The church
The main nave of the fortified church is covered with a penetration barrel vault richly decorated with ribs that form a rhombic pattern. The square-shaped choir too is covered with such ribs. A four-storey tower was built above it and was called the "plum tower" because people used to dry plums there. Its roof has a slender, elongated silhouette.



At one point in time, the tower also had a wall passage. The access to it and to the rest of the tower was either through the western portal, which was covered by a semicircular archivolt, or through the northern portal. On the premises of this latter, a square, four-storey defence tower was erected. The defence tower could once be accessed directly from inside the church, at ground level, but this passageway was later walled up and a doorway opened towards the exterior. The upper levels could be reached by a stairway built inside the breadth of the wall.

The fortification



The church was surrounded by a polygonal mantle wall, well adapted to the terrain and occasionally reinforced with buttresses. The western sector was doubled. On the north side of the gate tower one can still see the stone hooks that served to lower the portcullis. It seems that the tower had one more storey, at the base of which the machicolation was lined up. Another tower with white walls was set up on the northern, hillside part of the wall. This is where the curtain wall starts from, doubling the mantle wall of the church.

You can find more information about this church and many others on this CD dedicated to the fortified churches in Transylvania.

Useful web links:

http://www.hundertbuecheln.de/