|
1833 |
Founding of the village of
Alexanderhausen by contract between bishop Alexander of Agram and 140
families from the surrounding villages |
|
1836 |
Construction of the
double-spire baroque church - symbol of Alexanderhausen |
|
1842 |
Church registers must use
Hungarian language |
|
1848 |
Petition of complaints from
Alexanderhauseners to the Hungarian Interior Ministry |
|
1849 |
Ah complies with request to
supply another 50 recruits for the defense of Temeswar |
|
1849 |
Ah supplies bread and oats to
the Austrian Army on its way to liberate the besieged Temeswar |
|
1849 |
Ah signs the Billed/Bogarosch
Petition |
|
1852 |
A further 59 families join Ah
from the surrounding villages |
|
1859 |
Population of Ah is 1650
persons in 210 houses |
|
1868 |
"Ah buys all property rights
from the bishop of Agram for 262,960 Gulden" |
|
1869 |
Ah school is transferred from
the feudal administration to the community |
|
1873 |
Cholera kills ten persons |
|
1884 |
Ah connected to the railway
line Temeswar-Tschanad |
|
1890 |
Association for steam-engine
threshing is formed |
|
1890 |
Influenza epidemic; no
casualties |
|
1893 |
Ah obtains the right to hold a
weekly market |
|
1898 |
Socialist Association is formed |
|
1898 |
Association of agricultural
producers (Bauernverein) is formed |
|
1900 |
Population of Ah is 1929
persons |
|
1903 |
Reconstruction of the village
school building |
|
1911 |
Liberty monument erected in
Rondell by Freedom Party |
|
1912 |
Church transferred from the
diocese of Agram to the diocese of Tschanad |
|
1912 |
Some 80 families emigrate to
America |
|
1913 |
About 300 persons from
Alexanderhausen are now in America |
|
1918 |
WWI ends; 62 men from Ah lost
their lives in the war |
|
1920 |
Ah finds itself in the Romanian
part of the Banat |
|
1920 |
The community drills a 100 m
deep well in the Rondell |
|
1920 |
The community mandates a 1 m
wide paved sidewalk (1.5 m in main street and Rondell) |
|
1923 |
Many participants from Ah at
the 200th anniversary of German colonization in Temeswar |
|
1926 |
Ah school is transferred from
the community to the state |
|
1929 |
Voluntary fire brigade is
formed |
|
1930 |
Population of Ah is 1854 of
which 1722 are Germans ( 92.9%) |
|
1931 |
New church bells inaugurated;
sponsored by Ah villagers in the USA |
|
1933 |
100th anniversary &
inauguration of the Heroes Monument erected in a Rondell park setting |
|
1940 |
German military mission in
Romania; soldiers in Ah |
|
1941 |
"School is transferred to the
""German Ethnic Group in Romania""" |
|
1943 |
Hitler-Antonescu agreement
enrolls all men into either Romanian or German armed forces |
|
1944 |
23 September to 5 October: Ah
is battlefield; inhabitants evacuted to Bogarosch & other villages |
|
1944 |
October: a number of families
flee towards Germany; some are subsequently returned by Soviets |
|
1944 |
Closing of German school;
Romanian refugees arrive in Ah |
|
1945 |
Deportation of men (17 to 45
years old) and women (18 to 30 years old) to the USSR |
|
1945 |
WWII ends; 217 villagers lost
their lives (163 in the German Armed Forces; 37 in the Romanian Armed
Forces; 17 civilians during the battle in Ah) |
|
1945 |
Romanian colonists occupy
houses of Germans; expropriation of all German property |
|
1946 |
German language instruction
reintroduced to village school; establishment of a state farm |
|
1949 |
Return of survivors from USSR;
34 dead from 174 deported (19.8% casualties) |
|
1950 |
Ah state farm incorporated into
the larger Warjasch state farm |
|
1951 |
Deportation to the Baragan: 48
persons deported; five died in the Baragan; last USSR POW returns |
|
1952 |
Collective farm is established
with 1/5 of arable land |
|
1954 |
Electric power for homes and
street lighting produced by Burian/Graf mill |
|
1955 |
Return of first deportees from
the Baragan; restitution of their houses |
|
1956 |
Property rights for their
houses returned to original German owners; need for renovation |
|
1957 |
Collectivisation completed: all
villagers are now members of the collective farm |
|
1968 |
Oil is discovered in the Ah
area |
|
1974 |
Central water supply
installation completed |
|
1980s |
Exodus of Germans from Ah
continues |
|
1992 |
Population of Ah is 2139 of
which 84 are Germans (3.9%) |
|
1997 |
There are 63 Germans left in Ah
(34 are spouses or children of inter-ethnic marriages) |
