Codlea

Codlea is a municipality in Brașov County, critical Romania. During the 13th century, the Teutonic Order constructed a fortress known as Schwarzburg black castle close to the Măgura Codlei. The citadel's call changed into first noted in 1265 and turned into rebuilt for the final time in 1432 by way of the craftsmen’s guild that labored inside the city. The town of Codlea is believed to were also based via Germans. The fortified church within the city is the most important inside the Burzenland historic vicinity. Codlea become widely recognized for its plant life and changed into called the city of vegetation.

The Romanian call "Codlea" will be a derivation from the Latin codella, diminutive from Latin coda ‘facet, rearward’ or it could be a derivation from the Slavic cotal kettle, because the Măgura Codlei kettle hill looks as if a kettle. In Romanian, Magura method 'large hill, mound, forest located on a excessive location'. The hill additionally gives the Hungarian call of the town Feketehegy Black Hill. The German name's beginning is unknown, however there may be a theory that it became derived from Zeidler beekeeper.