Three days after the pagan hoard had forsaken the quiet Hârtibaci valley, Ursula who was sent by her father to hide along with the rest of the women in one of the church towers, kept worrying about how she could save her brothers, house, animals and even her neighbors from the cruel and fierce horsemen, not being able to understand why they had been devastating the Saxon region for such a long time. 

The stories about the ones the parents would scare their disobedient children with, came from her great-grandfather who had arrived in Katzendorf from the region of Hesse, who was her age back then and, eager to learn a craft, wanted to become a journeyman of the well-known craftsmen in Agnetheln. And he became a tanner. More than one hundred years had passed since then, and her father was still dealing with leather tanning. Being in a somewhat similar situation with the saint whose name she had, she decided not to act like her, namely to kill herself together with her friends, but to drive away the horsemen even without becoming a saint. She thought of a plan no one could guess, she gathered up the pieces of leather and all the rags she could find in a corner of the tanners’ tower and she unexpectedly went out in front of the citadel screaming and hopping so dreadfully that the entire group of helmets started to howl not knowing what that creature was. Ursula’s courage was boundless and although she didn’t become a saint, over time she remained the lola that banished the Turks from Agnetheln. 

Agnita, an old craftsmen settlement, was first attested in a document from 1280. It was a well-known town not only due to the stupendous activity of the guilds of tanners, shoemakers, tailors, coopers or potters but also because of the vast citadel which fortified the church with towers that were built and maintained by the guilds themselves. Because of this status, since 1376 Agnita was given the royal privilege to hold an annual fair on Saint John’s day, on the 24th of June and the right to keep the seal of the Seat of Schenk, the center of the court, as it was attested in 1409 by a document issued by the chancellery of King Sigismund of Luxembourg. In the same century, because the town was situated near the border with Wallachia, King Matthias Corvinus granted the right to punish by execution with the sword and also granted the permission to recruit, in case of war, half of the men able to fight, for the defense of the citadel. 

It is not known precisely when the hall church was built, but it seems that it replaced an old Romanesque basilica. Together with the triple fortification, it underwent numerous transformations over time. The three naves end at the east with an elongated choir and a pentagonal altar which, to the south, has a narrow entrance for the priest and a Late Gothic tabernacle. Above the choir a defense level was built, consisting of a parapet which hid the machicolations under the archivolts that linked the buttresses; during the restoration works in 1892 the defense level was destroyed. 

The central nave bears a semi-circular vault with ribs that still have traces of the old terracotta ones on the southwestern side. The original square section pillars to which small and thin columns were attached, contributed to the support of the vault. Originally the pillars had semicircular archways which, towards the northern aisle, were turned into pointed arches. As a matter of fact, this lateral nave that preserves the traces of a Romanesque arch is lower than the southern aisle and is provided with a loft. The southern aisle reaches the height of the central nave, being covered with cross vaults, separated by transverse ribs in pointed arches. The church has three portals corresponding to each nave and the openings of the windows end in pointed arches. 

On the western side there is a massive belfry which, with its six levels and gallery with timber handrails, reaches the height of 44 meters. Since the ground floor is unhooked, it opens through three arcades, forming a portico in front of the main entrance. When the fortification works started at the beginning of the 16th century, the potters’ guild raised the ground floor, reinforcing it with a brick wall whose roof reached the second floor of the belfry. The interior was arranged on two levels, the upper one communicating with a gallery that connected the two ends of the western tower. The portico was also given a defense level provided with loopholes and a gallery made of timber. 

Around the church three series of precincts were successively built, out of which remained only four towers – the shoemakers’ tower, the tailors’ tower, the ironsmiths’ tower and the copper’s tower - that nowadays are not connected to the walls. The towers which were built of quarry and river stone were plastered on the outside and initially defended the superior part of the curtain walls. The access to the precinct was made under the vaulted entrance of the northern tower which was provided with a portcullis. This tower belonged to the carpenters’ guild. The one from the southeast belonged to the tailors, the one from the southwest also known as the Lard Tower belonged to the shoemakers and the one from the east belonged to the ironsmiths. All the four towers, each with five levels separated by wooden platforms and provided with vaulted loopholes, have the inner floors covered with vaults, except the tailors’ tower. The access to all of them was made through ladders, like in many other towers of the Saxon fortifications. 

Between the first two curtain walls the so-called Zwinger could be formed. The last polygonal curtain included a moat, being provided with natural defense on the exterior, due to the stream and to the swampy land. 

The chronicle of destructions and transformations broadly mentions as follows:

In 1600 troops of mercenaries burned the church which was renovated only in 1614; in 1845 the third curtain wall was dismantled; in 1867 the storage rooms surrounding the interior precinct collapsed; in 1870 the towers remained completely isolated and, from the materials obtained by dismantling the walls, a school was built; in 1890 parts of the vaults from the southern aisle were renewed; two years later the bastion over the choir was demolished and the church received a new roof.