{"id":19014,"date":"2017-07-24T06:58:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T06:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/us-botschafter-hans-klemm-besucht-arbegen-und-denndorf\/"},"modified":"2024-01-03T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T09:52:11","slug":"us-botschafter-hans-klemm-besucht-arbegen-und-denndorf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/en\/us-botschafter-hans-klemm-besucht-arbegen-und-denndorf\/","title":{"rendered":"US Ambassador Hans Klemm visits Ag\u00e2rbiciu and Daia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hans Klemm, Ambassador of the United States of America in Bucharest, paid a brief visit to Ag\u00e2rbiciu and Daia in mid-July. Togeth<a href=\"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/4cc9e88aae.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5444\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5444 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/4cc9e88aae.jpg\" alt=\"in der Kirche (Denndorf)\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/4cc9e88aae.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/4cc9e88aae-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>er with the one in Movile, the fortified churches in the two Transylvanian villages are benefiting from funds from the <em>Ambassador&#8217;s Fund for Cultural Preservation<\/em> (AFCP). These budget funds will primarily be used to carry out work on the roofs.<\/p>\n<p>Back in May of this year, the Fortified Churches Foundation received a cheque for USD 59,300 from the AFCP via the regional consistory of the Evangelical Church A. C. in Romania (ECR). At that time, the ceremonial handover was celebrated with a spring festival and brunch in Movile.<\/p>\n<p>Hans Klemm was not yet familiar with Ag\u00e2rbicu and Daia, so the US diplomat took the opportunity of a stay in Transylvania to visit the two project churches in the company of the new American cultural attach\u00e9 Scott A. Reese.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation was first received in Daia (Sighi\u0219oara church district) by Uwe Hann and Daniela Proteasa (\u0218apte Brazi Association), as well as by Ruth Istv\u00e1n, Andreea M\u0103n\u0103stirean (Fortified Churches Foundation) and Stefan Bichler (Superior Consistory) and given a tour of the church. After the tour of the church, the US diplomat expressed his confidence in the tourism potential of Daia in an interview with Romanian television (TVR).<\/p>\n<p>They then travelled on to Ag\u00e2rbiciu (church district of Media\u0219), where Rev. Hildegard Servatius-Depner and parish curator Ingeborg Petru formed the reception committee and visited the church and churchyard together with the delegation. Cultural attach\u00e9 Reese was very impressed by the Metz organ from 1798 and even tried his hand at playing the organ. So the sunny 21st July not only brought unforgettable impressions for the Bucharest US delegation, but also brought them a few steps closer to saving Transylvania&#8217;s landscape of fortified churches.<\/p>\n<p><em>Text and Photos: Stefan Bichler<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hans Klemm, Ambassador of the United States of America in Bucharest, paid a brief visit to Ag\u00e2rbiciu and Daia in mid-July. Together with the one in Movile, the fortified churches in the two Transylvanian villages are benefiting from funds from the Ambassador&#8217;s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP). These budget funds will primarily be used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,44,64],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fortified-churches","7":"category-foundation","8":"category-monument-preservation-all-news","9":"czr-hentry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19016,"href":"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19014\/revisions\/19016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}