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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).
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 Saxons were concerned about union with Hungary, fearing the loss of their traditional medieval origin privileges. When the Transylvanian Diet met on May 29, the vote for union was pushed through despite objections from many Saxon deputies. On June 10, the Emperor sanctioned the union vote of the Diet.
Transylvanian Saxon is the native German dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons, an ethnic German minority group from Transylvania in central Romania, and is also one of the three oldest ethnic German and German-speaking groups of the German diaspora in Central and Eastern Europe, along with the Baltic Germans and Zipser Germans.
The History of Transylvania and the Transylvanian Saxons by Dr. Konrad Gündisch, Oldenburg, Germany; Transylvania,Its Products and its People Archived 2018-05-05 at the Wayback Machine, by Charles Boner, 1865; Transylvanian Family History Database (in Hungarian)
This is a list of localities in Transylvania that were, either in majority or in minority, historically inhabited by Transylvanian Saxons, having either churches placed in refuge castles for the local population (German: Kirchenburg = fortress church or Wehrkirche = fortified church), or only village churches (German: Dorfkirchen) built by the Transylvanian Saxons.
Johannes Honter (Latin: Ioannes Honterus), theologian; Christian Schesaeus, poet, humanist, and Lutheran pastor; Johann Sommer (Latin: Ioannes Sommerus), theologian; Joseph Haltrich, author of fairytales/stories for children from the Transylvanian Saxon folklore
Commemorative plaque of Dutz Schuster at his memorial house in Mediaș (German: Mediasch), Transylvanian Saxon writer in the Transylvanian Saxon dialect.The literature of the Transylvanian Saxons, a group of the German diaspora since the Middle Ages (and of the Germans of Romania as well), [4] has evolved in Transylvania in their own dialect in the passing of time.