An exhibition about the Transylvanian Saxons, including from the Sebes area, will be held for a month at the Princely Palace of Transylvania in Alba Iulia, according to a press release sent to AGERPRES on Monday.
"From April 2 to May 4, 2025, the Princely Palace of Transylvania in Alba Iulia will host the temporary exhibition "Andreanum 800 years - law and constitution of the Transylvanian Saxons" + "100 Local Echoes", which presents the history, culture and identity of the German-speaking community in Transylvania," reads the release.
According to the organizers, the exhibition brings together two components.
The first one, "Andreanum 800", a traveling exhibition organized by the Department for Inter-Ethnic Relations of the Romanian Government and the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe, which deals with the impact of the 1224 Diploma Andreanum, or Der Goldener Freibrief der Siebenbürger Sachsen (English: Golden Charter of the Transylvanian Saxons) on the cultural, economic and legal development of the Transylvanian Saxons.
The second section, "100 Local Echoes", showcases documents, artifacts and historical memorabilia on the evolution of the Saxon communities in and around Sebes. On display will be medieval and pre-modern documents, modern copies, made locally, of medieval documentary texts, books from the library of the former evangelical gymnasium of Sebes, dating back to the 16th-20th centuries, portraits of Transylvanian princes, medieval and pre-modern coins, old papers, ceramics, folk costumes and period photographs.
The opening of the exhibition will take place in the presence of the Director of the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe, Harald Roth, and the historian Thomas Sindilariu, Undersecretary of State at the Department for Inter-Ethnic Relations.
The exhibition is organized by the Princely Palac Cultural Centre, in partnership with the Romanian Government - Department for Interethnic Relations, Deutsches Kulturforum östliches Europa/German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe, "Lucian Blaga" Cultural Centre and "Ioan Raica" Municipal Museum Sebes, National Archives of Romania - Alba County Service, National Museum of the Unirii, "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia, private collector Dr. Mihai-Octavian Groza.
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