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Transylvania / Romania

Fortification

Fortification
Biserică luterană din Orăștie 2
Levente Nuber, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
town fortification
Current function:
ruin
Address:
Strada Cetății
Historical Hungarian county:
Hunyad
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.8366554613, 23.1958254973
Google map:

History

In fact, the castle is made up of the Reformed and Lutheran churches, surrounded by a common defensive wall with three bastions and three corner towers.

The defensive walls were built in the first half of the 14th century. To the east of the two churches, the foundation walls of an 11th century circular chapel were excavated in the 1990s. For the time being, the castle gates are only opened for religious services.

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