St. Margaret's Church (Romanian: Biserica Sfânta Margareta; German: Margarethenkirche) is a Lutheran church, located at 1 Piața Castelului in the historic town center of Mediaș (Mediasch), Sibiu County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. The present, late Gothic structure was built between 1437 and 1488 by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. Consecrated as a Roman Catholic church, with St Margaret of Antioch as its patron saint, it became Lutheran following the Reformation.
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| - Margarethenkirche (Mediaș) (de)
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| - Die Margarethenkirche ist die Stadtpfarrkirche der Evangelischen Kirche A.B. in Mediaș im heutigen Rumänien, deren schiefer Hauptturm, der Trompeterturm oder Tramiter, auch heute noch das Stadtbild beherrscht. Die Kirche gehört zu den bedeutendsten spätgotischen Kirchenburgen der Siebenbürger Sachsen, von denen einige heute zum UNESCO-Welterbe zählen. (de)
- St. Margaret's Church (Romanian: Biserica Sfânta Margareta; German: Margarethenkirche) is a Lutheran church, located at 1 Piața Castelului in the historic town center of Mediaș (Mediasch), Sibiu County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. The present, late Gothic structure was built between 1437 and 1488 by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. Consecrated as a Roman Catholic church, with St Margaret of Antioch as its patron saint, it became Lutheran following the Reformation. (en)
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| - Die Margarethenkirche ist die Stadtpfarrkirche der Evangelischen Kirche A.B. in Mediaș im heutigen Rumänien, deren schiefer Hauptturm, der Trompeterturm oder Tramiter, auch heute noch das Stadtbild beherrscht. Die Kirche gehört zu den bedeutendsten spätgotischen Kirchenburgen der Siebenbürger Sachsen, von denen einige heute zum UNESCO-Welterbe zählen. (de)
- St. Margaret's Church (Romanian: Biserica Sfânta Margareta; German: Margarethenkirche) is a Lutheran church, located at 1 Piața Castelului in the historic town center of Mediaș (Mediasch), Sibiu County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. The present, late Gothic structure was built between 1437 and 1488 by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. Consecrated as a Roman Catholic church, with St Margaret of Antioch as its patron saint, it became Lutheran following the Reformation. St. Margaret's church is located at the center of a large church fortress. About 150 of these buildings still exist in Transylvania. Seven of these villages with fortified churches are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It is listed as a historic monument by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs. (en)
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