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Valea Viilor

Coordinates: 46°04′59″N 24°16′37″E / 46.0831°N 24.2769°E / 46.0831; 24.2769
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Valea Viilor
Commune
Location in Sibiu County
Location in Sibiu County
Valea Viilor is located in Romania
Valea Viilor
Valea Viilor
Location in Romania
Coordinates: 46°04′59″N 24°16′37″E / 46.0831°N 24.2769°E / 46.0831; 24.2769
CountryRomania
CountySibiu
Population
 (2021-12-01)[1]
1,962
Time zoneEET/EEST (UTC+2/+3)
Vehicle reg.SB

Valea Viilor (colloquially Vorumloc; Template:Lang-de; Template:Lang-hu) is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 2,034 (as of 2002), and is composed of two villages, Motiș (Mortesdorf; Martontelke) and Valea Viilor. Each of these has a fortified church, Motiș fortified church and Valea Viilor fortified church. Both places were established and long inhabited by Transylvanian Saxons.

Motiș

Motiș village was previously known in Romanian as Motișdorf and Motișul. Alternate German names include Märtesdorf and Mertesdorf. In Latin records, it is called Villa Morteni.

It was first mentioned in 1319 as the property of Saxon counts Niklaus and Johann von Talmisch. In 1415 Mortesdorf was first called by its sole German name "Gemeinde Martin". Serfdom was abolished in 1848. Saxons made up the majority of the village population for centuries until the 1980s. The community emigrated en masse, chiefly to Germany; at that point, Romanians and Roma became dominant. By 2006, just one Transylvanian Saxon resided in the village.[2]

See also

  • Centre
    Centre
  • Valea Viilor fortified church
    Valea Viilor fortified church
  • View from the fortified church tower
    View from the fortified church tower
  • Street, with fortified church wall visible
    Street, with fortified church wall visible
  • Fortified church of Motiș
    Fortified church of Motiș

References

  1. ^ "Populaţia rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021" (XLS). National Institute of Statistics.
  2. ^ History of Mortesdorf on Siebenbürger.de places, accessed on March 9, 2010 https://www.siebenbuerger.de/ortschaften/mortesdorf/informationen/
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