The fortified Gothic Lutheran church (1496), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and hillside castle in Saschiz, Romania
Saschiz is a commune in Mures County, Romania. It has a population of 2,048: 88% Romanians, 5% Germans, 4% Hungarians and 3% Roma. It is composed of three villages: Cloașterf, Mihai Viteazu (Zoltan until 1932) and Saschiz. Saschiz, with its 15th-century church, is part of the World Heritage Site Villages with fortified churches in Transylvania, designated in 1999 by UNESCO. The Saschiz fortified church (Romanian: Biserica fortificata din Saschiz; German: Kirchenburg von Keisd) is a Lutheran fortified church in Saschiz (Keisd), Mures County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. It was built by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. Initially Roman Catholic, it became Lutheran following the Reformation.
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Location: Saschiz, Mures, Transylvania, Romania, Balkans, Eastern Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
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