| 1 |  | The medieval builders and those who thought and built the town of Sibiu faced the problem of a too long time between the moment when the soldier citizens got out of their houses and the moment... |
| 2 |  | When the importance of the role of the earl diminished in the 13th century the parish church of Sibiu is situated in the Huet Square having the Virgin Mary as titular saint. It is a Romanic style... |
| 3 |  | Georg Daniel Teusch, born in 1817, died on the 3rd of July 1893, was one of the remarkable personalities of the Sibiu society, one of those who militated in favor of maintaining the entity of the... |
| 4 |  | The medieval European guilds had also workers who learnt to become master stonemasons or butchers or something else. These were the journeymen, the helpers of the members of the guild. In medieval... |
| 5 |  | It is the oldest still standing building in Sibiu today, the gate of the first fortification circle of Sibiu. The historians claim a first form of fortification existed in this place already in... |
| 6 |  | The house is one of the most representative buildings in the period between the Gothic style and the Renaissance. The building is placed on the old foundation of a wooden house which probably... |
| 7 |  | The legend, the history and the archeology indicate the existence of three chapels in the medieval period which were around the parish church with the aim to ensure the necessary places of worship... |
| 8 |  | On the site of the present day Bridge of Lies until the midst of the 19th century there was a row of houses which divided the Small Square in two. Below this row of houses there was a curved... |
| 9 |  | The Baroque building of today was built on the place of the wooden and then stone fortifications which encircled the first circle of Sibiu. The archeological research discovered in the basements... |
| 10 |  | Before the stone house there was a wooden buiding here which had an economic role in the structure of the local guilds. The differentiation from the alignment of the rest of the houses is related... |
| 11 |  | Where today one goes through the Goldsmiths’ Passage towards the stairs with the same name and then towards the square with the same name there was in the 13th century a gate which linked the... |
| 12 |  | When the fortification wall lost its fortification role in the 15th century, when the entire Lower Town of Sibiu was fortified, and the walls of the second circle did not have a protection role,... |
| 13 |  | Its history mingles with the one of the town. Its name has its origin in its vicinity with the town hall of the town when it was an acces gate.
The gate was built in the second half of the 13th... |
| 14 |  | The medieval building which existed on this spot belonged in turn to the Saxon Counts Johann Lulay, Valentin Franck von Franckenstein, Johann Sachs von Harteneck.
The present day house got the... |
| 15 |  | The comming of the Habsburgs in Transylvania meant the forced coming
back of Catholicism. The fact that Sibiu was the capital of
Transylvania and the administration was brought here brought also... |
| 16 |  | The local administration tried to make the Catholic actions difficult but the energy shown by Joseph Berdia, the first superior of the Jesuits in Sibiu, had as a result that the Jesuit monks had... |
| 17 |  | The name comes from the multiple noble ownership of the house. First the house belonged to the Weidner family, then to the Reussner family. After Johann Reussner jr. the house belonged to Samuel... |
| 18 |  | The house which is today called the Lutsch House is not the initial Lutsch House, the actual Lutsch House was demolished in the 19th century when the new house was built.
The old house was built... |
| 19 |  | In 1470 a first owner was mentioned, the Senator Hyeronimus Schneider. In 1500 the owner was the mayor Johann Agotha. In 1537 the house was owned by Petrus Haller, the mayor of the town but also a... |
| 20 |  | One of the most important houses of this square has the name of Georg Hecht. If we take a walk in the Main Square it is very easy to notice that on two sides there are mostly houses of nobles and... |
| 21 |  | The coming of a great number of Habsburg soldiers posed a serious problem for the Magistrate of Sibiu. Moreover this problem is amplified when workers and more soldiers were brought to help in the... |
| 22 |  | The marriage of Samuel von Brukenthal with Sofia Klockner brought him as a inheritance the houses of her family, among them the house in the Main Square. His main palace was built on two parcels.... |
| 23 |  | On the spot of the present day building in the medieval period there were two parcels belonging to the families Lutsch and Vette, who came from Gdansk, Poland. Georg Vette bought also the nearby... |
| 24 |  | The building which is placed on the spot of a former medieval house which divided the two main squares was the office of the Ground Credit Bank (Bodenkreditstall Bank), one of the most important... |
| 25 |  | This hotel is most surely the oldest hotel of Romania. It was mentioned for the first time in 1544, when there was an inn important for our town situated on the road which came from Wallachia.
