Saschiz
Saschiz is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, central Romania. It is composed of three villages: Cloașterf, Mihai Viteazu, and Saschiz. Saschiz, with its 15th-century church, has been the home of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Villages with fortified churches in Transylvania, since its designation in 1999.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mihai Raducanu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 2,010 residents
- Description: commune in Mureș County, Romania
- Also known as: “Gemeinde Keisd”, “Keisd”, “Szászkézd”, and “Szászkézd község”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Fortified Church of Saschiz.
The Fortified Church of Saschiz
Church
Photo: Antony Stanley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Saschiz fortified church is a Lutheran fortified church in Saschiz, Mureș County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. It was built by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saschiz and Mureni.
Mureni
Village
Photo: Țetcu Mircea Rareș, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mureni is a village, which is situated 4½ km northeast of Saschiz.
Cloașterf
Village
Photo: Țetcu Mircea Rareș, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cloașterf is a village, which is situated 6 km southeast of Saschiz.
Saschiz
- Category: commune of Romania
- Location: Mureș County, Szeklerland, Transylvania, Romania, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
46.1953° or 46° 11′ 43″ northLongitude
24.9616° or 24° 57′ 42″ eastPopulation
2,010Elevation
414 metres (1,358 feet)Open location code
8GR65XW6+4JOpenStreetMap ID
way 75373816
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Volapük—“Saschiz” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Saschiz”
- Bulgarian: “Саскиз”
- Cebuano: “Comuna Saschiz”
- Chechen: “Саскиз (коммуна)”
- Chechen: “Саскиз”
- Chinese: “Saschiz”
- Chinese: “薩斯基茲鄉”
- Dutch: “Gemeinde Keisd”
- Dutch: “Keisd”
- Dutch: “Saschiz”
- Dutch: “Szászkézd község”
- Dutch: “Szászkézd”
- Esperanto: “Gemeinde Keisd”
- Esperanto: “Keisd”
- Esperanto: “Saschiz”
- Esperanto: “Szászkézd község”
- Esperanto: “Szászkézd”
- French: “Gemeinde Keisd”
- French: “Keisd”
- French: “Saschiz”
- French: “Szászkézd község”
- French: “Szászkézd”
- German: “Gemeinde Keisd”
- German: “Keisd”
- German: “Saschiz”
- German: “Szászkézd község”
- German: “Szászkézd”
- Hungarian: “Gemeinde Keisd”
- Hungarian: “Keisd”
- Hungarian: “Szászkézd község”
- Hungarian: “Szászkézd”
- Irish: “Saschiz”
- Italian: “Gemeinde Keisd”
- Italian: “Keisd”
- Italian: “Saschiz”
- Italian: “Szászkézd község”
- Italian: “Szászkézd”
- Malay: “Saschiz”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Saschiz”
- Polish: “Saschiz”
- Portuguese: “Gemeinde Keisd”
- Portuguese: “Keisd”
- Portuguese: “Saschiz”
- Portuguese: “Szászkézd község”
- Portuguese: “Szászkézd”
- Romanian: “Chizd” (historical)
- Romanian: “Comuna Saschiz, Mureș”
- Romanian: “Gemeinde Keisd”
- Romanian: “Keisd”
- Romanian: “Saschiz”
- Romanian: “Saschizd” (historical)
- Romanian: “Szászkézd község”
- Romanian: “Szászkézd”
- Serbian: “Општина Саскиз”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Saschiz, Mureș”
- Spanish: “Gemeinde Keisd”
- Spanish: “Keisd”
- Spanish: “Saschiz”
- Spanish: “Szászkézd község”
- Spanish: “Szászkézd”
- Tatar: “Саскиз (коммуна)”
- Tatar: “Саскиз”
- Turkish: “Saschiz”
- Ukrainian: “Саскіз”
- Vietnamese: “Saschiz”
- Volapük: “Saschiz”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Saschiz”. Photo: Mihai Raducanu, CC BY-SA 4.0.