Charlottenburg - Limited Edition 3 of 25 Photograph

This is one of my photos for the exhibition and the book about the Danube Swabian. "In 1772, during the second wave of German colonization, the governor of Banat, Count Karl Ignaz Clary-Aldringen, brings 32 families into Charlottenburg. The legend says that the village name was inspired by Charlotte, Count Aldringen’s wife. The colonists came from the Trento Province (the current Trentino region – Tyrol ), Lorena and Baden-Wurttemberg. After the year 1880, the village was populated by both Hungarian and Romanian families. The village plan was realized by the engineer Carl Samuel Neumann Edler von Bucholt, being a clerk at the State Office from Lipova and also the one who coordinated the entire construction process. In the beginning, in the middle of the village there was a mulberry tree plantation, the center being marked by a well. In time, most of the trees were cut off and a school, a church and a few courtyards were built in the middle of Charlottenburg. Initially, the surrounding surface was only 18 ha and was populated by 12 types of common deers, brought from Boemia. To these, deers from Germany and Austria were added, their number growing to 92 specimens. In 1904, the surface was already extended to 1194,9 ha and the administrative headquarters was in the Maşloc (Blumenthal) village. It was surrounded by a 18 km long fence, with the interior made out of barbed wire, placed on acacia poles which were located 4 meters apart from each other and dug 85 centimeters into the ground. After the First World War, all the properties of Count Wimpffen were taken by the Romanian state and the hunting ground became a Hunting Reservation for the Romanian Royal House. Between 1931 and 1948, the park became a component of the Green House Royal Forestry Administrative Unit – Timişoara. For now, it is still administered by the Timişoara Forestry Administrative Unit and the length of its surroundings is about 18,27 ha. The hunting grounds from Charlottenburg are the oldest from Romania and it has had an uninterrupted activity for almost 110 years (1904 – 2014). The Banat colonists left just like they came, over the course of three waves: the Swabians were the first to leave the Banat Grounds, right after the Second World War, the second wave left before the Revolution of 1989 and the third wave left right after 1990. Charlottenburg was not an exception. Therefore, in the round village, whose population was predominantly German, lives today just one Swabian: Peter Trimper". (Written by Alexandra Palconi).

Photography:C-type on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:32.9 W x 21.8 H x 0 D in

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