EVOLUTIA URBANISTICA A SEBESULUI ÎN SECOLELE XVII-XVIII: ORASUL INTRA MUROS
THE URBANISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOWN OF SEBES IN THE 17TH-18TH CENTURIES: THE INTRA MUROS TOWN

Summary/Abstract: economically and demographically, but also urbanistically. There were no noteworthy undertakings in what regards public edifices except for some consolidation and modernisation works focused on the town fortifications. This is when the two barbicans marking the two main gateways of the town, the eastern and the western one, were built. The buildings of Sebes got severely damaged in 1661 when the Turks conquered the town and set it on fire. This event hastened the replacement of the wooden houses, which continued to be quite numerous for that time, with stone and brick constructions. Documents dating from the late 17th Century and the early 18th Century mention the main streets of the town as well as the four neighborhoods on the structure of which the Rosarum, Jacobi, Petri and Siculorum quarters were later built. Beginning with the 18th century, the defensive function of the town fortifications diminishes gradually as a result of the period of relative calm that had settled in Transylvania. Houses are built closer and closer to the walls, the surrounding ditches begin to be filled in and the lakes to be drained off. The plots of land thus obtained were turned into gardens. In the year 1731 the magistrate and the local community give the former Dominican monastery to the Franciscan Order. In 1740 the monastery and its outbuildings were renovated with the support of Empress Maria Theresia. The 18th Century pieces of information regarding the buildings of the town are more numerous and of a better quality compared to the ones dating from previous centuries. The descriptions are more detailed and, occasionally, they refer to importantconstructions such as the Evangelical Parochial Church, the town hall and various elements of the town fortification. One such description is that written by Georg Marienburger in 1785.

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