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Rupea Stronghold, The Core of Brasov County
The Rupea stronghold is situated right in the central point of Romania, in the Brasov county, at an altitude of approximately 500 metres, next to the river Olt. Also, the national road DN13 linking Brasov and Cluj-Napoca passes by and to the East of the impressive monument you'll find the small town Rupea.
This fortress was built in an area filled with rocks, a hill known as Cohalm, that's also the former name of Rupea, next to Holumna. The city of Rupea has a population of 5700 inhabitants but a history richer than many towns with hundreds of thousands of inhabitants. A former Dacian settlement, known as Rumidava, the current Rupea had its name changed as the Roman Empire took over Dacia and called the town Rupes (rock or stone in Latin).
The most important monument linked to the Rupea city is the Rupea stronghold, also known as Reps in German or Köhalom (pile of rocks) in Hungarian. In the 16th century, the "sasi" (Transylvanian Saxons) colonists found the fortress in ruins, after the barbaric invaders destroyed the last traces of Dacian and Roman civilisation in the area. The "sasi" built a new stronghold on top of the old one, one meant to house peasants. The structure is shaped like an ascending spiral and its fortification system has 3 sections: the upper fortress (built before the German colonists), the middle fortress (built in the 15th century) and the lower fortress (dating from the 18th century).
The upper fortress was built on top of the ruins of the initial fortification with a surface of 1.500 square metres, being surrounded by two circular defence walls. Later on, these walls also included paths for guardians and inside you could find storage rooms for cereals. The middle fortress was built immediately after the invasion of the Tatars from 1421, that destroyed the first fortress and then it was expanded in the middle of the 18th century with a pentagonal eastern tower and a chapel among its improvements.
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