The church

The little church was built in the centre of the village in the 14th century. It originally had a single rectangular nave and a polygonal choir. All that is now left of it are the longitudinal walls of the nave.

Once the fortification works were started around the 1500s, a keep was built on the western wall of the nave, in a way similar to those that existed in nearby villages. The ground floor of the keep had a portico that protected the western doorway of the church. On the first floor, the tower had a well which was supplied with water from a spring under its foundations. This was probably why the keep began to lean on its foundation and the bells had to be moved to the north-eastern defensive tower. Due to this leaning, the ground floor also had to be filled up with earth and stones, sealing up the western access, which was replaced with an entrance on the southern wall of the nave.

The fortification

The first mantle walls were erected at the beginning of the 16th century and enclosed an irregular, polygonal precinct. Later, except for the southern one, they were all doubled. During the reconstruction of 1860, the inner walls were dismantled and the material was reused in building the church.

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