ÉnlakA
The first time I heard about this place was in the fith grade, when our class visited the local church. I remember my teacher saying, that this place is going to die out. I was fascinated by the fact that someone can just say that, it was like she was saying there is no more hope.
Énlaka has a very rich history running back to the Roman Empire, it has been one of the most important villages of the area in the 20th century with blooming agriculture and cultural life. After the fall of communism many of the inhabitants moved away to the nearest city and slowly everything in the village started to fall apart. The once flourishing farms turned into ghost land with the majority of population being too old to work with animal breeding or to cultivate the land. For most of them the only possibility to earn money is to sell milk to the local dairy factory since there are no other job opportunities.Now it has around 120 inhabitants out of which 80 percent are retired and only 10 percent are minors.
Having family roots in the village, that moved away as everyone else, it has always been a personal goal to go back and try to find out the reason they moved and to get familiar with a place that is part of our family history.