Cimitirul Bisericii din Groapă din Sibiu
The Graveyard of the Church „Annunciation” (Biserica din Groapă) from Sibiu

Summary/Abstract: Current study was seen as a necesary insight into the history of the Romanian community in Sibiu, in the modern period, from the Church Annunciation cemetery. The community has built the mentioned existence starting from a different origin, the Aromanian, who prefered to be able to integrate into economic use to make more use of the Greek language. The other study leave to rebuild a whole history of the community, from the funeral announcements pages from „Telegraful Român”, the official publication of the Diocese and the Orthodox Metropolitan of Sibiu, from 1866 to 1918. Cemetery, as such, with was kept in inventory, gives us an interesting picture of Sibiu and the Romanian nation becoming in a period of modernization and positive development. We tried an analysis and assesment of funeral monuments, starting with the founders and ending with the year 1918. A conclusion was imposed from the beginning, we deal, not only with the presentation of a nation, but with a nation in motion. Togher, funerary monuments and funeral announcements came to complete the picture of a ownes, formally from the beginning, the German space of this city. Thus, we are able to reconstruct a particular company, consisting of: religious leaders, bischops and metropolitans, clerical dynasties, theachers and especially from the Romanian School of Theology, political leaders, bank executives, traders, writers, families united in death as they were in life, students whose hopes had died too soon. There as so random that the mentioned cemetery in Sibiu was considered a true national pantheon for the Romanians in Transylvanian space, leading to Braşov, with his similar Orthodox cemeteries.

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