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Beginnings
The history of the Evangelical (Lutheran) Church in the territory of today's Romania finds its beginnings in the mid-16th century, through the humanistcartographer and reformerJohannes Honterus. Martin Luther's writings had been brought and spread in Transylvania as early as 1519, but the real reformation among the German Catholic population took place in 1542 (or 1543) with the publication of Reformationsbüchlein, Reformation booklets, by Honterus in his own printing house in Brașov (German: Kronstadt).
In 1572, the Synod of Mediasch (Romanian: Mediaș) accepted the Augsburg Confession, one of the most important doctrinal documents of Evangelical Lutheranism (presented in 1530 at the Diet of Augsburg), as the basis for preaching and church life.
The organization of the German and Hungarian Lutheran church in Transylvania in 1904
The Lutheran German minority was highly persecuted during the communist era. The church activities were surveyed by the Securitate, its school system and the diaconal institutions were dismantled. This resulted in an increasing emigration of members. After the 1989 revolution (and the opening of the borders), many Germans left the country, which decimated the number of members in the church.
(Latin: Reformatio ecclesiae Coronensis ac totius Barcensis provinciae (1543), German: Reformationsbüchlein für Kronstadt und das Burzenland, Romanian: Cărticica de reformă pentru Brașov și Țara Bârsei)
"Geschichte" (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-05-01. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
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Black Church, Brașov
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Valea Viilor fortified church, Sibiu County
Saint Bartholomew Church, Brașov
