Fortified Church
ŞomartinThe village, with its irregular network of alleys, is situated on a hill on which a three-nave Romanesque basilica with a west tower was built, dedicated to St. Martin in the 13th century. The entrance to the church hall is through a plain west portal with semicircular archivolt and round-arched piers. The nave is spanned by a cross-ribbed vault supported by transoms and pilasters. Around 1500, a sacristy was built to the south of the chancel. In the 18th century, the aisles were raised and the brick galleries were installed.
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Fortified Church
ŞomartinThe village, with its irregular network of alleys, is situated on a hill on which a three-nave Romanesque basilica with a west tower was built, dedicated to St. Martin in the 13th century. The entrance to the church hall is through a plain west portal with semicircular archivolt and round-arched piers. The nave is spanned by a cross-ribbed vault supported by transoms and pilasters. Around 1500, a sacristy was built to the south of the chancel. In the 18th century, the aisles were raised and the brick galleries were installed.
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The central image of the baroque altar is a Last Supper scene by the Sibiu painter Johann Martin Stock and is dated 1730. To the side of the central picture are two Corinthian columns, above them a pediment with the eye of God, and a crucifix as the upper end. The altar closes at the side with baroque tendrils.
The organ was built in 1811 by Samuel Mätz. It has a baroque-classical case, 2 manuals and 16 registers. The organ was brought to the city church in Sibiu.
The Şomartin church was surrounded by a rectangular ring, the ground plan of which can be determined from sketches in the land register.
| 1200 - 1300 | Construction of a three-nave basilica with a western tower. The best-preserved part of the Romanesque church is the west front with the west portal and tower. |
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| 1307 | "Martonhegy" or Şomartin is mentioned for the first time in a document concerning the territorial division of the neighboring village. |
| 1332-1335 | "Johannes de Monte Martini" is mentioned among the priests of the Sibiu provost. |
| 1450 - 1500 | In the course of the fortification of the church at the end of the 15th century, a fortified storey was built above the choir, which rested on circular segment arches above the buttresses. In the course of construction work around 1500, a six-story west tower was erected in the south of the chancel, made of river and quarry stone masonry. |
| 1500 | In Somartin live 16 families, a shepherd and a teacher. "Mertesberg" is a free commune in the seat of Cincu. |
| 1520 | Şomartin receives support from the treasury of the Sibiu Province for the fortification of the church. |
| 1532 | Şomartin is inhabited by 34 families |
| 1700 | Parts of Şomartin were pledged to the Voivode Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia. |
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