| Doştat | |
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| Location in Alba County | |
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Doştat
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| Country | Romania |
| County | Alba County |
| Population (2002)[1] | |
| • Total | 1,072 |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
Doştat (German: Thorstadt) is a commune located in Alba County, Romania. It has a population of 1,072 and is composed of three villages: Boz, Dealu Doştatului and Doştat.
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Boz (German: Bußd or Bussd, Hungarian: Buzd) is a village in the Doştat commune. The name seems to be derived from Slavic Boz meaning elder bush.[2]
The village is part of Doştat commune. The first document that mentions the village is from 1290. In 1786 there were 571 inhabitants recorded, in 1936 there were 1013 inhabitants, from which 342 Saxon Germans.
In 1992, after almost all Saxon citizens emigrated (mainly to Germany), there remained only 371 inhabitants.[3]
It is the birthplace of the Lutheran priest Mathias Schuster who has founded the village Rosenau in Seewalchen commune in Austria, as a refuge place for the German population (Saxons and landler) from Transylvania and other parts of Eastern Europe who had to flee after World War II in order to escape the communist deportation to the Soviet Union and imprisonment.
In the period of war, on their way to the Russian front, being enrolled in the German army (as Waffen SS), the men from Bussd wrote on the walls of the train in their home dialect: 'Holt Dich, Stalin, un der Grunn, denn de Bussder kunn', "Tremble for your moustache, Stalin, 'couse the people from Bussd are coming!" .
A meaningful joke about Bussd can be found a German journal: In the train from Kronstadt to Vienna, a peasant from Bussd is sitting next to a merchant from Vienna, who was continuously rhapsodizing about his beautiful city. Because the peasant wasn't paying any attention, the merchant asked him: So tell me, you really haven't been in Vienna before? The peasant then answered drily: Well, have you ever been in Bussd?[4]