cetatea aiudului

    City ​​Aiud
                                                                                        

Located in downtown, right national highway Bucharest - Oradea, about 30 km from the town of Alba Iulia and about 36 km from Turda, City Aiud - medieval architectural complex comprising several buildings - is the most important goal tourism within the settlement.City walls and towers of stone is placed on the floor instead of old fortifications which in turn overlaps a Dacian settlement - the third century Roman - century AD. The building complex architecture are known two phases of construction. Having a fortress is mentioned first archaeological excavations in the years 1974 - 1977, in the fourteenth century - century. According to local tradition the Saxon beginnings would have been great before the Tatar invasion in the years 1241 to 1242. This dating but not yet confirmed.The city is shaped like a horizontal pentagon with unequal sides.At the meeting angles of the walls and the middle of their long sides, the role of braking towers are four, five and seven sides.Current form largely meets the second phase of construction, but sometimes preserves elements of the first phase, as well as of some later additions and restorations. The inscriptions which have kept the towers and walls sometimes get some information about those works.Although small (the perimeter of about 350 m), the thickness enclosure (from 1.20 to 1.30 m) and height walls (from 7 to 8 m) plus the brick parapet (2 m), city ​​was a reliable means of defense in troubled times for the people Aiud. Defense was enhanced and the moat surrounding the city outside. Towers was under careful craft guilds, which had military obligations, the guild masters choosing military commanders - so-called "guild officers."And today the city of towers speaking butchers (1) Tailors (2), shoemakers (3) and potters (6) - rectangular shape, the Tanners (5) - with seven sides, like those of furriers (4) and mechanics (8) - with five sides. On the west side there is another small tower called "Kalendas" (7) which was in the care of Holy Spirit Association. Close connection between the towers was provided behind the parapet watch road, which climbs through wooden stairs profiles supported by stone walls caught the curtains. Inside the tower access to higher levels is made by wooden stairs. (If you put the numbers you need to map, city plan drawn)Inside the fortress is located two buildings of worship and four buildings in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the latter belonging now reformed Calvinist religion. The most important building is the church built in gothic Transylvania at the end of the fifteenth century - now belongs lea.În reformed Calvinist religion.The church has a sturdy tower, 64 meters high and provided with battlements. Other church dates from the late nineteenth - century and belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran religion. The church was built on the old chapel in the romantic style of the first half of the fourteenth century - century, during the creation of the new building plan and keeping the foundation of the first building of the city.Fortified compound has close links with the city's history that took place over several centuries. The fortress was directly involved or witnessed some of the important social and political events in the history of Transylvania. Generally these events left their mark on this medieval monument, just the consequences that generated them: rebuilding or repairs that have not been repeated during most respected style, but has worked in the style of the new period. From this result and the peculiarities of this monument were the medieval Transylvanian architecture.Inside the fortress is also located the following buildings, properties of the Calvinist Reformed Parish Office:· Parish office building attached western half of Prince's Palace, whose northern half wing retains elements of stone masonry and frame carved in stone waste, which allow dating to the eighteenth century, the south wing is a new design (sec. XVIII - XIX).· Parish building, used as the parish priest dwelling service.Contains constructive elements of the eighteenth century and nineteenth century, although supposedly a remake of old buildings.· The former house of bell. Is attached to the wall perpendicular to the western wall of the city, near the tower potters. Sounds like a building from the XVIII - XIX, and later rebuilt.· Former parsonage Evangelical Reformed Parish Office purchased, now renovated.