{"id":8631,"date":"2018-03-25T04:52:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T03:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/?p=8631"},"modified":"2025-12-08T06:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:25:37","slug":"athens-to-stuttgart-road-trip-part-9-from-vidin-to-sibiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/athens-to-stuttgart-road-trip-part-9-from-vidin-to-sibiu\/","title":{"rendered":"Athens to Stuttgart Road Trip Part 9 \u2013 From Vidin to Sibiu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the Road again!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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On the bridge to Romania<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the 56 near Dolj<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the 65c near Va\u0302lcea\u2069<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Small settlements along the streets<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Every house has the graves next to it – and a small bridge that goes there<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More graves<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u200e\u2068Va\u0302lcea\u2069<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henri Coand\u0103 and the Coand\u0103-1910<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Henri Coand\u0103 went to school and studied in Romania, Germany, and Belgium. After a short stint in the army, he went for a car trip to Isfahan, Tehran, and Tibet in 1908!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After his return, he went to Paris and enrolled to become an aeronautical engineer. In 1910, he designed and built a plane known as the Coand\u0103-1910. The aircraft used a 4-cylinder piston engine to power a rotary compressor, which was intended to propel the craft by a combination of suction at the front and airflow out the rear instead of using a propeller. There is no proof that the plane ever was in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He constructed many other planes after the 1910. Along with many other inventions, the most famous of Coand\u0103’s discoveries is the Coand\u0103 Effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a replica of the 1910 original in Perisor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sibiu<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1191, Sibu was the first time officially recorded when Pope Celestine III confirmed the existence of the free prepositive of German settlers in Transylvania. In 1376, Sibiu became the most important ethnic German city among the seven cities that gave Transylvania its German name Siebenb\u00fcrgen. It is the most important cultural centers of Romania with lots of festivals, art, and other events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our room<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With a shower and a TV as well<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bathroom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A happy Mitsos with food he understands and wine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We shared the meal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The good Silva Beer – The Blonde Lager<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And the Pale Ale<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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House at the Strada Ocnai<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking down the street from the Dragonerwache<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Traditional Shop House<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Strada Ocnai – House with eyes. That is what my friend used to call the open windows in the roof<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See the small houses down the road?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Would be nice without the cars<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like this small lane<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The stairs leading up to the Lesser Square (Kleiner Ring)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Liars Bridge in Lesser Square, erected in 1859<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lutheran Cathedral of Saint Mary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turnul Sfatului<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brukenthal Palace was erected between 1777 and 1787 as the main residence for the Governor of Transylvania Samuel von Brukenthal. It houses the main part of the National Brukenthal Museum. The museum opened in 1817, which makes it one of the oldest museums in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above the entrance of the Bruckenthal Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the Grand Square or Gro\u00dfer Ring<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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House at the corner of the square<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Along the walking street<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walking down the Nicolae B\u0103lcescu street<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The girls need a bubble bath!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hmm – they could join<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Behind the big wood doors, you usually find a green courtyard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reformed Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ernst Wiesenfeld student housing. Or: The House with Caryatids at Mitropoliei Street, constructed in 1786<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dove is here to get the letter out<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Holy Trinity Cathedral<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The construction of the Cathedral started in 1902. A few houses and a little Greek church built in 1797 had served as a cathedral before. It had to be demolished to free up space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the Road again! On the bridge to Romania On the 56 near Dolj On the 65c near Va\u0302lcea\u2069 Small settlements along the streets Every house has the graves next to it – and a small bridge that goes there More graves \u200e\u2068Va\u0302lcea\u2069 Henri Coand\u0103 and the Coand\u0103-1910 Henri Coand\u0103 went to school and studied…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,725,726],"tags":[463,728,727],"class_list":["post-8631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-romania","category-sibiu","tag-europe","tag-romania","tag-sibiu"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/187.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Marc Hastenteufel","author_link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/author\/marc\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/187.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14310,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631\/revisions\/14310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}