Former Monastery of the Ursulines

 Baroque (architecture), monastery, listed building / architectural heritage, 1730s construction, historical building, 18th century construction

At first, the church and monastery of the Ursulines was the halidom of the monastery of Dominican monks built in 1474.
In 1543, following the Reform, the German population switched to Lutheranism and the monastery closed down. During the Habsburg period, the church, known under the name of “The monastery church” (Klosterkirche in German) came in the property of the Roman-Catholic cult, being trusted to the Ursuline nuns in order for them to build a girls’ boarding school.
The construction works were finished in 1772. In 1789, the nuns opened the Catholic Elementary School which will become one of the elite schools of the city. The children coming from rich families studied here, their families seeking to educate them in a German environment, according to Jesuit customs.
The building hosted the renowned school for girls until 1949, when it was closed.
During the communist period and until 2012 the building hosted the Andrei Saguna Pedagogical College.
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