{"id":18130,"date":"2023-05-30T16:04:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/?p=18130"},"modified":"2023-05-30T16:04:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:04:18","slug":"state-visit-to-the-landscape-of-fortified-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirchenburgen.org\/en\/state-visit-to-the-landscape-of-fortified-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"State visit to the Landscape of Fortified Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During his official visit to Romania, Germany’s Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) also paid a visit to the Evangelical Church A. C. in Romania and the Fortified Churches Foundation, of which he is a patron together with Romania’s President Klaus Johannis. It was the first presidential visit since 2016, when Steinmeier’s predecessor Joachim Gauck was a guest in Sibiu.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After meetings with representatives of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania and the Sibiu City Hall, where the high-ranking German guests met with Dr Paul-J\u00fcrgen Porr and Mayor Astrid Fodor, among others, the fortified church of Cristian was on the itinerary on the afternoon of 25 May 2023. Host President Klaus Johannis, the Federal President Steinmeier and his delegation were welcomed there by Bishop Reinhart Guib and the District Dean of Sibiu, Dietricht Galter, and were able to visit the mighty fortification in glorious early summer weather.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Using a model of the Curciu fortified church made by the architectural office Modul 28 from Sibiu, Philipp Harfmann from the Fortified Churches Foundation explained what a gentle and sustainable adaptive reuse project with accommodation possibilities could look like. In Curciu, exclusive guest rooms are currently being created in the fortified church as part of the <\/span>FortiVacation<\/span><\/i> project funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM).<\/span><\/p>\n

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