Fortified church Feldioara

The main settlement of the Teutonic Order was founded and prospered at the beginning of the 13th century. The church stands east of a wide street. A three-aisled Romanesque basilica with bell tower was built in the 13th century. Arcades with five low round arches separate the nave from the aisles. There is a second register with Romanesque gemel windows above the arches and, further up, a third register with round windows. There is a vaulted founder’s gallery on the second storey of the tower. The nave and the choir have cross-ribbed vaults supported by engaged pillars with or without capitals. The choir has a 5/8 apse. There are capitals above the wall-shafts, decorated with foliation, but also with biblical figures, knights and fabulous creatures. There is a Romanesque portal in the west wing of the south aisle. The bell tower is reshaped in the 18th century and provided with a helmet roof modelled on the Black Church in Braşov. Wooden galleries are installed on three sides of the nave. These vestiges suggest that the oval enclosing wall was up to 4m thick and 6-7m high; it had loopholes and machicolation and was built of quarry stones and boulders. This wall is further strengthened by four towers. Fragments of a chapel were found inside the enclosing wall.