St Margarets Church

St. Margaret's Church is a Lutheran church, located at 1 Piata Castelului in the historic town middle of Medias, Sibiu County, within the Transylvania place of Romania. The gift, late Gothic structure changed into built among 1437 and 1488 by means of the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time whilst the place belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. Consecrated as a Roman Catholic church, with St Margaret of Antioch as its consumer saint, it have become Lutheran following the Reformation.

Archaeological surveys conducted in 1971 to 2 have proven that a church constructing had already existed on the web page of the cutting-edge church by means of the second one half of the 13th century. Human burials had been unearthed which have been attributed to the German sepulchral way of life of this time. Already via the beginning of the 15th century, this building changed into replaced by a second, which took the shape of an aisleless church with an unusually long nave. Parts of this shape survived inside the northern nave of the present day building.