Rodna church ruins

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Rodna tower ruin, view from NW (2010)

The church ruin Rodna , a once towerless Romanesque basilica , is located in the municipality of Rodna ( Alt-Rodna ) in northern Transylvania , district of Bistrița-Năsăud , Romania .

church

The Church of St. Mary was a Romanesque basilica with a central nave and aisles. A choir adjoined to the east . Parts of the Romanesque substance have been preserved to this day. In the second half of the 13th century, a two-tower facade was built in the west of the basilica . The Gothic details also come from this construction phase .

history

At the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century the church was built by the Transylvanian Saxons in Rodna. After the destruction of Rodna by the Tatars on March 31, 1241, they deported the German miners to Mongolia. The basilica was rebuilt and at times also served as a border castle to protect the pass into the Vltava and Máramaros County ( Maramures ).

Rodna, in the historic Bistritz district , lost its Saxon inhabitants between 1766 and 1812; from 1812 the choir was used by the Greek Catholic community . According to various sources, the old Romanian church was built over the foundation of the choir in 1825 or 1859.

photos

  • Rodna in the Josephine Land Survey from 1769 to 1773

  • Ruin with remains of windows

  • Ruin of the basilica and church tower of the old rum. church

  • Ruin of the basilica with old entrance

  • Entrance to today's church

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heinz Heltmann, Gustav Servatius (Ed.): Travel Guide Siebenbürgen. Kraft, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-8083-2019-2 .
  2. ↑ Resurse turistice , on the website of the municipality of Rodna, accessed on December 5, 2010 ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Romanian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.primaria-rodna.ro

Sources and 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.

Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '  N , 24 ° 49'  E