Weaver's Bastion, Weberbastei, History Museum of Brassó County
Bastionul Țesătorilor
Weaver's Bastion, Weberbastei, History Museum of Brassó County
Bastionul Țesătorilor
Original function:
town fortification
Address:
Strada George Coșbuc 9, Brașov 500015, Románia
Historical Hungarian county:
Brassó
GPS coordinates:
45.6369004826, 25.5889338294
History
The Bastion of the Weavers (Romanian: Bastionul Țesătorilor, German: Weberbastei) is the southern corner bastion of the town fortifications of Brassó. It was built at the beginning of the 15th century and took its present form in the 16th century. The building in the courtyard houses the permanent exhibition of the Brassó County History Museum.
Originally a two-storey bastion, it was built between 1421-1436 by the Weavers' Guild along with the very first walls of Brassó, and was designed to function as a separate castle if necessary. The bastion was first mentioned in documents in 1522. In 1554, the south-western defences were reinforced by the addition of a second wall. Between 1570 and 1573, two more storeys and two towers were added to the bastion.
South of the bastion there was a shooting range (Czylstatt) in the 16th and 17th centuries, where members of the Brassó guilds and brotherhoods and students of the Saxon grammar school practised. It was destroyed by fire in 1689. The bastion was spared by the fire, but it partially collapsed during an earthquake in June 1710 and was only restored in 1750. At the end of the 18th century, the defensive role of the bastion was lost due to the development of military technology. Between 1800 and 1807, several buildings were erected inside: the Guildhall, a guardroom and a ballroom (Hochzeitsaal), where weddings were held in the first half of the century. In 1857, a tree nursery was established next to the bastion; it is now a park and a playground.
After the guilds were abolished in 1877, the city took over the assets of the weaver's guild, including the bastion, paying compensation. In 1884, the town leased it to the Lutheran parish, which opened a workshop school in it, where interested youngsters were introduced to the mysteries of plaster moulding. In 1899 the parish bought it. Renovations were carried out in 1910, and from 1913 onwards the Saxon Museum of Barcaság held exhibitions in the buildings. In 1948, the communists who came to power nationalized the building, and in 1950 it was taken over by the newly established county museum.
Its irregular hexagonal shape, 36 to 40 metres on each side, encloses a courtyard of 1616 m². It is 12-17 metres high, with stone and brick walls 4.3 metres thick at the bottom and 1.5 metres thick at the top. Inside, a four-storey wooden scaffolding is attached to the wall, which has openings at each storeys: loopholes for cannons and pitch openings at the lower two levels, and small loopholes for rifles at the upper storeys, which were built later. It has two watchtowers, a north-east and a south-east, from which it was possible to keep an eye on most of the south-west and south-east walls. It was originally connected by a low section of wall to the tower of the cutlers, built on the side of the Cenk Hill.
This is one of the best preserved bastions of the town fortification, still intact in its 16th century form. Inside, the permanent exhibition "Brassó Castle and fortifications of Barcaság" of the County Museum displays old photographs, Turkish weapons and former objects of the weaver's guild. The most interesting attraction is a 1:200 scale model of the 17th century Brassó town fortifications, made by the sculptor and drawing teacher Friedrich Hermann for the celebrations of the Hungarian Millennium in 1896. The Romanian communist leadership objected that the model only showed the Saxon-inhabited town fortress, so in 1968 a model of the 19th century Vlach-inhabited Boolgárszeg was also made.
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