KÉZDISZENTLÉLEK
After the first Ottoman (Turkish)
attacks on Transylvania in the first half of the 15th century, the
defense of the country had to be organized. Wherever there was
not a castle or a fortress nearby, they pulled walls around the
churches thus making them makeshift fortresses, referred to as
fortified churches. This picture shows the church of
Kézdiszentlélek, which was fortified with walls and circular
bastions, in 1401, by Kata Ápor, a local heroine. The originally
gothic church was modified to baroque style in the 18th century.
