Was Villa Nucum the place the Teutonic Knights had chosen among others in order to build a citadel? That seemed to be indicated even by the simple positioning of Nussbach. Although he couldnâ??t find any document or proof of the passing of the white knights there, what he had noticed about the arrival and the settlement of the faithful warriors, in the depression line north from the mountains, made him feel almost certain of the fact that the village had been a pleasant place. Perhaps the lack of large precincts as the ones in Codlea or Feldioara was the proof that the too early banished knights had obeyed the Donation Diploma emitted by the chancellery of King Andrei II, allowing them to build only wooden citadels. That is how Johannes the chronicler was pondering the day when, without even noticing or feeling the thick smoke that reached the third level of the belfry, a fire had started causing the destruction of the church. It was the year when a fire also devastated the powerful citadel of Râ??nov, and the year when the flax weavers adapted their bastion to firearms.

The settlement of Măieru?? doesnâ??t appear in the Transylvanian documents earlier than 1377. The church, probably built between the 14^th and the 15^th century, was completely transformed after a powerful fire that devastated it in 1537. The architectural elements which were kept confirm the late Gothic style in which the church was initially built. The actual building is a hall church with a pentagonal choir and a belfry on the west side. On the outside the nave and choir do not have a common roof. A vestry was annexed to the north side of the choir in the period after the fire. The nave is supported outside by buttresses - as the choir - and has high and narrow windows ending in semicircular arches. A broken arch gothic portal with four retreats survived on the south side; however the entrance on the opposite side is simple, rectangular. The massive belfry with a clock has a slightly flared strengthened base supported also by buttresses. The entrance is marked by a light body, a bit unhooked from the plan of the massive ground floor. The four corners are marked by bossages and a trapezoidal roof, making the transition from this base towards the tower itself which includes a level without wide openings, followed by one with semicircular geminate windows. Above, four clock quadrants were placed on all four sides of the tower. The actual clock, mounted in 1929 replaced an older one, probably from the 18^th century, which had a wooden mechanism. This level ends with a trapezoidal roof crowned by a lunette.