Posted on 05.09.2015, 02.03.2016
Located in the Târnavelor Plateau, at a few km from Viscri, the village of Roadeş (Radeln) was first mentioned in a complaint made by count Jakobus to the voivode of Wallachia, where he protests against the violation of his property by the Saxons from Archiud, Roadeş, Criţ, Meşendorf and Sânmiclăuş. The church in Roadeş was built in the second half of the 14th century, and fortified in 15th century. Roadeş has all the characteristics of the Transylvanian Saxon villages, about which I wrote here. Its name comes from the German verb Roden, "to cut trees".
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