Rasnov Citadel

Rasnov Fortress is a historical monument and landmark in Romania. It is located in Rasnov, Bra?ov County, inside the immediately place of Bra?ov. The fortress changed into constructed as a part of a defence gadget for the Transylvanian villages exposed to outdoor invasions. A decisive aspect for building the castle at its location became the path of the invading armies which have been coming from the Bran skip and had been passing through Rasnov, on their manner to Rasnov and different elements of the Burzenland area. The only threat of survival for the inhabitants of the place, including from Cristian and Ghimbav, was the shelter inside the shelter castle at Rasnov.

Compelled to stay there for decades, the human beings of Râ?nov and the close by villages grew to become the fortification into their long-term region of house. Archaeological studies revealed the existence of fortification lines at the citadel hill in view that prehistoric and Dacian instances. The medieval fort of today is taken into consideration to be constructed among 1211 and 1225, at some stage in the rule of the Teutonic Knights in Burzenland, although there may be no evidence in this admire. In 1335, all through a Tatar incursion that ravaged Burzenland, Rasnov and Bra?ovia have been the only fortified locations last unconquered. This is likewise the primary documented attestation of the fortification.