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| Clock tower at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Biertan Fortified Church. Biertan, Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania.
It was built by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. Briefly Roman Catholic, it became Lutheran following the Reformation.
The clock tower to the north of the church also serves as a gate within the inner fortifications. Four stories high, it has a wooden battlement and parapets. The clock is above the pyramid-shaped roof. |
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