Fortified Churches
CaţaA three-aisled Romanesque pier basilica with bell tower is built in the 13th century. Three round arches with ledged arch imposts separate the nave from the aisles. The chancel arch displays plain cornices at the impost level. The clerestory has Romanesque gemel windows. The choir got a cross vault with plain-moulded ribs and the Romanesque flat ceiling in the nave was replaced with a Gothic cross vault. The church tower collapsed in 1894, and the vaulting of nave was destroyed along with it. The west façade was rebuilt, the nave got a flat stuccoed ceiling and galleries were installed on three sides of the nave. The oval inner enclosing wall with slightly bent sides has considerably thick walls and is up to 8m high. It was strengthened by four towers built in front of the wall, of which only three are still standing today.
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Fortified Churches
CaţaA three-aisled Romanesque pier basilica with bell tower is built in the 13th century. Three round arches with ledged arch imposts separate the nave from the aisles. The chancel arch displays plain cornices at the impost level. The clerestory has Romanesque gemel windows. The choir got a cross vault with plain-moulded ribs and the Romanesque flat ceiling in the nave was replaced with a Gothic cross vault. The church tower collapsed in 1894, and the vaulting of nave was destroyed along with it. The west façade was rebuilt, the nave got a flat stuccoed ceiling and galleries were installed on three sides of the nave. The oval inner enclosing wall with slightly bent sides has considerably thick walls and is up to 8m high. It was strengthened by four towers built in front of the wall, of which only three are still standing today.
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The classicistic altar, a work by Michael Wolf from Schässburg, was erected in 1813, above it stands the organ by Andreas Eitel, Kronstadt, which was replaced in 1931 by a new organ by the Wegenstein company, Temeschburg.
In the course of renovation work in 1969, two Romanesque twin windows were uncovered in the northern clerestory.
The parish tower, which has a battlement and a pyramid roof, was built in 1677 in the south-east corner of the outer ring wall. It has a pentagonal plan and was built as a residential tower. Three of the four floors could be heated. The tower has a blue, white and red molding decoration. German and Latin teaching texts are located in three niches.
The inner ring of the fortifications with four towers was built on older foundations in the 15th century. It forms an irregular oval. The wall is about 8 m high. The four-storey west tower above the old entrance has a wooden battlement. To the north, a four-storey tower is also placed in front of the wall of the inner ring. This also has an open battlement on hanging trestles and is equipped with loopholes and a pyramid roof. Around 1500 a tower is built in the northeast, the top floor of which rests on stone consoles. He has bad luck and loopholes. A second ring is built in the 17th century in the south of the fortified church. It is reinforced by two towers.
| 1200-1300 | Construction of a three-nave Romanesque pillar basilica with a bell tower over the western part of the central nave. |
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| 1400 | First documented mention of the place in a register of interest payments. |
| 1400-1500 | The church is fortified. |
| 1453 | Cața is a free village in the Sibiu Province. |
| 1500 | In the village live 92 families, 5 shepherds and 2 poor people live. |
| 1600-1700 | A second ring wall is built in the south of the fortified church. It is reinforced by two towers. |
| 1640 | In the village live 171 families and 39 settlers. |
| 1658 | Tatars and Turks burn down the village. |
| 1684 | Warbands returning from the siege of Vienna plunder the fortified church and steal 337 horses. |
| 1706 | The village, including the church, school and vicarage, burns down completely. |
| 1711 | Installation of a wooden gallery. |
| 1795 | The elderly of Cața adopt new regulations on the costume. |
| 1819 | New dress code. |
| 1847 | Once again, the village adopts a new dress code. |
| 1884 | The north tower of the outer ring wall along with the north-eastern side of the wall are demolished for the construction of a new school. |
| 1894 | The church tower collapses. The nave vaults are destroyed, as well as the side aisles and the west portal. |
| 1931 | Construction of a new organ by the Wegenstein company (Temesvar). |
| 1936-1937 | A section of the ring wall is removed to build the evangelical community center. |
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