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Eventually, although the German minority in Romania has dwindled in numbers to a considerable extent since the fall of the Iron Curtain, the few but well organised Romanian-Germans who decided to remain in the country after the 1989 revolution are respected and regarded by many of their fellow ethnic Romanian countrymen as a hard-working ...
Pages in category "Ethnic German groups in Romania" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Lived since the High Middle Ages onwards in Transylvania as well as in other parts of contemporary Romania. Additionally, the Transylvanian Saxons are the eldest ethnic German group in non-native majority German-inhabited Central-Eastern Europe, alongside the Zipsers in Slovakia and Romania (who began to settle in present-day Slovakia starting in the 13th century).
As of 2022, according to the Romanian Census, there were circa 22,900 ethnic Germans recorded in Romania. Since the High Middle Ages , the territory of present-day Romania has been continuously inhabited by German-speaking groups, firstly by Transylvanian Saxons then, gradually, by other immigrant groups of ethnic German origin.
Even before the union with Romania, ethnic Romanians comprised the overall majority in Transylvania. However, ethnic Hungarians and Germans were the dominant urban population until relatively recently, while Hungarians still constitute the majority in Harghita and Covasna counties. The Roma constitute one of Romania's largest minorities.
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.
Ethnic Germans from Romania resettled by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1944 [2] To Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany To General Government/Poland
This category refers to people of German ethnicity or ancestry who were or are citizens of Romania; it includes members of the Transylvanian Saxon communities and other established ones on the present-day territory of Romania only to the measure were these were also Romanian nationals.