Elizabeta

Together with St. Helena, another village called Elizabeta (also Elizabethfeld), was founded in the first wave of colonization in the early 1820s. It was located about 1 km northwest of St. Helena in a valley that is still called Lizabeta today. However, the village completely disappeared within a quarter of a century and its inhabitants moved to other villages, especially St. Helena. Many different factors contributed to the demise of the village – the difficult living conditions, alleged land disputes with the Romanian population and, above all, the drying up of the stream next to which the village was founded. It has been reported that Elizabeta suffered a devastating fire just before it was abandoned in 1846-1847, which was probably the final blow.

Unfortunately, there are no ruins left after the village and Elizabeta is not even shown on maps from the period – the first military mapping took place half a century before the village was founded, the second and third military mapping and cadastral map were created after its demise. All that is left in the Lizabeta area today are several tens of metres of linear terrain formations (similar to low embankments) running perpendicularly to the road, which could be interpreted as the remains of boundaries, fences or walls between individual plots. The exact location of the village is still unknown.