Roșia fortified church

iB9ine, Romania · built 1201

The Roșia fortified church (Romanian: Biserica fortificată din Roșia, Kirchenburg von Rothberg) is a Lutheran fortified church in Roșia (Rothberg), Sibiu County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. It was built by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. Initially Roman Catholic, it became Lutheran following the Protestant Reformation.

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