… and Hand-embroidered in Romania
This is not a lady’s belt. These artfully embroidered belts ornate mens’ waists at Hermannstadt, Romania at least once a year when the Hermannstädter Sachsen celebrate their “national” day. © Hermannstädter Zeitung, Nr. 2500, 30.09.2016, Foto: Werner Fink The descendants of German settlers from the Middle Ages are a sizable minority in Romania’s Western province Transylvania. They are all bilingual German and Romanian and have their own newspaper, the Hermannstädter Zeitung . I am grateful to Beate Unger the editor in chief who told me a lot about the Sachsen on my visit to see my daughter who was working in Romania. Klaus Johannis, the Romanian president hails from their community. They have left Germany and Austria hundreds and hundreds years ago. As professed protestants they were exiled from their home countries like the Huguenots from France. Their fortified churches in Siebenbürgen, the Land of the Seven Towers, testify of the struggles they had to endure at their ...