Reghin Lutheran Church

The church was built by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary.

The oldest building in the city, it was completed in 1330, as attested by a stone inscription in Latin, the earliest such carving on a medieval Transylvanian church.

Valuable architectural elements include a Gothic window frame from 1400 decorated with human figures; corbels unique to the region that describe a treasure hidden inside; and the city’s first coat of arms, inscribed O.P.R.

Near the entrance, a memorial tablet commemorates the Saxon soldiers who died in World War I while fighting in the Austro-Hungarian Army.

[2] The church was burned during Rákóczi's War of Independence (1703–1711), and its current appearance dates to the reign of Maria Theresa or Joseph II.