Athens to Stuttgart Road Trip Part 10 – Day 2 in Sibiu

The second day in Sibiu. We walk around the old town and enjoy the old streets with the old houses. And the blue sky of course. There is so much to see in this little part of the city that you need two days at last. Better make it more days and you have more time to go to the museums which I could not in that short time. You find the 1st part of the Sibiu pictures from this trip here.

Nice frame

The empire strikes back

Beer test on the way home. They are both not really good.

There was a time when every house had one of them

Some university

Reformation Church

Sibiu Lutheran Cathedral of Saint Mary

Or the Evangelische Stadtpfarrkirche as the Germans called it. The Cathedral was built in the 14th century on the location of another 12th-century church. It served as burial place for important persons from Sibu for three centuries. They stopped it in 1796 but one exception was made in 1803 when Baron Samuel von Brukenthal was laid to rest in the crypt. With a height of 73.34 meters, the tower is the tallest in Transylvania. The four turrets on top of the steeple were a sign to foreigners that the town had the right to sentence to death.

Sibiu Lutheran Cathedral of Saint Mary

Mr. Georg Daniel Teutsch he was a Bishop here

The information board at the church

Up the clock tower for a birds eye view of the city!

The actual clock work

One of the bells

More bells

Another bell

View from the Sibiu Lutheran Cathedral

After the wedding – the pictures

Down again from the tower

Inside the Sibiu Lutheran Cathedral

They died fighting for the people and the fatherland from 1914 to 1919

And the names of the fallen

Lots of nice artwork all over the church

Death rules them all

Hmm – death to all them hunters?!!

Of course lots of Jesus paintings

The last supper

That looks like a safe door!

Nice organ – build 1914–1915 from W. Sauer Orgelbau in Frankfurt/Oder. It is the biggest in Eastern-Europe.

After he died

The Dalton Brothers pay their respect

This is where they put Brukenthal to rest

This is really a bad job – that could be nicer. This one is for the fallen from 1939-45 and the ones that died while been deported from 45 to 49. Below you see the list of the names.

That is a happy angel

Tombstones. From 1496 to 1796 the church served as burial-place for famous and important personalities in Sibiu. An exception was made in 1803 for Baron Samuel von Brukenthal. The tombstones that covered the graves were dismantled from the church nave in 1853 and incorporated in the walls of the church ferula.