Fortified Churches
BodThe church, whose oldest part is the bell tower, stands east of the main street. The belfry was built together with a Romanesque basilica in the 13th century. There are fragments of the round arch west portal on the ground floor. The tower collapsed in 1790 and was then rebuilt. The church was completely destroyed during an earthquake in 1802. The new church was built in 1804-1806. Only the 1491-dated Gothic font has been preserved of the medieval church. The simple hall with stuccoed ceiling has galleries on three sides. The northwest tower and the adjoining section of the defence wall were demolished in 1865
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Fortified Churches
BodThe church, whose oldest part is the bell tower, stands east of the main street. The belfry was built together with a Romanesque basilica in the 13th century. There are fragments of the round arch west portal on the ground floor. The tower collapsed in 1790 and was then rebuilt. The church was completely destroyed during an earthquake in 1802. The new church was built in 1804-1806. Only the 1491-dated Gothic font has been preserved of the medieval church. The simple hall with stuccoed ceiling has galleries on three sides. The northwest tower and the adjoining section of the defence wall were demolished in 1865
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The altar was made in 1869. It is connected with the organ. The main painting by Carl Dörschlag shows the Savior with an angel. It is flanked by classicist columns.
Above the altar the new organ is built by Johann Thois / Râșnov in 1816. The organ has 2 manuals, pedal and 18 stops.
In the choir there is a stone, chalice-shaped, massive baptismal font on which the year 1491 is carved in large numerals.
The ring wall is almost completely destroyed by the earthquake in 1802. The church was surrounded by a polygonal ring wall, which was reinforced by several towers. There was still a kennel wall, which also had towers. Except for a small part of the eastern wall, the ring wall was demolished in 1865. On this occasion, a tower is also demolished, in which there was a chapel room with wall paintings.
| 1200-1300 | Construction of a Romanesque basilica with a bell tower, of which only the remains of the round-arched west portal have survived. |
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| 1368 | Count Jakob de Bod "comes Jakobus de Bathfalua", receives a diploma from the district of Brasov. This is the first documentary mention of Bod, which also proves that the village was a free commune of the district of Brasov. |
| 1396 | Dispute between the count's family and the village over the construction of a mill. The trial before the Szekler count is decided in favor of the counts. The elders of Bod, "seniores villae Bringingdorf", are sentenced to a heavy fine. |
| 1422 | The king released the depopulated Brasov region communities from paying Martin's interest for a further ten years. |
| 1457 | Bod is said to have been destroyed during a retaliatory campaign by Vlad Ţepeş against the Brasov Region. |
| 1510 | In Bod live 112 families, 7 widows, 6 shepherds, one miller, one settler. There is a school house, a bell ringer's house and a church house. |
| 1611 | In the clash between Prince Gabriel Báthori and the Wallachian voivode Radu Şerban, Bod is burned down by the voivode's troops. |
| 1658 | An army of Turks, Tartars, Vlachs, Moldovans and Cossacks invades the Brasov region and burns 7 villages, including Bod. |
| 1718-1719 | Plague epidemic that killed 448 people. |
| 1790 | Great earthquake in which the church tower collapses and buries the family of the castle keeper under the rubble. All the bells are smashed. |
| 1802 | The church is completely destroyed by the earthquake. Soon afterwards it will be completely removed. The organ, pulpit and all furnishings were buried in the rubble, and 90 houses and many other buildings were destroyed. |
| 1804 | Construction of the new church, which was inaugurated in 1806. |
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