Cincu

Cincu is a commune in Brașov County, Romania. It consists of villages, Cincu and Toarcla. Each of those has a fortified church. Cincu is first noted in a document of 1329 as Schenck, a word linked to Schenke, which means tavern in German. The village became based in the mid-twelfth century with the aid of some 30 families of German settlers from the Rhineland. There had been sixty four families in 1488, 70 in 1532 and 344 in 1729. Some 215 individuals have been settled there through the Habsburgs in 1753. In 1850, there had been 2635 inhabitants. In 1930, there had been 2449, of whom 1112 were Transylvanian Saxons.

In 1956, the populace stood at 2232. The Saxons' territory was divided into "seats"; a number of the oldest become the Schenk Seat, with its capital at Cincu. It included 22 localities, amongst them the modern-day metropolis of Agnita. Cincu has had its very own coat of hands because 1448 and turned into d a market metropolis in 1474. In 1600, its citadel was burned with the aid of the troops of Michael the Brave.