BISERICA EVANGHELICĂ, Biertan, Jud. Sibiu, Romania

BISERICA EVANGHELICĂ
Biertan

Entrance ticket series 507194.
10 Lei

The Biertan Evangelical Basilica (German: Kirchenburg von Birthälm) is a Lutheran fortified church built by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. The church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was constructed in Late Gothic style between 1486 and 1524 on the site of an earlier Romanesque church. The church was occupied and robbed in 1704, during Rákóczi's War of Independence. It suffered damage during the 1977 Vrancea earthquake and subsequently underwent restoration work between 1983 and 1989. Together with the surrounding village, the church forms part of the villages with fortified churches in Transylvania UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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