Former Jesuit Seminary-The Roman Catholic Parish building
Romania /
Sibiu /
Piața Mare / Large Square, 2
World
/ Romania
/ Sibiu
/ Sibiu
World / Romania
place with historical importance, jesuit, Baroque (architecture), parish, 18th century construction, tourist attraction
The former Jesuit Seminary, the present day Roman-Catholic Parish House (includes fragments of the Furriers/Skinners Hall)
The building is formed of four bodies which correspond to the address at no. 3 in the Small Square.
Looking onto the Large Square, the main body incorporates a medieval area on the right hand side.
The entrance door framework bears the date it was built at - 1739. The medieval semi-cylindrical arches are still preserved at the ground floor and the first floor. At the second floor a Baroque arch with penetrations adorns the building.
HISTORY:
The building hosted the house of the guild of tailors starting with 1466, built between the Small Square and the Large Square, on the location of the former swinger.
In 1688 the house of the guild of tailors was set up by the Jesuit monks for catholic services.
The elementary Catholic school functioned at the second floor between 1774 and 1790 and it was relocated in the building of the Ursuline in order to make room for the State Gymnasium which will unwind its activity here until 1899, when the present day building of the Gheorghe Lazar High School was inaugurated.
The county Court House (Bezirksgericht) was relocated here between 1899 and 1907.
Starting with the end of the 19th century, the ground floor hosted commercial spaces.
The first “information office for hotels, cafes and restaurants” in Sibiu, Fleck & Preis, opened on the left, and subsequently moved from here in 1907 in the space at no. 9 in the Small Square in order to make room for the Sibiu branch of the Commercial Bank of Pesta. After 1920, when this bank ceased to exist, its place was taken by the Siebenbürgischer Bank und Sparkassa until it was nationalized.
The building is formed of four bodies which correspond to the address at no. 3 in the Small Square.
Looking onto the Large Square, the main body incorporates a medieval area on the right hand side.
The entrance door framework bears the date it was built at - 1739. The medieval semi-cylindrical arches are still preserved at the ground floor and the first floor. At the second floor a Baroque arch with penetrations adorns the building.
HISTORY:
The building hosted the house of the guild of tailors starting with 1466, built between the Small Square and the Large Square, on the location of the former swinger.
In 1688 the house of the guild of tailors was set up by the Jesuit monks for catholic services.
The elementary Catholic school functioned at the second floor between 1774 and 1790 and it was relocated in the building of the Ursuline in order to make room for the State Gymnasium which will unwind its activity here until 1899, when the present day building of the Gheorghe Lazar High School was inaugurated.
The county Court House (Bezirksgericht) was relocated here between 1899 and 1907.
Starting with the end of the 19th century, the ground floor hosted commercial spaces.
The first “information office for hotels, cafes and restaurants” in Sibiu, Fleck & Preis, opened on the left, and subsequently moved from here in 1907 in the space at no. 9 in the Small Square in order to make room for the Sibiu branch of the Commercial Bank of Pesta. After 1920, when this bank ceased to exist, its place was taken by the Siebenbürgischer Bank und Sparkassa until it was nationalized.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 45°47'50"N 24°9'6"E
- Reformed Parish House 0.2 km
- Turnisor Lutheran Parish House 2.8 km
- Parish House of the 'Annunciation' Orthodox Church 150 km
- Orthodox Church Parish House 158 km
- Parafia pw. Chrystusa Króla 818 km
- Naujoji Vilnia parish 993 km
- Former Lutheran Church 1014 km
- Demene parish 1126 km
- Medumi parish 1128 km
- Skrudaliena parish 1130 km
- Historic Center
- Huet and Lesser/Small Squares - fortified perimeter finished around 1224-1240 (Cibinium) 0.1 km
- Lower Town 0.1 km
- Upper Town 0.2 km
- Citadel Park--The Promenade 0.4 km
- Central Area (outside the Historic Center) 0.7 km
- Former Josephine district 0.9 km
- Terezian 1.2 km
- Sibiu 1.5 km
- Sibiu County 14 km