In... |
| 26 |  | This building is the main office where there was the Guiding Council, the parallel govern of Transylvania which had the role of unification with Romania in 1918 of the historic province... |
| 27 |  | The house was built by the Seiverth family around 1900. After the First World War the house was bought by Ilie Floasu who opened in 1920 the biggest Romanian shop in Transylvania. The communists... |
| 28 |  | The house was built by one of the nephews of the Baron Samuel von Brukenthal between the years 1786 – 1790. The building is part of the Brukenthal complex and is one of the emblem buildings of... |
| 29 |  | In the 14th century Sibiu became a town (it was first mentioned as such in 1366). This transformation of the town led to the necessity of the extension of the fortified area, the town was desired... |
| 30 |  | In the 19th century the administration of the town of Sibiu completed a complex redimensioning program. The old fortifications of the medieval citadel were not efficient anymore and their removal... |
| 31 |  | At the middle of the 18th century in 1752 in Sibiu theater was already performed on a wooden stage in the Central Square. Only in 1787 the magistrate of the town offered through his representative... |
| 32 |  | Gustav Nussbacher, manufacturer of cold meats in Sibiu, the one who was the predecessor of the present day brand „Scandia” donated this statue to the community in 1905. The statue was placed... |
| 33 |  | The house was built by Martin Hochmeister, the owner of the first theater on the today’s territory of Romania and editor of the first magazines in our country as the almanac of Sibiu in... |
| 34 |  | Crucifixul din interior a fost realizat de Peter Lantregren în 1417. Îl reprezintă pe Iisus suferind pe cruce. Acest crucifix a fost pierdut pentru secole, fiind regăsit în secolul al... |
| 35 |  | The Jewish Community of Sibiu was a small one but had a considerable financial force so that they managed to build a temple inside the medieval citadel on the North-Eastern side in the vicinity of... |
| 36 |  | The Magistrate considered very seriously the problem of the defense of the town in the era of fire weapons and a first solution was the construction of a fire tower in front of the most vulnerable... |
| 37 |  | In the 14th century Sibiu became a town (it was first mentioned as such in 1366). This transformation of the town led to the necessity of the extension of the fortified area, the town was desired... |
| 38 |  | Around the year 1425 in the Upper Town the Clarissa nuns, the feminine rite of the Franciscans dedicated to Saint Clara, settled in the town of Sibiu. They built the first monastery in this part... |
| 39 |  | The name of the church has its origin in the order of the Ursuline nuns. At the beginning of the 18th century these began administering the site. The church had been built three centuries earlier... |
| 40 |  | The house was one of the oldest houses preserved in the citadel of Sibiu. It is built in the 14th century on the Orezului Street, as Avram Iancu Street was named then. It was a noble house built... |
| 41 |  | The building is constructed at the end of the 18th century. It is considered to be representative for the Patrician buildings made in that time. The building which existed on this place belonged... |
| 42 |  | Where today there is this hous there was the first town hall of the town. It was mentioned for the first time in 1324. The town hall functioned until 1494 when it was moved to another building in... |
| 43 |  | The frequent attacks of the Ottoman armies in the 15th century caused Sibiu to fortify also the most populated part of the town, the old village limits, i.e. the Lower Town. This transformation of... |
| 44 |  | The name of the Goldsmiths’ Square has its origin in the vicinity of the Goldsmiths’ House in the Small Square. The market was born locally at the crossroads of a medieval road which linked... |
| 45 |  | The house was built on the spot of a wooden house in the area of within the town limits. The construction was made in the 15th century. The house was built with the aim to be an inn with the name... |
| 46 |  | It is one of the few buildings which was built after the unification of Transylvania with Romania. In 1921 the shoe factory Herma was built, the financing was obtained by Banca Românească/the... |
