Welcome to Stephan Ludwig Roth Street, in Medias!
Local Businesses: Paltinis Restaurant, Leonardo Shoes & Accessories Shop, Fishing and Sports Store, Medias Police Station, Gift Shop.
History: Stephan Ludwig Roth was one of the great Humanist personalities of the 19th century. Born in 1796 in Medias, he was was a Transylvanian Saxon intellectual, pedagogue and Lutheran pastor, who fought for the rights of the Romanian people. Roth argued that Romanian be the official language in the region, standing by this principle during the 1848-1849 Revolution, proposing that official material be published simultaneously in Romanian,Hungarian and German. He attended the first ethnic Romanian gathering at Campia Libertatii (near Blaj) and wrote about it in the local press, highlighting Avram Iancu's contribution to the cause. Roth became a member of the Sibiu Pacification Committee, and commissioner for Saxon villages in Târnava-Mare (in November), as well as the administrator of the respective county. With the Hungarian victories in January 1849 came the end of local government structures. General Josef Bem offered the administrators amnesty, and Roth retired to Mediaş. Disregarding his immunity, local authorities had him arrested and sent to Cluj, where he was convicted of treason by a military tribunal and swiftly executed.
Local Information: Mediaș is a City in the Principality Siebenbürgen-Transilvania, Region Sibiu. It is situated in the middle basin of Târnava Mare River, at 39 km from Sighișoara and 41 km from Blaj. The health resort Bazna, officially recognized for the first time in 1302, is 18 km from Mediaș. The health resort offers mineral water springs, rich in salts, mineral mud and a special type of salt, called "Bazna salt". The distance between Mediaș and the county's residence Sibiu is 55 km.[edit]
