Images of Romania

 Odorheiu Secuiesc and surroundings


The cattle market of Odorheiu Secuiesc.


Cattle transport, Romanian style.


View of the village of Ionesti/Janosfalva.

Villages of the German minority


The fortress-church of Homorod/Hamruden in winter.


The hauptstrasse of Drauseni/Draas.


Drauseni/Draas seen from the church tower.


Desintegrating German farmsteads in Beia/Meeburg.

Podeni village and surroundings


View of Podeni from the open-air toilet.


The fields of Podeni set against the peaks of the Apuseni Mountains


Eugen ploughs our garden with two buffaloes for this winter's potatoes.


The door of the former Collective Farm, repaired with a bilingual sign celebrating the 50th aniversary of the Romanian Communist Party.


Further up in the Apuseni Mountains, farmers toil with home-made ploughs and cows to work the few hectares of land they have.


The village of Rachis had 300 inhabitants in 1940. Now some 50 people are left, of who the youngest is nearly 40 years old.

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