Architectural Monuments of Romania

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About Architectural Monuments of Romania

Londonconstant (a group admin) says:
November 2009 - Looking for people to help me administer and promote this group, any takers if so drop me a line



This group refers to the most representative and outstanding monuments on the teritory of present-day Romania and to a lesser extent to monuments outside its borders which are connected with Romania's history. These may be fortresses of the principality of Moldavia at the time of Prince Stephen the Great which are now in the Republic of Moldova or in Ukraine or monuments erected by Romanian Kingdom administration between the two world wars within the former boundaries of Greater Romania. Again these could be monuments erected by the Romanian-speaking communities (especially churches)
in the Balkans, Ukraine, Hungary, Western Europe or the New World, provided that such monuments are of architectural merit.
One iconic monument of Antiquity would be Trajan's Column in Rome erected after the conquest of Dacia by the Romans. Likewise the Tropaeum Trajani (Adam Klissi) in Dobrogea province.
It stands to reason that monuments on the current territory of Transylvania erected by the Saxon and Hungarian settlers will be included, as well as monuments elsewhere erected by the Armenians, Russian or jewish comunities, again, provided that they are of outstanding architectural merit. Also during the last quarter of the 19th century and up to the WWI there were a number of French, German Italian and Swiss architects being commissioned various buildings in Bucharest and Austrian and Italian architects over a longer period in Transylvania and Banat, at the time of the Habsburg Empire.
Ceausescu's monstrosity, the so-called "Palace of the People" is NOT on the the list of this group, sorry.
We do however include historic pictures of the monuments he had destroyed when he had torn out the heart of the cities.

Definition of "Monument":
there is a certain confusion over such definition. Ideally an architecture monument should be a historic building which is listed. It could also be a more recent building of exceptional artistic value (people will always differ on the latter point, especially of a particular building is laden with political connotations.
In Romania the current problem is that there is no coherent, effective or comprehensive listing policy which should protect listed buildings from destruction or to encourage and educate people in restoring such buildings. Consequently we have included here buildings of sufficient merit, which although not listed either ought to be listed or conserved as part of a conservation neighbourhood.