Fortified Churches
NouA three-aisled pier basilica with a west tower, a choir square and a semicircular apse was built in the 13th century. Five round arches on square pillars with ledged arch imposts separate the nave from the groined-vaulted aisles. The choir square is also cross-vaulted; Gothic stone ribs were used only in the apse. The barrel vault with penetrations in the nave displays a Gothic network of brick ribs. The eastern termination of the aisles is linear.
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Fortified Churches
NouA three-aisled pier basilica with a west tower, a choir square and a semicircular apse was built in the 13th century. Five round arches on square pillars with ledged arch imposts separate the nave from the groined-vaulted aisles. The choir square is also cross-vaulted; Gothic stone ribs were used only in the apse. The barrel vault with penetrations in the nave displays a Gothic network of brick ribs. The eastern termination of the aisles is linear.
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The round-arched apse is structured on the outside by pilaster strips and a round-arched frieze. The consoles, alternating with the pilaster strips, show some architectural sculptures: a man's head and an animal's head.
The baroque organ is the work of Samuel Mätz. The pneumatic organ had 10 registers, manual and pedal. She was sold to Somuşca (Judeţ Bacău) in 1993.
The pulpit dates from the 18th century. It has a baroque painted pulpit crown.
The baroque altar was created in 1723. The central image is a Crucifixion surrounded by putti and vegetal decoration. Two marbled Corinthian columns flank the central panel. Further out are medallions, the images of which represent Paul and Peter. In the predella is a depiction of the Last Supper, above which is a restless neoclassical cornice.
Fragments of the former ring wall, which was built around 1500, are still preserved north and south of the church. In the middle of the south wall, a small flanking tower with a steep pyramidal roof in front of the wall line.
The ground floor of the tower is covered by a cross vault. Three floors rise above the ground floor, the third of which is illuminated by twin windows with columns and semicircular arches. Reliefs are built into the tower. They depict a bishop, a lion and a human head. During the course of the military preparations around 1500, the tower was given a defensive floor with a battlement paneled in wood.
| 1200-1300 | Construction of a three-nave Romanesque pillar basilica with a west tower. |
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| 1332 | First documented mention. "Johannes de Nova villa" appears in a papal tax list. |
| 1380 | Nou is a free village of the Sibiu See. |
| 1456 | The village is burned down by the troops of the Muntenian voivode Vlad Ţepeş. |
| 1480-1520 | Gothic reconstruction of the church. Instead of the flat ceiling in the central nave, a net vault is inserted, which rests on consoles in the north and on polygonal pillars in the south. The church is also being made to defend itself. |
| 1488 | In Nou there are 44 families, two shepherds, two paupers and a schoolmaster. |
| 1572 | There are 95 families in Nou. |
| 1993 | The organ is sold to Somuşca (Judeţ Bacău). |
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