Fortified Churches
FelmerThe fortified church stands on the village green in the centre of the community. Only the ribbed-vaulted choir with semicircular apse has been preserved of the 13th century Romanesque basilica. The adjacent, equally wide church hall has a sail vault supported by pilasters and cross springers. Like the vaults in the hall, the galleries are supported by wooden columns and were built around 1800. The dilapidated church is no longer usable at present. Part of the inner decoration was evacuated, such as the 1780 organ, which stands today in the Lutheran Church in Făgăraş. Of the initial altar, only the Baroque frame of the central picture and the lateral galleries are left. Two towers and some fragments of the medieval defence wall to the north and to the east of the church are still extant.
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Fortified Churches
FelmerThe fortified church stands on the village green in the centre of the community. Only the ribbed-vaulted choir with semicircular apse has been preserved of the 13th century Romanesque basilica. The adjacent, equally wide church hall has a sail vault supported by pilasters and cross springers. Like the vaults in the hall, the galleries are supported by wooden columns and were built around 1800. The dilapidated church is no longer usable at present. Part of the inner decoration was evacuated, such as the 1780 organ, which stands today in the Lutheran Church in Făgăraş. Of the initial altar, only the Baroque frame of the central picture and the lateral galleries are left. Two towers and some fragments of the medieval defence wall to the north and to the east of the church are still extant.
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The classicist altar dates from the 19th century. The main image represents the praying Savior and a large angel and is decorated by Corinthian columns, wooden arches, crowns and vases.
The organ was placed above the altar. The organ, built in 1780, is the work of Johannes Prause (Brasov). Today it is in Făgăraș.
Around the church, in the 15th century, a polygonal ring is built, preserved in the north and east, reinforced by three fortification towers with pyramid roofs. The present bell tower is added to the church in 1795.
| 1200-1300 | Construction of a three-aisled Romanesque basilica, of which the east apse and the chancel square have been preserved. The choir vault is supported by blinded columns. |
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| 1206 | First documented mention as "villa Weimer". |
| 1400-1500 | A polygonal ring is built around the church, preserved to the north and east, reinforced by three fortification towers with pyramidal roofs. |
| 1455 | The council of the city of Sighisoara writes to the Sibiu council that the honorable man "Stephanus Pylgrem dictus de Felmer" has been innocently robbed of his goods by the Rupea king's judge Jakob Creb. The Sibiu council is asked to take care of the injured party. |
| 1494 | Felmer received the amount of 8 guilders from the treasury of the city and province of Sibiu, which was definitely intended for construction work on the church. |
| 1500 | The church is fortified. A brick fortified storey was erected above the chancel. The choir walls are reinforced inwards. |
| 1532 | Felmer has 21 houses. |
| 1534 | The Transylvanian voivode and bishop Emerich Czibak is killed by partisans Ludovicus Grittis in the vicarage of Felmer. |
| 1658 | The place is mostly destroyed by Turks. |
| 1848 | 112 Saxons and 58 Romanians and Roma die of cholera. |
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