Monasteries
HerinaThe building of the three-aisled pier basilica with two west towers and a west gallery started around 1215. The German name of the village “Mönchsdorf” suggests that once there was a monastery here, but there are no fragments of such medieval structures left. There is a crypt in the church, which must have been designed as burial place for the noble landowner family of the Kacsics. The choir consists of a narrow rectangle and a semicircular apse. There are semicircular alcoves in the eastern section of the aisles. There are small round arch windows in the aisles and in the clerestory. The nave and the aisles are covered by flat wooden ceilings. The façades are decorated with pilaster strips and round arch friezes. The west portal has a fourfold tiering with colonettes and semicircular bead moulding. Romanesque corbel-table friezes decorate the façades of the towers. Romanesque gemel and triple windows with colonettes provide light in the tower storeys.
Monasteries
HerinaThe building of the three-aisled pier basilica with two west towers and a west gallery started around 1215. The German name of the village “Mönchsdorf” suggests that once there was a monastery here, but there are no fragments of such medieval structures left. There is a crypt in the church, which must have been designed as burial place for the noble landowner family of the Kacsics. The choir consists of a narrow rectangle and a semicircular apse. There are semicircular alcoves in the eastern section of the aisles. There are small round arch windows in the aisles and in the clerestory. The nave and the aisles are covered by flat wooden ceilings. The façades are decorated with pilaster strips and round arch friezes. The west portal has a fourfold tiering with colonettes and semicircular bead moulding. Romanesque corbel-table friezes decorate the façades of the towers. Romanesque gemel and triple windows with colonettes provide light in the tower storeys.
On a stone table rises a wooden altarpiece, 1.7 x 3.5 meters. In the center is a wooden crucifix, possibly from Gothic times, above which is an eye of God. Behind the altar is a tombstone rest, which shows as ornament a sun wheel.
In the northern choir wall is a small whitewashed sacramental niche made of hewn limestone. The rectangular niche is flanked by small round columns supporting foliate brackets. The upper finial is a donkey-back profile flanked by two pinnacles and a finial topped with a finial.
Under the choir there is a room, probably a crypt. Tradition says that from this room a passage led to the demolished count's house.
The vaulting of the west portal is richly articulated: quadruple gradation with columns or semicircular round bars in the rectangular gradations. In the Romanesque portal vaulting there is a Gothic door frame with shouldered arch and pear-bar moulding. The south portal also has a richly articulated wall with three pairs of columns and round arch finial.
| 1215 | The Romanesque church was built by the nobleman Simon de Kacsis. |
|---|---|
| 1246 | Alba Iulia bishop Gallus reports to King Béla IV that few residents are still alive in Herina as a result of the Tatar invasion. |
| 1341 | The Alba Iulia bishop complains about acts of violence by the Transylvanian voivode Thomas. It is mentioned that the voivode had plundered Herina. |
| 1380-95 | The Transylvanian bishop exchanges Herina and other places for a castle. This is how Herina came into royal possession. King Sigismund exchanges Herina and other places for other goods. Herina becomes aristocratic property again. |
| 1886 | The church is closed due to dilapidation. |
| 1887-1898 | Extensive restoration by the Hungarian Monument Preservation on the church. |
| 1944 | The organ bought in 1913 was destroyed in 1944. |
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