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Moves are at last underway to restore to their rightful home more than fifty Ottoman Turkish rugs taken fromTransylvania to Germany late in WorldWar II by the Saxon parishioners of the Lutheran Church in Bistrita, Romania. Since 1952, the rugs have been held in storage, \u2018on loan\u2019 to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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50 years after the end of WW2, after the fall of the \u2018iron curtain\u2019 and of the wall in Berlin, after the ingress of Romania in the EEC it\u2019s time to have the rugs of Bistri\u0163a back in Transylvania at their rightful owner, the Evangelical Parish of Bistri\u0163a, where the Church of the local Saxon community stands.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Read the story of the Ottoman rugs of Bistrita published by <\/span>HALI issue 160 <\/a><\/p>\n

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The drammatic image of the fire which almost distroyed the Tower of the Bistrita Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On June 11 2008a catastrophic fire destroyed the bell-tower of the Bistri\u0163a Church, which was under restoration. The dramatic images of the fire (wh<\/p>\n

ich can be seen on YouTube) shocked the whole country and recall the memory of other fires which affected the medi<\/p>\n

eval churches such as the one which destroyed in 1689 the Black Church in Bra\u015fov, when all the carpets burnt.
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pair but now the members of the local Evangelical parish with the support of the public administration and with unanimous solidarity started the reconstruction of the damaged sections. They all have a common objective clearly set by the mayor of Bistri\u0163a: in June 2013, on the celebrations of 500 years from its construction, the Evangelical Parish Church will be reopened. And the for the occasion, the 52 rugs of the Parish, which since 1952 are kept in storage in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, should return back home.<\/p>\n


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