Fortified Churches
BatoșThe present-day church, with a uniformly Baroque character of the hall, was built on the foundation walls of a 14th century Gothic church. The cross-ribbed-vaulted choir has a flat, polygonal apse. The outer walls of the choir and of the hall are buttressed. There are gemel windows with Gothic tracery in the choir. A sedile in the south wall and pointed arch portals in the outer walls of the hall illustrate the Gothic construction phase. At present, flat transverse ribs, on the north-south and east-west directions, standing on four pairs of pillars support the sail vault of the church hall. There are galleries supported by brick-built round arches on three sides of the church hall. A high bell tower built in front of the enclosing wall stands south of the church.
Fortified Churches
BatoșThe present-day church, with a uniformly Baroque character of the hall, was built on the foundation walls of a 14th century Gothic church. The cross-ribbed-vaulted choir has a flat, polygonal apse. The outer walls of the choir and of the hall are buttressed. There are gemel windows with Gothic tracery in the choir. A sedile in the south wall and pointed arch portals in the outer walls of the hall illustrate the Gothic construction phase. At present, flat transverse ribs, on the north-south and east-west directions, standing on four pairs of pillars support the sail vault of the church hall. There are galleries supported by brick-built round arches on three sides of the church hall. A high bell tower built in front of the enclosing wall stands south of the church.
The neo-Gothic altar was installed in 1864. Supplemented with ornamentation and owing to natural lighting, the richly stucco-decorated church space produces a homogeneous, yet interesting impression.
Above the brick pulpit base rises the brick parapet with Baroque ornamentation. The canopy is a two-part tower-like structure with rich wooden architecture, crowned by an eye of God. On the bottom of the canopy is the date 1774.
An organ consisting of two manuals, pedal and 17 stops comes from the workshop of Karl Einschenk/Brasov and was installed in 1902. The prospect has neo-Gothic decoration.
On the side walls of the central nave, in front of the arches leading to the aisles, there are painted panels on the parapet of the pews. The thirty panels from around 1700 symbolically depict the seasons and months as well as biblical scenes.
The choir is covered with a ribbed vault, the keystones of which have a rosette and a circle with foliage. The ribs have pear-bar profile. The triumphal arch has a pointed arch shape. Towards the sacristy a Gothic door frame is preserved. On the choir windows there are remains of Gothic tracery. The two-part windows, whose central columns are preserved, have trefoil pointed arches in the upper part with a rosette above. On the north wall of the choir there is a sacramental niche from the late Gothic period with a round-arched end and rich profiling consisting of round bars, rectangular bars and coving. A two-part Gothic seating niche with a rudimentary ribbed vault is built into the south wall of the chancel. The round-arched west portal is articulated with coving and round bars. The north entrance has a pointed arch.
The church is surrounded by a simple polygonal stone wall; A stone tablet with an inscription and the year 1636 is placed in a niche.
The bell tower protruding in front of the church's enclosing wall is located 15 m south-east of the church. On the west side of the tower there is a stone tablet with a Latin inscription, on which the year 1638 used to be read. The three bells are from the 20th century.
| 1228 | First documented mention of the place "terra Radus", misspelling of "Badus". |
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| 1300-1400 | Significant parts of the present church originate from a Gothic church whose first construction phase can probably be dated to the 14th century. |
| 1507 | Batoș is called marketplace "Oppidum". |
| 1728 | The church is "completely ruined" by a major fire. |
| 1733 | Burning of witches in Batoș. |
| 1775 | Due to the overpopulation of the community, residents of Batoș move 30 km north to Satu nou. |
| 1781 | It can be assumed that the Baroque reconstruction of the church took place in 1781. |
| 1972 | The vaults of the nave have been secured by a construction over the belt arches. |
| 1998-99 | Repair and painting work has been carried out at the request of the German-based Association of Batos Villagers. |
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