Laslea

Laslea (German: Grosslasseln; Hungarian: Szászszentlászló) is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Florești, Laslea, Mălâncrav, Nou Săsesc and Roandola.

For the river in Sibiu County, see Laslea (river).
Laslea
Commune
Apafi manor in Mălâncrav
Location in Sibiu County
Laslea
Location in Romania
Coordinates: 46°13′N 24°39′E
CountryRomania
CountySibiu
Population
 (2011)[1]
3,327
Time zoneEET/EEST (UTC+2/+3)
Vehicle reg.SB

At the 2011 census, 61% of inhabitants were Romanians, 30% Roma, 7.5% Germans and 1% Hungarians. At the 2002 census, 76.2% were Romanian Orthodox, 7.2% Pentecostal, 5.7% Evangelical Lutheran, 5.2% Seventh-day Adventist, 2.6% Evangelical Church of Augustan Confession and 1.2% Baptist.

The apse of the Mălâncrav church

Villages
In Romanian In German In Hungarian
Florești Felsendorf Földszin
Laslea Grosslasseln Szászszentlászló
Mălâncrav Malmkrog Almakerék
Nou Săsesc Neudorf Apaújfalu
Roandola Rauthal Rudály

Florești

In Romanian, Florești was known as Felța until 1950.[2]

Mălâncrav

Mălâncrav is a village in Laslea commune. An asphalt road of 13 km leads to the village. In the formerly majority Transylvanian Saxon village, there still is a small community of Saxons.

The Saxon Romanesque Lutheran church has early 14th-century Gothic murals in the apse, with 15th-century murals in the nave and a 15th-century late Gothic altar. They constitute some of the most significant Gothic murals in Transylvania aside from those at Ghelința in Covasna County. In later centuries the Apafi family (descending from a certain Saxon man named Apa;[3] later a leading Hungarian noble family in Transylvania) buried their dead in the church, since they had overlordship in the village. In 1902, the tomb chest of György Apafi, father of Mihaly Apafi, and his family was transferred to the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest.[4]

The locality was not part of the autonomous Saxon territory, although it had a majority Saxon population until the 1970s.

Prince of Wales and sustainable tourism

In 2006, the Prince of Wales bought and restored two 18th-century Saxon houses in the villages of Mălâncrav and Viscri to help protect the unique way of life that has existed for hundreds of years and promote sustainable tourism.

The buildings have been sensitively restored and converted into guesthouses for tourists. They remain in keeping with the surrounding architecture and feature a number of Transylvanian antiques but with modern facilities where possible.

The renovation of these buildings has helped provide a sustainable future for the people of rural Transylvania while also enabling residents to maintain their traditional way of life.

Cinema film

The film Malmkrog (2020) has been named after the village and was shot at the Apafi manor.

See also

References
  1. "Populaţia stabilă pe judeţe, municipii, oraşe şi localităti componenete la RPL_2011" (in Romanian). National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  2. Attila Szabó (ed.), Erdély, Bánság És Partium Történeti És Közigazgatási Helységnévtára. Miercurea Ciuc, 2003, Pro-Print Könyvkiadó, ISBN 973-8468-01-9
  3. Teutsch, Georg Daniel (1850). "Beiträge zur Geschichte Siebenbürgens unter König Ludwig I. 1342 - 1382" [Contributions to the History of Transylvania under King Louis I (1342-1382)]. Archiv für Kunde österreichischer Geschichts-Quellen (Archive for the Study of Austrian Historical Sources). 5. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, History Commission: 322-365 [see p. 362]. Retrieved 19 July 2021. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. Mérai, Dóra (2017). Memory from the Past, Display for the Future: Early Modern Funeral Monuments from the Transylvanian Principality (PDF) (Thesis). Budapest: Central European University. p. 73. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
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