The
Kalvarienberg
- is one of
the numerous
hills on the
Banater
terrain
whose origin
is unknown
and hardly
became
investigated.
Only some
one has
carried out
excavations
and has
discovered
burial
places with
grave
additions.
The finding
points to
inhabited
space of old
trunks and
people,
particularly
as the Banat
was an ideal
gate and
passage
country for
the most
different
people,
thanks to
its positive
geographic
position.
After the
researching
of the
historians
Florin
Medelet and
Ioan Bugilan
who had on
the Billeder
community
six such
comments.
Most famous
and far most
visible this
hill lies
with the
Torontaler
highway
approximately
1 km SE of
the Billeder
local
border. The
8 metres
high and 50
metre in the
diameter
rather
substantial
hills
because of
the
crossroads
stations
built on it
named
"Calvary".
It is the
most
important
and best
looked after
of these
hills. The
other five
were lost by
erosion and
ploughing
considerably
in height.
Already
Johann Jakob
Ehrler has
mentioned
this hill as
a Banater
curiosity in
his report "the Banat
of the
origin in
1774" and
has
distinguished
two sorts,
from the
Roman times
and from the
wondering of
the people.
Other
authors
speak from
Turks
“Kumanenoder Awarenhügel”.
The recent
research
work shows
the exact
development
of 201 hills
applied by
human hands
in the
Romania SW.
After
investigating,
there were
no legends
about the
Calvary. The
first news
provided
about a
religious
monument on
this hill in
the
inspection
report
written in
1837 by the
bishop of
the
Tschanader
diocese
Joseph
Lonovics,
who mentions
the "cross
on the
Kleinbetschkerek
the
convenient
hill" to
which
annually on
Good Friday
at 6 o'clock
in the
morning a
procession
made a
pilgrimage
as well as
with dryness
and
disasters.
On November
7, 1845,
minister
Paul Novak
build on
this hill
the eye
viewing "crossroads", likely
between
1869-1872.
At that time
on the hill
near the
highway
crossroads
stations
with a main
cross were
built from
clay bricks.
The
Billeders
could be
proud of it,
because no
other hills
similar in
that size
were found
in any other
Banater
municipality.
The far
visible
Calvary
became Billed’s
landmark and
still is
today. In
1930, the
first
general
renovation
was carried
out. Losses
left it’s
partial
devastation
during the
fighting’s
in 1944 and
the
violations
during the
last 50
years, which
were
accepted, of
the
authorities
without
interest.
