St. Margaret's Church, Mediaș

St. Margaret's Church is a Lutheran church located at 1 Piața Castelului in the town center of Mediaș (Mediasch), Sibiu County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. The present late Gothic structure was built between 1437 and 1488 by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area was ruled by the Kingdom of Hungary. Consecrated as a Roman Catholic church, with St Margaret of Antioch as its patron saint, it became Lutheran in 1545, during the Reformation. St. Margaret's church is located at the center of a large church fortress. About 150 of these buildings still exist in Transylvania. Seven of these villages with fortified churches are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.