Seligstadt fortified church
The fortified church Seligstadt is a fortified church in Transylvania (today in the Brașov district , Romania ) in the Schenker chair, which was built by the Transylvanian Saxons of the village of Seliştat (German Seligstadt ) .
Fortified church
The church (St. Nicholas) was built in the 1st half of the 14th century as a Gothic hall church without a bell tower with a polygonal choir closure. The choir has buttresses, a low roof and low windows and a Gothic groin vault. At the end of the 15th century a three-storey defense tower with a wooden battlement was built above the choir. The buttresses were placed on the partially existing buttresses of the Gothic church. The new buttresses covered three pointed arch windows. The choir tower received loopholes and a hipped roof.
In a second stage of defensive defense, the church wall was surrounded with buttresses, which are connected to each other by round arches. The fortified storey above was equipped with shooting niches, and the west portal of the church was secured with a portcullis.
In 1848 a brick vault was built in place of the Gothic star net vault.
In 1964 the church was consolidated with concrete belts.
In 1997, extensive renovation work was carried out on the church. Under the direction of Pastor Johannes Klein from Fogarasch and with the support of many voluntary helpers, the parish and school house was expanded into a youth center.
Furnishing
The altar from 1807 contains a main painting by the painter Fritz Schullerus from 1892. The baroque pulpit cover is dated 1652.
In 1867 the organ builder Samuel Binder combined the organ from Bekokten with an organ from 1746. The result was an organ with 10 registers.
In the bell tower, the large bell is not dated; the middle one was cast in 1921.
The fortified church
The hall church was built at the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century. In the 15th century the church was surrounded by a curtain wall. In the north there was a three-story fortified bastion, in the northeast of the fortified church there is a fruit house.
Neighboring fortified churches or fortified churches
See also
- Fortified churches and fortified churches in Transylvania
- List of fortified churches and fortified churches in Transylvania
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.
Web links
- Seligstadt on sevenbuerger.de
- Seligstadt
- List of Transylvanian-Saxon fortified churches, village churches and castles for Google Earth or Google Maps
- Fortified churches foundation
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 45 ° 59 ′ 14 " N , 24 ° 51 ′ 44.4" E