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Historic Churches around Sibiu |
 ORLAT
The Orthodox Church
with the patron St. Nicholas.
Built in 1796, in rectangular plane, with
a semi - circular altar and western tower.
The mural painting, preserved in the calotte
of the nave, was done by Simion Zugravul |
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 RASINARI
The Orthodox Church
with the patron Paraschiva the Pious. It was
raised between the years 1725 - 1758 on the
place of an ancient settlement from 1383 in
the Byzantine style. It is a hall - church
with a western tower, with interior and exterior
mural paintings executed by Popa Ioan, Grigore
Zugravul (1785), Ioan Pop, Nistor Stan, a.o |
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 SADU
The locality is situated
at 27 km South from Sibiu, in a picturesque
valley (Sadu Valley) where the first hydro
- electric plants have been built.
The Parochial Church with
the patron The Assumption of the Virgin. It
was built on the place of other two older
churches. Its actual shape is dated the XVIII-th
century.
The Wooden Church with the
patron The Assumption of the Virgin. Monument
from the end of the XVIII-th century. |
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 SALISTE
The Orthodox Church
with the patron The Ascenssion of Christ and
St. Oprea (The Big Church). Built
between 1761 - 1785, hallowed in the 13th
of January 1786. Interior and exterior frescos
from the original painting are still preserved,
belonging to the painters Ioan Popa, Florian
Muntean - from Saliste and Ioan from Aciliu
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THE
FORTIFIED CHURCHES AROUND SIBIU
The south - eastern part of Transylvania, corresponding
to the area where German communities
have been colonized (Flandrens, Teutons,
Saxons) by the kings of Hungary, has
a specific character. It is conferred
by the frequency of the fortified churches,
dating since the XIIth - XVIth centuries,
present in most of the villages colonized
by the German population, known under
the name of Saxons.
Such church - castles are found in other
parts of the medieval Europe, too, especially
in the Germanic area and in the South
of France, but their frequency and degree
of preservation is here greater then
anywhere in the world.
Their typology is various, passing from
the proper religious dwelling, fortified
for defense, and unfortified churches
sorrounded by walls and towers of defense,
to church - castles, endowed with many
fortified precints and bastions. One
of them sheltered buildings with different
functions: storage spaces under the
shape of bricks annexed to the walls,
fountains, schools, the priests' dwellings
and even town halls.
In Transylvania most of them started
by being churches in Romanic basilica
type (XIIIth century) or Gothic type
(XIVth - XVth centuries) that, as a
result of the Ottoman invasions from
the XVth - XVIIth centuries, have modified
their structure through overraisings,
vaults, fortification of the towers
or edifices. So, the initial Romanic
style was replaced with elements characteristic
for the late and mature Gothic style.
The churches, fortified or not, have
been sorrounded by walls, towers and
bastions of defense of a various and
picturesque diversity.
The greater frequency of fortified churches
is found in the Province Sibiu, divided,
in the XIVth century, in seven Chairs
(Orastie, Sebes, Miercurea, Sibiu, Nocrich,
Cincu and Rupea), as well as in the
localities from around Medias (from
The Two Chairs, Medias and Seica Mare).
Unlike the castles from the West of
Europe, the church - castles from the
South - Eastern part of Transylvania
were not permanently inhabited. They
had sacral functions, of sheltering
the population and of defeating it.
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 CISNADIE
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The
Saxon Castle and the Evangelic Church
is a Romanic Basilica built around the
first quarter of the 13-th century.
Its plan is composed of the three naves,
a choir followed by an apsis, lateral
apsis and a western massive tower. In
the 15-th and 16-th centuries, the church
was fortified. The inventory of the
church offers a procession cross from
the 13-th century, the gravestones of
the priest Johannes Hutter and his wife,
a fragment of statuary group in polychrome
wood, the old stone font (15-th century).
The castel around the church has three
precincts from the 15-th century. A
medieval shopping arcade that was built
into the perimeter walls still contains
shops. |
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 CISNADIOARA
The Castle
with its Romanic Basilica
on top of a 70m high hill above the
village, dated from 12-th century and
was for the first time mentioned in
1223 when magister Gocelinus donates
it to the monastery Carta. Inside the
church are still preserved the gravestones
of the German and Austro-Hungarian soldiers,
killed in the first World War. The fortification
around the church comprises an oval
wall precincts dated 13-th century.
The Evangelic Church. In the centre
of Cisnadioara stands an old Baroque
church (1764) including the western
tower of an older Gothic church. The
old painted pews from the 17-th and
18-th centuries, are still preserved.
Cisnadioara is a village neighbouring
the town of Cisnadie at 10 km from Sibiu
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 CRISTIAN
The Rural
Castle and the Evangelic CA Church.
Initially a Romanic basilica (XIII century)
was submitted to some changes in the
XIV-th century, than, during the years
1470 - 1486 it is turned into a hall
church - three naves in Gothic style,
by Andreas Lapicida, a master from Sibiu.
The fortifications of the rural castle
around the church were raised between
1498 - 1580 when the Pentagonal Tower
is built. The preservation condition
of the monument is good
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AROUND SIBIU
