#fogarasch

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Bedeutende Wabenflasche

Siebenbürgen, Freck/Porumbac, um 1700

Hellgrünes, in Wabenmodel geblasenes Glas mit Abriss, glattem Hals und angesetztem, ringförmigem Henkel.

H. 20 cm

Eine vergleichbare Flasche befindet sich im Museum Fogarasch.

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#Fagaras / #Fogarasch. #Transilvania #Transylvania #Siebenbürgen #Romania (la Festung Făgăraș Făgăraș Fortress; Cetatea Făgărașului)

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Făgăraș Synagogue and Cemetery

The Făgăraș (German Fogarasch, Hungarian Fogaras) community was one of the older Jewish communities in the region of southern Transylvania. In the past I have posted about documents related to Fagaras here. The synagogue, still standing but abandoned and in a state of advanced decay, is unusual due to its conspicuous steeple – a generally uncommon feature in synagogue architecture.

The cemetery is in relatively good condition, probably due in no small part to several sheep and goats which keep the grass low. Like the other communities in the area, the tombstone inscriptions are either in German or Hungarian (in addition to Hebrew) prior to World War II and, beginning in about the 1950s, sometimes in Romanian. I was a bit surprised to find that even the tombstone engraver from Sibiu left his name in German on one stone and Hungarian on another (see photos, J. Roubischek of Hermannstadt / Nagy Szeben). There was also a stone the like of which I have never encountered in any cemetery in Transylvania to date – with inscriptions on four sides in four different languages, Hebrew and the three languages of the regional inhabitants: German, Hungarian, and Romanian. The stone dates from 1889, a time when Romanians enjoyed few privileges and for the most part made up the peasant class, while the Hungarians and Germans belonged to the ruling class and the Jews were accordingly far more assimilated to the two latter cultures. The tombstone was made for Aron Speiser, who was born in Tarnopol in 1825 and died in Fagaras in 1889. He was a decorated captain in the Austro-Hungarian army and served as president for both the Chevra Kadisha (burial society) and the Jewish community of Fagaras.