Fortified church Mardisch

Fortified church of Mardisch, view from the south

Northeast tower

Choir Window (2008)

Gallery (2008)

Pulpit (2008)

decorated consoles (1997)

Securing work (2010)

Securing work (2010)

The fortified church Mardisch is a fortified church in Transylvania (today in Romania ) in the Schelker See, built by the Transylvanian Saxons of the village of Mardisch (Roman. Moardăș ) .

church

The Gothic hall church with west tower was built at the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th century. The choir is characterized by the variously decorated consoles on which the ribbed vault rests, including a kneeling figure with a basket on its back. The three choir windows have precisely executed tracery with three- and four-pass motifs, rosettes and fish bubble motifs. There is a Gothic tabernacle in the north wall of the choir. A bell tower stood in the west of the church until 1880.

The church was originally dedicated to St. Nicholas. In 1869 the parish priest complained about the neglect of the church and churchyard. In 1874 the sacristy was torn down. In 1880 - while the parishioners were making wood in the forest to support the dilapidated tower - it collapsed. Church repairs were carried out in 1913 and 1959. The organ pipes were confiscated during the First World War . The organ was put back into operation in 1963. At the beginning of the 1990s, after massive emigration of the Saxon population, the church was given up and is now left to decay.

Furnishing

The furnishings include a baroque altar from 1789. The altar framework and parts of the stalls are still in the church (as of 2008).

The organ by Samuel Matz (1801) with 10 registers was sold to Oradea in 1993 .

The fortified church

The church is surrounded by a square curtain wall, which was originally a considerable height. In the northeast corner there is a strongly protruding round tower with a conical roof.

Securing work 2010

In 2010, extensive securing work was carried out on the base, side pillars, roof truss and vaults by a team from the Technical School for Building Technology in Munich under the direction of Hans Gröbmayr and with the support of the “ Heimatortsgemeinschaft Mardisch”. The project was funded by the Leonardo da Vinci program of the European Union, by the Bavarian State Government and the Munich Building Guild.

Securing work 2011

Continuation of the backup work by the same team. The funds for the building materials were obtained from the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation of the US Embassy in Bucharest through the mediation of the control center for fortified churches.

Neighboring fortified churches or fortified churches

• Alpine pastures

See also

• Fortified churches in Transylvania (World Heritage)
• List of places in Transylvania with a fortified church or fortified church

Web links

Commons : Kirchenburg Mardisch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fortified churches and Saxon villages (Engl.)
• Transylvanian towns and cities on sevenbuerger.de
• List of Transylvanian-Saxon fortified churches, village churches and castles for Google Earth or Google Maps
• Control center fortified churches
• SbZ article

literature

• Hermann Fabini : Atlas of the Transylvanian-Saxon fortified churches and village churches. Volume 2 = illustrated book. Monumenta-Verlag including Hermannstadt 1999, ISBN 3-929848-15-5 (also in parallel: AKSL, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 973-98825-0-1 ), 527 fortified churches, all known, are represented with floor plans and descriptions of the building history.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Security and conservation measures at Mardischer Kirchenburg will be continued . Retrieved June 6, 2011.

Coordinates: 46 ° 0 ′ 30.4 ″  N , 24 ° 21 ′ 9.7 ″  E