ROUTES: Economic

3.3 km, 1 h

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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...
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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...
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THE GOLDSMITHS’ HOUSE

The house was built at the beginning of the 15th century by the guild of the goldsmiths and is one of the guild houses which existed in the Small Square. As the wall of the second circle did not...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE TOWN HALL

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...
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HOTEL EMPEROR OF THE ROMANS

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...
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THE FLOASU HOUSE

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...
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THE HOCHMEISTER HOUSE

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...
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FILEK HOUSE

The building was made in 1802, on the site of a building which was the governor’s residence. In the old main hall the meetings of the diet took place. When the governor moved to Cluj Napoca, the...
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THE IRON COURTYARD

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...
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THE POST OFFICE

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...
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ALBINA BANK

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...
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THE WHITE LAMB INN

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...
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THE FACTORY HERMA

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...

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