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St. Bartholomew Lutheran Church, Bartholomäuskirche

Biserica Sfântul Bartolomeu
St. Bartholomew Lutheran Church, Bartholomäuskirche
Biserica Sfântul Bartolomeu
Biserica Sfantul Bartolomeu-Brasov - panoramio
Andrei Dan Suciu, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Lutheran
Address:
Strada Lungă 251
Historical Hungarian county:
Brassó
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.6626916094, 25.5775433405
Google map:

History

The Saxon Lutheran Church of St Bartholomew in Brassó (German: Bartholomäuskirche) stands on the border of Óbrasso and the Bertalan quarter named after the church, under the Gespreng hill.

During the perion of the House of Árpád, there was already a church on its site and a settlement around it, which we can only assume was owned by the Teutonic Knights and after their expulsion by the Abbey of Kerc. This is indicated by the fact that the present church, built in the 13th and 14th centuries, bears the hallmarks of the (Cistercian) style of the Abbey of Kerc. It is a three-nave basilica with a transept, in early Gothic style with Romanesque elements.

The Hungarians of Brassó later called it the Church of the Orphan girls, because according to tradition it was built by three orphaned daughters who were buried under the altar. After the town was established, it became the parish church of the northern part of Óbrassó. After the destruction of the Turks in 1421 and Vlad Țepeș's army in 1460, it was rebuilt with major modifications and received its present ceiling. In 1502, a school was mentioned next to it. Its main altar was completed in 1791. It was restored at the beginning of the 19th century, but its tower collapsed in the 1833 earthquake and was replaced by a taller one in 1840-1842. It is surrounded by a cemetery and a defensive wall. The parsonage was built in 1905. Since 2003 it has housed an exhibition of Saxon ethnography.

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