Prejmer

Prejmer is a commune in Brașov County, Romania. It is composed of 3 villages: Lunca Câlnicului, Prejmer and Stupinii Prejmerului. Located 18 km northeast of Brașov, the Olt River passes through the commune. The Teutonic Knights constructed the castle Tartlau in 1212 to 1213 as part of their colonization of the Burzenland place. The town of Prejmer near the fort had began development with the aid of 1225, and became the japanese-maximum settlement of the Transylvanian Saxons. Prejmer become time and again invaded throughout the Middle Ages by way of various agencies, including the Mongols, Tatars, Hungarians, Ottoman Turks, Cossacks, and Moldavians. However, the fortress become handiest captured as soon as, by using Gabriel Báthory in 1611.

Most of Prejmer's German populace fled the commune after the Romanian Revolution of 1989. Prejmer is stated for its fortified church, one of the exceptional preserved of its type in Eastern Europe. Between 1962–1970, the Romanian authorities carefully restored it to its gift situation; the recovery paintings become finished beneath the direction of architect Mariana Angelescu and engineer Alexandru Dobriceanu.