The fortified town of Biertan

The Biertan belongs to the firsts German settlements from Ardeal area. The sibian locality was documentary artified in 1283. Like any other Transylvanian Saxon settlement, it had an urbanized organization being remarked through it’s own specific style of the house range surrounding the central market above which the imposing fortified town church ascends.
   The medieval architectural complex is composed church and the fortification belt, being placed on a hill right in the center of this settlement. The hall church type fills the central part of the complex and it is the last one built in late Gothic style with Renaissance elements in Transylvania. The monumental edifice of big dimensions has three halls of equal heights. The vestry door is rejoicing of an international fame with a sophisticated locking system that contains 19 lockers made by local craftsmen in 1515 that also aroused a special interest, without forgetting to mention that was awarded at the Global Exhibition in 1900 at Paris, nevertheless constitutes a representative example of transylvanian Saxon manufacturing of medieval times giving thanks to the original locking system that works even nowadays. The surrounding fortifications are considered the most powerful ones belonging to a rustic fortified town from Transylvania. The „Mausoleum“ tower placed at the north-est and shelters at the ground-floor the shrines of this church’s pontiffs. The catholics tower is located on the south wing and became a chapel for the catholics after the reform.
   The Biertan commune is situated at 80 km away from the town of Sibiu in the north part of the district, an area where the smooth and extended summits of the hills are being damped by the natural aspect specific to this area.
   You can get there by following the district road that by-passes from DN14 on the route Sibiu-Medias-Sighisoara, at 10 km from the road junction.