«This house is mine and mine it isn’t» — Tariverde Germans and their heritage
«This house is mine and mine it isn’t» — Tariverde Germans and their heritage

Summary/Abstract: Tariverde and Cogealac, two rural settlements that are situated a few kilometers inward from lagoon area, both of them having an interesting history, marked by several dramatic shifts within their de-mographics, along with a post-1990 era which became synonymous with a general desire to mimic ur-ban comfort, which heavily distorted the architectural heritage left behind by past generations. A high-ly particular note which marked the development of these two settlements was the presence of Ger-man settlers, and Kashubians –only in Tariverde, that settled here in the 19th century, leaving a still-visible contribution to the place’s architectural landscape. Tariverde, named Dorotea in the past, has its most iconic building (Saint Peter and Paul Church) erected by the Lutheran Germans that settled about two centuries ago into the village. Nowadays, both Tariverde and Cogealac still preserved certain archi-tectural relics, but the way in which they present themselves today is rather different than in the past. Due to the semi and quasi-urbanization that occurred in both places, by this we specifically point that the settlements started to use various amenities that were usually found in urban centers. Besides the amenities, the newly-constructed homes were less caring of the way in which they were contrasting the already-existing structures, thus numerous oddities started to appear as a result of the uncontrolled manner in which the new was pushing for more territory in the detriment of the old. The current paper will analyze the manner in which the architectural landscape of both settlements had evolved over time, the novelties that become more present from the 1900s to the present, and the relics left behind by the German settlers.

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