Armenier im östlichen Europa - Armenians in Eastern Europe – serie

Der Band versammelt Beiträge von Kunsthistorikern, Bauforschern, Ethnologen und Historikern zur Rolle der Armenier in der frühneuzeitlichen Kunstgeschichte Zentral- und Osteuropas. Behandelt werden sakrale Malerei und illuminierte Handschriften, Architektur und Städtebau, Kunsthandwerk und -sammlungen. Den geografischen Rahmen bilden dabei die heutigen Staaten Polen, Ukraine, Belarus, Rumänien, Moldova und die Russländische Föderation. Die von armenischen Künstlern geschaffenen Werke spiegeln ihre multiethnische und plurikonfessionelle Umgebung wider, ohne dabei ihre ursprünglichen Tradi­tionen aus Mittlerem Osten und Kleinasien zu verleugnen.

This volume presents articles on the modern Armenian diaspora in post-socialist Europe, including the Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. Specialists from the fields of cultural anthropology, sociology, and area studies offer their insights into current developments of Armenian communities which, although located within common post-socialist time-space, differ from one another significantly in terms of their historical background, identity politics, and socio-cultural characteristics.

The book analyzes and compares the architectural characteristics of four Armenian colonies from the beginning of the eighteenth to the turn of the twentieth century: Gherla/Szamosújvár, Dumbraveni/Erzsébetváros, Gheorgheni/Gyergyószentmiklós and Frumoasa/Csíkszépvíz. The Transylvanian Armenian population played a decisive role in the architecture of Transylvania, and this represents a fascinating feature in the history of Armenians in the world. The analyses compare the architecture of the colonies on four levels. The settlement’s position in the network constitutes the first level. The second level comprises the structure, the building plots and street systems of the settlements. The third level consists of the analysis of the buildings. Finally, the last chapter presents the architectural-sociological interpretation of the townscapes at the turn of the twentieth century.