The Village

 

Though it has grown old and forsaken, the village is still one of the main symbols of Transylvanian Hungarians’ past, present and future.

Its fate, its survival or its destruction is the responsibility of all ethnic Hungarians. It is threatened by the power of the authority.
The farmer closed up his doors whenever he saw a stranger with a briefcase. Those citizens, who came home at the weekend just for a visit or to help people in need of support, believed that there was no reason for suffering, nor  for working on the fields.
We are in the 20th century and the village is our wealth: the earth, the forest, the field, the church, the school, the house and the cemetery. The fields are uncultivated and the entrepreneur urgently changes his mind about his future plans. In  schools there aren’t enough pupil, the church is too large for such a small community.
Our mansions stood on their feet for ages and now we destroy them.
Our foolish ignorance and rebuilding fever cause the mansion’s disappearance.

…being grown old and forsaken, the village is the ethnic Hungarian’s proof of existance, having its roots in the distant past and now looking forward for its future. This is the inheritance the village gives to us and it is this that we can give to our children.

 

Hlavathy Karoly – 2000 - Esztelnek

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