Doștat (german: Thorstadt; hu, Hosszútelke) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 956 and is composed of three villages: Boz, Dealu Doștatului, and Doștat. The commune is situated in the southeastern part of the county, on the border with Sibiu County. By road, it is at a distance of from

Sebeș Sebeș (; German: ''Mühlbach''; Hungarian: ''Szászsebes''; Transylvanian Saxon dialect: ''Melnbach'') is a city in Alba County, central Romania, southern Transylvania. Geography The city lies in the Mureș River valley and straddles the rive ...

, from the county seat, Alba Iulia, and from Sibiu. Doștat borders

Roșia de Secaș Roșia de Secaș (german: Rothkirchen; hu, Székásveresegyháza) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 1,696 and is composed of three villages: Roșia de Secaș, Tău (''Székástóhát'') and Ungurei ...

commune to the north,

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commune to the west,

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commune to the north-east, Presaca village to the east, Ludoș commune to the southeast, and the town of

Miercurea Sibiului Miercurea Sibiului (german: Reußmarkt; hu, Szerdahely) is a town in the west of Sibiu County, in southern Transylvania, central Romania, to the west of the county capital, Sibiu. Administration Miercurea Sibiului was declared a town in 2004 and ...

to the south.

Villages

Boz

Boz (german: Bußd or ''Bussd'', hu, Buzd) is a village in the Doștat commune. The name means elder bush in

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. The first document that mentions the village is from 1290. In 1786 there were 571 inhabitants recorded, in 1936 there were 1,013 inhabitants, from which 342 Transylvanian Saxons. In 1992, after almost all ethnic Germans emigrated (mainly to Germany), there remained only 371 inhabitants. Boz is the birthplace of the Lutheran priest Mathias Schuster (1912–1997), who founded the village Rosenau in Seewalchen commune in Austria, as a refuge place for the German population (Saxons and

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) from Transylvania and other parts of

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who had to flee after World War II in order to escape the communist deportation to the Soviet Union and imprisonment. During the war, on their way to the Russian front, being enrolled in the German army (as Waffen SS), the men from Bussd wrote on the walls of the train in their home dialect: ''"Holt Dich, Stalin, un der Grunn, denn de Bussder kunn", "Tremble for your moustache, Stalin, 'couse the people from Bussd are coming!"'' . A meaningful joke about Bussd can be found in a German newspaper: In the train from Kronstadt to Vienna, a peasant from Bussd is sitting next to a merchant from Vienna, who was continuously rhapsodizing about his beautiful city. Because the peasant wasn't paying any attention, the merchant asked him: So tell me, you really haven't been in Vienna before? The peasant then answered drily: Well, have ''you'' ever been in Bussd?

Gallery

File:Aiud History Museum 2011 - Roman Dacia - Roman Inscription-1.JPG, Roman votive altar with inscription from

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( 101–250 AD), found at Doștat File:BozAB 3.JPG, The , built 1523 File:BozAB 12.JPG, The Unitarian Church of Boz File:BozAB 9.JPG, The

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of Boz File:Josephinische Landaufnahme pg187.jpg, Doștat on the Josephine Topographic Surveys of Transylvania, 1769-1773 File:Dostat grup vocal gaina.jpg, Local folklore group File:Mosu_mila_2007.jpg, Local costumes File:Butari mai vechi.jpg, Local folklore group

References

External links

Images of the village
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