Biertan fortified church
Biertan, Romania
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The Biertan fortified church is a Lutheran fortress church in Biertan, Sibiu County, in Transylvania, Romania. Built by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary, it was briefly Roman Catholic before becoming Evangelical Lutheran after the Reformation. Its Gothic architecture dates from 1524, and it forms part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the villages with fortified churches in Transylvania.
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- Built
- Type
- fortress church
- Heritage
- part of UNESCO World Heritage Site, Historic Monument
- Place
- Biertan, Romania
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