| 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.... |
