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Valea Viilor Wurmloch (German)
Commune
Valea Viilor centre
Coat of arms
Location in Sibiu County
Valea ViilorLocation in Romania
Coordinates: 46°04′59″N 24°16′37″E / 46.0831°N 24.2769°E / 46.0831; 24.2769
Country	Romania
County	Sibiu
Government
• Mayor (2020–2024)	Ilie Avram Pinte (PSD)
Area	44.16 km (17.05 sq mi)
Elevation	331 m (1,086 ft)
Population	1,962
• Density	44/km (120/sq mi)
Time zone	EET/EEST (UTC+2/+3)
Postal code	557290
Area code	(+40) 02 69
Vehicle reg.	SB
Website	www.valea-viilor.ro

Valea Viilor (colloquially Vorumloc; German: Wurmloch; Hungarian: Nagybaromlak) is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 1,873 (as of 2011), and is composed of two villages, Motiș (Mortesdorf; Martontelke) and Valea Viilor. Each of these has a fortified church, Motiș fortified church and Valea Viilor fortified church. Both places were established and long inhabited by Transylvanian Saxons.

Motiș

Motiș village was previously known in Romanian as Motișdorf and Motișul. Alternate German names include Märtesdorf and Mertesdorf. In Latin records, it is called Villa Morteni.

It was first mentioned in 1319 as the property of Saxon counts Niklaus and Johann von Talmisch. In 1415, Mortesdorf was first called by its sole German name "Gemeinde Martin". Serfdom was abolished in 1848. Saxons made up the majority of the village population for centuries until the 1980s. The community emigrated en masse, chiefly to Germany; at that point, Romanians and Roma became dominant. By 2006, just one Transylvanian Saxon resided in the village.

See also

• Transylvanian Saxons
• Villages with fortified churches in Transylvania
• List of castles in Sibiu County

Gallery

• Valea Viilor fortified church
• View from the fortified church tower
• Street, with fortified church wall visible
• Fortified church of Motiș

References

1. "Populaţia rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021" (XLS). National Institute of Statistics.
2. History of Mortesdorf on Siebenbürger.de places, accessed on March 9, 2010 https://www.siebenbuerger.de/ortschaften/mortesdorf/informationen/

v t e Sibiu County, Romania
Cities	Sibiu (county seat) Mediaș
Towns	Agnita Avrig Cisnădie Copșa Mică Dumbrăveni Miercurea Sibiului Ocna Sibiului Săliște Tălmaciu
Communes	Alma Alțâna Apoldu de Jos Arpașu de Jos Ațel Axente Sever Bârghiș Bazna Biertan Blăjel Boița Brădeni Brateiu Bruiu Cârța Cârțișoara Chirpăr Cristian Dârlos Gura Râului Hoghilag Iacobeni Jina Laslea Loamneș Ludoș Marpod Merghindeal Micăsasa Mihăileni Moșna Nocrich Orlat Păuca Poiana Sibiului Poplaca Porumbacu de Jos Racovița Rășinari Râu Sadului Roșia Sadu Șeica Mare Șeica Mică Șelimbăr Slimnic Șura Mare Șura Mică Târnava Tilișca Turnu Roșu Valea Viilor Vurpăr

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