Prejmer fortified church

The Prejmer fortified church is a Lutheran fortified church in Prejmer, Bra?ov County, within the Transylvania vicinity of Romania and the ethnographic area of the Burzenland. The church become based via the Germanic Teutonic Knights, after which turned into in the end taken over by using the Transylvanian Saxon community. Initially Roman Catholic, it have become Lutheran following the Reformation. Together with the encircling village, the church forms a part of the villages with fortified churches in Transylvania UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Around 1211, King Andrew II of Hungary permitted the knights to settle around Prejmer, where they commenced building a church in 1218, in Gothic fashion. They had been liable for the Greek move plan, the most effective considered one of its kind in Transylvania, however discovered in a few churches in northeast Germany. Following their expulsion in 1225, the Cistercians, who took over in 1240, finished the church. The triptych altarpiece, the oldest within the province, dates to around 1450; the main panel is joined to side panels painted on each faces, on degrees. The complete piece depicts scenes from the Passion of Christ.