sparsely settled in the western mountainous regions of the Principality ...
STORY: King Charles owns this 18th century cottage in Transylvania {arrow}Location: Viscri, RomaniaThe British monarch is distantly related to Romania's former King MichaelCharles first visited ...
The settlers' descendants, who were known as Transylvanian Saxons from the early 13th century, received collective privileges in 1224. Because of the settlement of the Saxons in their former territories, the Székelys were moved to the easternmost zones of the kingdom.