Lutheran Church in Neppendorf (Kistorony, Turnișor)
Biserica Evanghelică din Turnișor
Lutheran Church in Neppendorf (Kistorony, Turnișor)
Biserica Evanghelică din Turnișor
Address:
Kistorony, Neppendorf, Strada Eduard Albert Bielz 62
Historical Hungarian county:
Szeben
GPS coordinates:
45.7898558398, 24.1175983378
History
Kistorony (Neppendorf, Turnişor) was once an independent municipality and is now part of Nagyszeben. Its fortified church is the only one of the Saxon churches to have a cruciform layout, and its tower was originally used as a watchtower.
Its parish church was first mentioned in 1327, and its parish priest, Nicholas, was also the dean of the district of Seben.
According to researchers, the church is at least a century older than the first known record of its parish priest. Based on this, it could have been built in the first decade of the 13th century. It was originally a three-nave, pillared basilica church with a transept and a tower.
The Romanesque church was destroyed by the Turks in 1493, and it took nearly a century of construction to restore it from its ruins. The sanctuary was restored in 1548, and in 1747 the original square tower was rebuilt, above a crossing at the junction of the sanctuary and nave, but on a narrower base, so that the east wall is supported by two new built-in pillars. The three-nave basilica layout was abolished: only one nave joins the old transept, with an extended width.
The vault of the nave and the sanctuary were rebuilt between 1759 and 1762, the vault of the southern transept in 1771. In 1782, a new part was built on the foundations of the former north aisle. At the same time, the medieval bulwark with arrowslits was restored, but today it is unfortunately only partially intact. Its defence tower was demolished in the mid-20th century when the school was built.
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