Valchid Waldhutten (Transylvania)
The fortified evangelical church of Valchid was built in the 14th century, on the site of a much older Romanesque basilica.
Situated on a small tributary of Târnave Mari, the settlement of Valchid owes its first documentary mention to a conflict of 1345 in which the peasants from Valchid were interrogated in the process of robbing the Saxons from Curciu and other villages belonging to the neighboring localities, the Nou Sasesc and Roandola. .
The church is long and narrow, surrounded by ten buttresses erected specially to support the walls of the hall. The enclosure has a gray-yellow color, a color given by the reddish-brown sandstone from which it is built. The walls were dated to the beginning of the 16th century.
The watchtowers are located in the middle of the sides of the walls, the watchtower continuing on their façades. This is completely different from most fortified churches that have towers usually located at the corners of the precincts. The main portal on which a finely carved embrasure is seen, similar to the western portal of the evangelical church in Sibiu, is located on the blackened facade of smoke on the west side of the church. The church itself was never fortified, due to the height of the curtains of about 10 meters which led to the deterrent of the attackers.
The original vault of the ship was destroyed by the 1916 earthquake and was replaced by with a baroque vaulted vault that shows the ornaments in the stucco, with double arches. The boys' grandstand built in the west was built in the 19th century and was renovated in 1922 when another grandstand supported by two brick arches was erected along the north wall.
Valchid Waldhutten (Transylvania)
The fortified evangelical church of Valchid was built in the 14th century, on the site of a much older Romanesque basilica.
Situated on a small tributary of Târnave Mari, the settlement of Valchid owes its first documentary mention to a conflict of 1345 in which the peasants from Valchid were interrogated in the process of robbing the Saxons from Curciu and other villages belonging to the neighboring localities, the Nou Sasesc and Roandola. .
The church is long and narrow, surrounded by ten buttresses erected specially to support the walls of the hall. The enclosure has a gray-yellow color, a color given by the reddish-brown sandstone from which it is built. The walls were dated to the beginning of the 16th century.
The watchtowers are located in the middle of the sides of the walls, the watchtower continuing on their façades. This is completely different from most fortified churches that have towers usually located at the corners of the precincts. The main portal on which a finely carved embrasure is seen, similar to the western portal of the evangelical church in Sibiu, is located on the blackened facade of smoke on the west side of the church. The church itself was never fortified, due to the height of the curtains of about 10 meters which led to the deterrent of the attackers.
The original vault of the ship was destroyed by the 1916 earthquake and was replaced by with a baroque vaulted vault that shows the ornaments in the stucco, with double arches. The boys' grandstand built in the west was built in the 19th century and was renovated in 1922 when another grandstand supported by two brick arches was erected along the north wall.