Brașov
Title
Brașov
Also Known As
Brasso, Corona
Dates
Founded by 1235; destroyed 1241?
Affiliation
Unknown
Medieval Diocese
Circary
History
A list of Premonstratensian communities from 1235 refers to a “claustra sororum [...] in Hungaria [...] Dyocesis Cumaniae Corona [Brașov].”
This community is otherwise unknown in the historical sources, as is its precise location, though archaeologists have speculated that it may have stood on roughly the site now occupied by the later medieval Black Church of Brașov. The house was likely destroyed in the Tatar invasion of 1241.
This community is otherwise unknown in the historical sources, as is its precise location, though archaeologists have speculated that it may have stood on roughly the site now occupied by the later medieval Black Church of Brașov. The house was likely destroyed in the Tatar invasion of 1241.
Status
Women's community
Reference
DMT, 79
Image Credit
Brașov [Corona] ca. 1530s, from Johannes Honter, "Corographia Tranylvaniae Sybembürgen" (1532). Wikimedia.
Last Updated
Oct. 2026.
Files
Collection
Citation
“Brașov,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/210.