The Fortress from Hiliseu Crisan

At Hiliseu Crisan one of the architectural masterpieces of Romania is found: The church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. At a distance of 15 km from Dorohoi, passing by the well-known fairy tales of Codrii Herţei, set aside for the hikers, lies the village of Hiliseu-Crisan. As you enter the village, coming from Dorohoi, you will find on the left a historical monument of category A of national interest. You will see an old church like the world, from wood, as rarely as you have been given to see. Decorated with special architectural elements, with saints watching the entrance wall and a bell tower just like Benedictine monasteries, these with baroque influences, typical of the West, are all very special for this area of the country. The 13 statues of the saints are of natural magnitude and represent the 12 apostles with Jesus Christ. The Church is unique in the country and in Europe, both in appearance and above all by meaning. Half the Catholic, the Orthodox half, the church is not just an architectural treasure, but also a cultural and spiritual one. Thus, there are united here, under the same roof, the two beliefs divided by the Great Schism of 1054. The wooden church was built in 1802 at the expense of boyar Vasile Curt, the then owner of the Hiliseu estate. Above the entrance door, under a series of floral sculptures, was dug in the light of the door 1802, May 21. According to the local tradition, the church would have been the core of a nunnery, set in the middle of the mosque. The church was completed at a later stage with the gate and wall of a new generation of the family of the property owners Alecu and Ana Curt. The elders of the village report that Ana, the wife of the boyar, was a Catholic, and the boyar was Orthodox ... so as not to quarrel with his wife, he made the bell tower and the Catholic fence. This bell is raised by Ana Curt, born Berneasa, (1832-1867), in 1858, with the funeral monument inside the church. On the southern side, the following dedication can be read on the southern side: <Aleco and Anna de Curt rulers of Hilisei doctrine this monumental to the mourners of their children Anna, Gheorghie, Alecsandru, Oto, Maria and Vasily, founded in 1858> On the east face of the monument are three plaques of marble written. On the left one can read: <Alecu Curt died in 1889, in June, the benefactor and master of these places ... grateful: Didina and Eugenia.