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1		THE PASSAGE OF THE SHOEMAKERS 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		THE EVANGELICAL CATHEDRAL 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		THE STATUE OF GEORG DANIEL TEUTSCH 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		JOURNEYMENS’ HOUSE 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		THE TOWER OF THE STAIRS 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 PARISH HOUSE 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 CHAPEL OF SAINT STEPHEN 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		THE BRIDGE OF LIES 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 LUXEMBURG HOUSE 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		THE HOUSE OF ARTS 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		THE GATE OF THE GOLDSMITHS’ STAIRS AND THE GOLDSMITHS’ STAIRS 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		PHARMACY MUSEUM 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		THE COUNCIL TOWER 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		HERMES HOUSE 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 ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 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 JESUITE MONASTERY 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 WEIDNER - REUSSNER – CZEKELIUS HOUSE 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 LUTSCH HOUSE 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		THE HALLER HOUSE 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		THE HECHT HOUSE 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 HOUSE OF THE GENERAL 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 BRUKENTHAL PALACE 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		THE BLUE HOUSE 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...

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