2022-05-21 Agnita: Biserica evanghelică fortificată

            The bell tower (back), the tower of the Shoemakers and the tower of tailors.

Agnita is a town on the Hârtibaciu river north-east from Sibiu with about 8,300 inhabitants.
Agnita, mentioned for the first time in a document from 1280, is a town with traditional crafts, famous for the old guilds of tanners, shoemakers, tailors, coopers and potters, with semi-rural economy. In 1376, Louis of Anjou, king of Hungary, conferred to the village the right to hold annual fair. In 1466, Matthias Corvinus granted to the village the right to carry trials and built a fortress to defend the Kingdom of Hungary from the Ottoman Empire.
Initiated in the 13th century, the church was fortified along the seculars until the 17th, with three fortified enclosure and four towers witch demonstrates the economic strength of these guilds and were assigned to the in case of armed conflict.

Potters tower (Gate)
Blacksmiths tower (Eastern)
Tailors tower (Southeastern)
Shoemakers tower (Southwestern) and fragment of the enclosure wall .
   

Taken in: Romania / Sibiu / Agnita (show map)

Taken on: May 21, 2022

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Camera: Canon EOS 90D, f/7.1, 1/250 sec, 18mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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