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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.
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.
The Association of Transylvanian Saxons in Germany (German: Verband der Siebenbürger Sachsen in Deutschland) is a German organization formed in 1946 by Transylvanian Saxons (German: Siebenbürger Sachsen) who were resettled in Germany from Transylvania (German: Siebenbürgen).
The interior of a Transylvanian Saxon household, as depicted by German painter Albert Reich (1916 or 1917).. The traditional cuisine of the Transylvanian Saxons had evolved in Transylvania, contemporary Romania, through many centuries, being in contact with the Romanian cuisine but also with the Hungarian cuisine (with influences stemming mostly from the neighbouring Székelys).
The term "Anglo-Saxon", combining the names of the Angles and the Saxons, also came into use by the eighth century, initially in the work of Paul the Deacon, to distinguish the Germanic-speaking inhabitants of Britain from continental Saxons. However, both the Saxons of Britain and those of Old Saxony in northern Germany long continued to be ...
Samuel von Brukenthal, former Habsburg governor of Transylvania; Stephan Ludwig Roth, intellectual, Lutheran pastor, revolutionary; Michael Weiß, former mayor of Mediaș/Mediasch; Johannes Benkner, former mayor of Brașov/Kronstadt; Christian Tell, former mayor of Bucharest; Michael Trein, former mayor of Prejmer (German: Tartlau)
Slowly but steadily, the Saxon colonists managed to build solid and prosperous communities in the Carpathian Basin, more specifically in south-eastern, southern, and north-eastern Transylvania. These Transylvanian Saxons are very tied with their initial origin which stems from Western Europe, more specifically from Luxembourg and the Rhine ...