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Image of one street from Sighisoara.

Sighişoara in German: Schäßburg; Latin: Castrum Sex) is a city and municipality on the Tarnava Mare River in Mures County, Romania.During the 12th century, German craftsmen and merchants known as the Transylvanian Saxons were invited to Transylvania by the King of Hungary to settle and defend the frontier of his realm. The chronicler Krauss lists a Saxon settlement in the actual Sighisoara by 1191. The city played an important strategic and commercial role at the edges of Central Europe for several centuries. Sighişoara became one of the most important cities of Transylvania, with artisans from throughout the Holy Roman Empire visiting the settlement. The German artisans and craftsmen dominated the urban economy, as well as building the fortifications protecting it. It is estimated that during the 16th and the 17th centuries Sighişoara had as many as 15 guilds and 20 handicraft branches. The Baroque sculptor Elias Nicolai lived in the city.
Central Sighişoara has preserved in an exemplary way the features of a small medieval fortified city, it has been listed by the UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Each year, a Medieval Festival takes place in the old citadel in July.

Schäßburg wurde in der zweiten Hälfte des 12. Jahrhunderts von deutschen Einwanderern, den sogenannten Siebenbürger Sachsen, gegründet. Im Jahre 1280 wird es als Castrum Sex das erste Mal urkundlich erwähnt

( Sighisoara - Wikipedia )