| 47 |  | The church of the asylum could be the first parish church of Sibiu. It is for sure that the church existed before all the others around. It seems that it was the first stone building in the area... |
| 48 |  | In the 14th century Sibiu became a town (it was first mentioned as such in 1366). This transformation of the town led to the necessity of the extension of the fortified area, the town was desired... |
| 49 |  | In the 14th century Sibiu became a town (it was first mentioned as such in 1366). This transformation of the town led to the necessity of the extension of the fortified area, the town was desired... |
| 50 |  | In 1896 the building of the vocational school, the present day Art High-School, was inaugurated. The architect of this building was Karl Heinrich Eder, the one who brought an innovation in the... |
| 51 |  | It is in the vicinity of Altemberger house, the former town hall, the present day history museum. This gate was one of the most important gates and linked the town to the roads coming from Alba... |
| 52 |  | Where today the Altemberger House stands there was a Neolithic settlement of the Cotofeni culture. A part of the scholars consider that there was a Dacian fortification here but afterwards until... |
| 53 |  | The edict for concivility of the final of the 18th century did not bring inside the citadel and generally in the active life of the town only Hungarians of Roman-Catholic rite but also many of... |
| 54 |  | The house is related to the name of Sebastian Hann who lived in the former building which existed on this site and belonged to this one. He came from Southern Slovakia, settled in 1674 in Sibiu.... |
| 55 |  | The second half of the 19th century is marked by an explosion of the credit institutions. In 1872 the Credit and Savings Institute “Albina” was established. Among the founders there were... |
| 56 |  | When the Habsburg administration was implemented this improved the entire infrastructure of the Province. The generals of the imperial army in Transylvania as well as the Count Steinville and the... |
| 57 |  | When the influence of the businessmen, clergy and intellectuals of Romanian origin and Orthodox rite grew, they understood the need to build an imposing church which was equally important to the... |
| 58 |  | In the year 1829, the provost of the village Neppendorf (today’s Turnişor quarter), Johann Engelleiter, leaves his entire fortune by testament to the Evangelical community of Sibiu for the... |
| 59 |  | In 1756 the Magistrate of Sibiu drew up a bylaw of an institution to host the orphans of evangelical reformed rite. The problem which this new institution would pose constantly was the building of... |
| 60 |  | The area were the ASTRA Park and Palace were built is an old trenchment between the ramparts between the 3rd circle and 5th circle of Sibiu.
The establishment of the ASTRA Association in 1861... |
| 61 |  | George Baritiu (1812-1893) was one of the most important characters of the Revolution of 1848 in Transylvania. He was the one who started the Romanian journalism in Transylvania, he initiated and... |
| 62 |  | The Saint Elisabeth Church and the catholic orphanage built outside the medieval stronghold are the nucleus which led to the appearance of the first district outside the walls, Terezian. The... |
| 63 |  | The statue was inaugurated on the 27th of June 1909, and was placed in front of the Roman-Catholic orphanage which the empress patronized and whose name it bore. The wish of the inhabitants was to... |
| 64 |  | In 1761 Maria Theresa accepted the appointment of a deputy of an orthodox bishop, the Serb priest Dionisie Novacovic. He tried to move his office inside the citadel of Sibiu.
Here the Gubernat... |
| 65 |  | The Leopoldine diplomas issued at the beginning of the century developed a strong Greek Catholic community which until the legal confirmation of the Orthodox Church in Transylvania was the... |
| 66 |  | At the end of the 19th century the elite of Sibiu thought of creating an association with the aim of arranging the dirty or old spaces of the town, the finality was the modernization and... |
| 67 |  | Biserica din Groapă cu hramul „Buna Vestire” a fost construită în 1789 de către Petru Luca și soția sa Stana Petru Luca (devenită între timp soția lui Hagi Popp) şi refacută... |
