Locuinţe şi reşedinţe în cetatea Sighişoara
Houses and residences in Sighişoara

Summary/Abstract: Until the XlX-th century Sighişoara had been a little town of handicraftsmen and peasants in the same time, involved more in a home-trade. Until the XlX-th century the surrounding area of the town looked and parts of it still looks as a village. The houses seem not to have had any special workrooms and even the suitable shops have appeared only since the XlX-th century in the Market place (Marktplatz; Piaţa Hermann Oberth). The craftsmens' houses are very much alike. Most of them have long rectangular plan or a L form plan with a barell vaulted carriageble entrances, with one or two axises and two levels. But the town lies on a troubled land: the walled city is on a sloping hill and the down town on the foot of the hill is, partly, on sloping ground as well. That's why we find a large variety of solutions in which the common house plans were adapted to the land. Although most of the buildings were constructed in the XVIII-th century, some of them preserving the XV-th century stone barell vaulted caves, the houses have no stylistic features. The town presents a typical case of vernacular architecture. But we can point out a group of rich craftsmen'houses with 3 levels in Piaţa Cetăţii (Burgplatz); near the Clock Tower, the Tower street and Piaţa Hermann Oberth (Marktplatz). Some of them are more residences than common houses: Piaţa Cetăţii (Burgplatz) 6, 7, Şcolii (School Street) nr. 1. They represent a general facade of the economical and social center of the town. They are the only Renaissance and Baroque Buildings in this vernacular town.

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