Monasteries
CârţaAn early church in the Cistercian Gothic style similar to Burgundian Cistercian churches in France, Walkenried Monastery in the Harz Mountains, Gran Cathedral and the church of Pannonhalma in Hungary. Built according to the rules of the Cistercians, it impresses with its early Gothic style, its dimensions, the pointed arch windows and the six-paned windows. To the south of the church stand the ruins of the abbey building of the former 13th century monastery. Remains of cross-ribbed vaults, brackets, windows and pilasters dividing the wall can still be seen on the old walls. The monastery in Carta was also fortified like the fortified churches and had a surrounding wall, of which, however, no remains have been preserved.
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Monasteries
CârţaAn early church in the Cistercian Gothic style similar to Burgundian Cistercian churches in France, Walkenried Monastery in the Harz Mountains, Gran Cathedral and the church of Pannonhalma in Hungary. Built according to the rules of the Cistercians, it impresses with its early Gothic style, its dimensions, the pointed arch windows and the six-paned windows. To the south of the church stand the ruins of the abbey building of the former 13th century monastery. Remains of cross-ribbed vaults, brackets, windows and pilasters dividing the wall can still be seen on the old walls. The monastery in Carta was also fortified like the fortified churches and had a surrounding wall, of which, however, no remains have been preserved.
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The west portal has a capital frieze with foliage decoration. The four-fold stepped robe has pear, octagonal and round bar profiles between coves, in which remains of wall painting are preserved. Above the portal gable is a large wheel window whose tracery has disappeared.
An altar from the 18th century, restored in 1751, stands on a stone table from the second half of the 13th century. The burial, the Last Supper and the birth of Jesus are depicted in the predella. The central image is a Crucifixion flanked by sculptures depicting Peter and Paul between two pillars. Two angel figures stand on the architrave, between them a painting: Christ in Gethsemane, above a wooden sculpture of the Risen One. Baroque veil boards complete the overall picture.
South of the church are the ruins of the 13th-century abbey building. The wall facing the courtyard from the eastern wing of the monastery has been preserved. On the walls of the east wing there are remains of ribbed vaults, consoles, windows and pilaster strips that divide the wall. In the second half of the 15th century until 1506, repair work is carried out on the monastery buildings. There was an enclosing wall around the monastery and the church, but no remains have been preserved.
| 1200 - 1300 | Construction of a three-aisled towerless basilica in the Cistercian Gothic style with a central nave, low side aisles, transept and choir. |
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| 1202 | The monastery is founded from a Cistercian abbey from Banat |
| 1223 | The clergyman Magister Gocelinus donates the mountain of St. Michael together with the church and the village of Cisnădioara south of Sibiu to the Cârţa monastery. The donation is confirmed by King Andreas II. This is the first written mention of Cârţa. |
| 1241 | The monastery is destroyed by the Mongols. |
| 1343 | The Archbishop of Esztergom, near Budapest, takes the monastery of Cârța under his special protection, on the basis of a papal mandate. He claims that the monastery has been completely destroyed by "schismatic Romanians" and stripped of its possessions. |
| 1356 | 13 monks live in Cârţa |
| 1398 | King and later Emperor Sigismund visits the Cârţa monastery. |
| 1421 | Turks destroy the Cârţa Abbey and the monastery church. |
| 1439 | Abbot Michael resigns his office and justifies this decision with his old age and the attacks to which the monastery is exposed by the Turks and Romanians. |
| 1474 | King Matthias decrees the dissolution of the abbey. The entire property of the monastery goes to the Sibiu parish church. The abbey income is to be used to pay for the construction work on the Sibiu and Cârţa church. |
| 1602 | The imperial general Basta is camped with his troops near Cârţa. |
| 1803 | A court decision emphasizes that the residents of Cârţa are subjects of Sibiu. |
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