Fortified Churches
UngraA Romanesque basilica dedicated to Saint Andew was built in the 13th century. It has a west tower, a choir square, a semicircular apse and apsidioles. Five basalt arcades rest on quadrangular pillars. The Romanesque round arch portal on the ground floor of the tower displays tiers. Roman spolia were used in the building process. Around 1500 the aisles were demolished and the arcades got bricked up. In 1843, the earthquake-damaged tower was demolished and the west portal was opened. The church hall is covered by a flat ceiling and the choir is cross-vaulted. There are galleries supported by wood columns on three sides of the church hall. The defence walls are linear in the north, in the west and in the south. There is a pentagonal tower with crenellation in the north-east corner of wall. There is a gate tower in the south with a belfry in front of it displaying a wooden upper section.
Fortified Churches
UngraA Romanesque basilica dedicated to Saint Andew was built in the 13th century. It has a west tower, a choir square, a semicircular apse and apsidioles. Five basalt arcades rest on quadrangular pillars. The Romanesque round arch portal on the ground floor of the tower displays tiers. Roman spolia were used in the building process. Around 1500 the aisles were demolished and the arcades got bricked up. In 1843, the earthquake-damaged tower was demolished and the west portal was opened. The church hall is covered by a flat ceiling and the choir is cross-vaulted. There are galleries supported by wood columns on three sides of the church hall. The defence walls are linear in the north, in the west and in the south. There is a pentagonal tower with crenellation in the north-east corner of wall. There is a gate tower in the south with a belfry in front of it displaying a wooden upper section.
The baroque altar comes from the second half of the 18th century. A 16th-century Crucifixion from an older altar hangs in the nave.
Today's organ was built by Heinrich Maywald (Brasov) in 1846. It has 13 registers.
The Romanesque round-arched portal on the ground floor of the tower has steps. The columns that stood in the niches formed by them have disappeared. In the quadruple stepping of the semi-circular arch of the portal are three round bars.
The ring wall seems heterogeneous : in the east, between the gate tower and the pentagonal tower, an older section, possibly from the 13th century, is preserved, while the three sides to the south, west and north were built in the 15th-17th centuries. The dimensions of the polygon are 52 x 35 m. The ring wall is reinforced by towers and bastions.
Near Ungra, the remains of a Roman camp have been found. Stones of Roman buildings from this area are used in the construction of the church. Two stones with weathered lion heads are walled in to the left of the west portal.
| 1200-1300 | Construction of a Romanesque basilica with a west tower. |
|---|---|
| 1211 | In the award document of Andrew II, in which the Țara Bârsei is given to the Teutonic Knights, the castrum "Noilgiant" is mentioned. Possibly this was a Hungarian base at the place of today's Ungra. |
| 1500 | Ungra is a village of the Rupea seat with 33 families and 4 shepherds. One farm is deserted. |
| 1500 | The side aisles are removed and the arches are bricked up. |
| 1500-1600 | Hungarians and Szeklers settle in the village. |
| 1658 | Turkish troops destroy the village and kidnap the inhabitants. |
| 1658 | The fortified church is fumigated and taken, later the church is covered with straw. |
| 1701 | In the redistribution of church places, 62 of the women have Saxon surnames and 34 have Hungarian surnames. |
| 1704 | Kurucs looting and pillaging in Ungra. |
| 1719 | The plague kills 187 inhabitants of the village. |
| 1761 | The church receives a new tower roof. |
| 1843 | The tower, damaged by the earthquakes of 1802 and 1829, is demolished, exposing the west portal. |
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