Introduction

      This book is dedicated to my husband, Paul von Schuster,
   architect, deceased in 1987. He was born in Timisoara where he
   lived his childhood without worries, and worked as an architect.
   He passed away in the Fall of 1987, and having a profound love
   for "his" hometown he is resting in the homeland "Josefin"
   cemetery from Calea Sagului, or the Sag's Way. I am a kid from
   the Banat mountains; my husband introduced me to this town. He
   also inspired my love for Timisoara, and his bookcase was my
   data source for this book.

      First of all, I would like to underline that this book was
   not developed as a historical documentation, being known the
   fact that there are a lot of problems awaiting an answer, or
   they may cause contradictory discussions whose solving belongs
   to the specialists. I am an art amateur and I love beauty and
   that is why I do not make an artistic analysis of the town
   buildings letting the experts in science and history to present
   you Timisoara from their perspective.

      As far as I am concerned, I wish to present you Timisoara in
   general, then I will accompany you, dear readers, through the
   districts of the town on the Bega river, stopping in front of
   some of the buildings I consider interesting. I wish to help the
   third generations to say "Once upon a time...", and the young
   people to know better the town where they were born, where they
   live, or where their parents or grandparents lived, and I say to
   all the people from other parts established and living here:
   "Look around and Love this town! It fully deserves it!" If I
   succeed I declare myself content. Come with me; let's browse
   together the book about the Banatian town Timisoara!

   The Author: Else von Schuster