Archaeological Researches Performed at Cenad (Timiş County) during the 19th Century and in the Beginning of the 20th Century
Archaeological Researches Performed at Cenad (Timiş County) during the 19th Century and in the Beginning of the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the pioneering archaeological researches performed at the medieval fortificationof Cenad (Timiş County) during the 19th century and in the beginning of the 20th century. Theseresearches were performed by two enthusiastic amateurs who wished to bring to light the ruins of themedieval fortification and its edifices: Friedrich/Frigyes Killer, a Roman Catholic parson and Gyula KisléghiNagy, administrator of the estate owned by princess Mileva San Marco. Two scholars of the 19th century,Flóris Rómer and Imre Henszlmann, also brought significant contributions to the research of the ruins inCenad; they were there in 1868, for the demolition of the Roman Catholic church built in the middle of the18th century.Killer and Kisléghi wrote reports and made drawings that they sent to Budapest to the National Commissionof Monuments. Kisléghi also kept a diary where he noted in detail the proceedings of the archaeological researches.These documents are kept in the Scientific Archive of the Forster Center in Budapest and the documentary fontof Banatului Museum in Timişoara and have mostly remained unpublished to date. Through the mentionedarchaeological researches, their initiators have discovered ruins of churches and of the fortification. The resultsare not very spectacular, but they provide precious data on the localization of some ecclesiastic edifices and somefortification walls, on planimetric characteristics and elevation, and on architectural fragments.

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