Last Updated on martie 31, 2014
Black Church Brasov Opening Hours, Transylvania Romania.
Biserica Neagra or Black Church (German: Schwarze Kirche; Romanian: Biserica Neagra; Hungarian: Fekete templom) is a cathedral in Brasov, a city in south-eastern Transylvania, Romania.
It was built by the German community of the city and stands as the main Gothic style monument in the country, as well as being the largest and one of the most importantLutheran (Evangelical Church of Augustan Confession in Romania) places of worship in the region.
The originally-Roman Catholic structure was known as the Church of Saint Mary, replacing an older building used for the same purpose.
Construction on it began during the late 14th century, at an unknown date — analysis of related evidence has led several researchers to conclude that work began between 1383 and 1385, employing Bulgarian workers and craftsmen who proceeded to establish the Brasov Bulgarian colony in Șcheii Brasovului. According to popular legend, a German child was disturbing the Bulgarian builders or told them that one of the walls was leaning. An annoyed Bulgarian pushed the child off the church tower and then immured his corpse in the church to conceal his crime.
Biserica Neagră is 89 meters in length and 38 meters wide. It measures 65 meters from the floor level to the highest point of its only bell tower. The Black Church has a six ton bell, the biggest in Romania, an impressive 4,000 pipe organ built in 1839 by Carl August Buchholz (1796–1884) which is played during weekly concerts, as well as a rich collection of Anatolian carpets donated from the 15th to 17th centuries by Transylvanian Saxon merchants), some of which are said to have been used to decorate walls as well as floors after the Reformation. (wikipedia.org)
Black Church Brasov Opening Hours:
April 7 – October 12, Tuesday – Saturday 10.00 – 19.00, Sunday 12.00 – 19.00.
Black Church Brasov Opening Hours:
14 October – April 2015, Tuesday – Saturday 10.00–15.00, Sunday 12.00–15.00.
On Mondays the Black Church Brasov is closed to the public for visits.
