The Church On The Hill - Sighișoara

It is the most valuable architectural monument of Sighisoara, one of the representative buildings of the Gothic style in our country. St. Nicholas Evangelical Church is located on the small plateau on the top of the hill in the area of a fortification built by the Szeklers in the 12th-13th century. The present building is a hall church with three naves, a massive west tower included in the collateral and partially covered by the massive gable roof of the hall, an elongated double-beamed choir with a polygonal apse, superimposed on the Romanesque crypt, a two-storey sacristy on the south side, a portico at the south entrance, rich in Gothic sculpture (portals, windows, statues) and exterior and interior murals as well as pieces of Renaissance furniture. Between the 13th and early 16th centuries, the Hill Church was transformed. Work on the church was completed around 1523. The main attractions in this church are the stone-worked tabernacle and pulpit dating from the 15th century. The altars of the hill church are dedicated to St. Nicholas, St. Ursula. The church was restored between 1993-2001 on the initiative of the Messerschmitt Foundation Munich, and in 2004 the church received the "Europa Nostra" award for good restoration. The Church on the Hill will be used as a liturgical museum, made up of objects of worship from evangelical churches in villages where the Saxon community no longer exists.