Saxon Churches And Sieges
Emily Gerard
The words “church” and “fortress” used to be synonymous in Transylvania, so the places of worship might accurately have been described as churches militant.
(more…)Saxon Villages
Emily Gerard
Saxon villages are as easily distinguished from Roumanian ones, composed of wretched earthen hovels, as from Hungarian hamlets, which are marked by a sort of formal simplicity.
(more…)The Saxons: Character – Education – Religion
Emily Gerard
Whoever has lived among these Transylvanian Saxons, and has taken the trouble to study them, must have remarked that not only seven centuries’ residence in a strange land and in the midst of antagonistic races has made them lose none of their identity, but that they are, so to say, plus catholiques que le pape—that is, more thoroughly Teutonic than the Germans living to-day in the original father-land.
(more…)Saxon Historical Feast – Legend
Emily Gerard
As I happened to arrive at Hermanstadt precisely seven hundred years later than the German colonists who had founded that city, I had the good-luck to assist at a national festival of peculiarly interesting character.
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