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GERGELY LÁSZLÓ / PÉTER RÁKOSI – Kempelen Tour

Photo series, 2007

In the autumn of 1767, in his capacity as the emperor's commissio­ner, Farkas Kempelen visited 35 villages in the Banat in the course of two months, to prepare a report on 18th-century German-speak­ing settlements. As a commissioner for settlement, he visited the following villages:

Nagycsanád (1), Nagyszentmiklós (2), Perjámos (3), Németszent­péter (4), Zádorlak (5), Újarad (6), Angyalkút (7), Temeshidegkút (8), Lippa (9), Lugos (10), Karánsebes (11), Mehádia (12), Temeskutas (13), Versec (14), Fehértemplom (15), Susara (16), Pancsova (17), Révaújfalu (18), Nagybecskerek (19), Detta (20), Csák (21), Újpécs (22), Temesvár (23), Temesrékas (24), Hidasliget (25), Temesgyar­mat (26), Szentandrás (27), Merczyfalva (28), Szakálháza (29), Billéd (30), Nagyjécsa (31), Csatád (32), Garabos (33), Zsombolya (34), Óbesenyő (35)

At the time, the journey led through three counties, Krassó-Szörény, Temes and Torontál. To take the same journey, now we had to cross national boundaries. Following Kempelen's footsteps on the basis of his own notes, we spent a week in the Banat .

Text: Gergely LÁszló, Péter Rákosi