War-losses, reconstruction and expropriation. On the histroy of the archive of the Honterus-congregation in Brasov from 1944 Cover Image
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Kriegsverluste, Wiederaufbau und Enteignung. Zur Archivgeschichte der Honterusgemeinde in Kronstadt ab 1944
War-losses, reconstruction and expropriation. On the histroy of the archive of the Honterus-congregation in Brasov from 1944

Author(s): Thomas Şindilariu
Subject(s): History
Published by: Arbeitskreis für Siebenbürgische Landeskunde
Keywords: Transylvania; Kronstadt; archive; communism; Transylvanian saxons

Summary/Abstract: The archive of the evangelic Honterus-congregation in Brasov (Kronstadt) was up to the 1980s an important archive that obtained many private donations. The article presents an overview over the history of the archive after the 23rd of August 1944, when the effects of the Second World War, the establishment of a communist regime in Romania and connedcted with this the expropriation of materials from the archive led to a substantial damage of the archive. Expropriated documents were not yet returned to the archive.

  • Issue Year: 28/2005
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 40-56
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: German
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