!!!Landler

Landler: 160 Protestant families (624 persons) were forcibly removed 
from the Salzkammergut area in 7 transports to Transylvania from July 
1734 until November 1737 where farms were allocated, mainly in 
Neppendorf and Grossau near Hermannstadt (Sibiu, Romania). Even though 
one quarter of the deported people died within the first 18 months, 
the Landler people managed to survive as a community and kept their 
dialect until the late 20%%sup th/%  century. Only in 1990 did the 
community of about 5,000 people start breaking up because the younger 
members moved to Germany and Austria.

!Literature
E. Buchinger, Die "Landler" in Siebenbuergen, 1980; R. 
Girtler, Verbannt und vergessen. Eine untergehende deutsch-sprachige 
Kultur in Rumaenien, 1992.


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