Herina-Monchsorf (germ.)-Herina (rom.)-Harina(hun.) The Transylvanian village Herina was grounded in the XII-th century by the German colonists, who originally named it "Mönchsdorf" (meaning "village of the monks") due to the establishing of a catholic monastery. The church was built in about the same time.It was pretty big for those times and for the hard situation in XIIth century Transylvania. But later on, after the Transylvanian Germans chose the protestant faith (they shifted to the evangelic/lutheran faith in the XVI-th ct.), the monastery was closed and the village development halted. That's why the village community couldn't afford the restoration of the church in the trendy Gothic style any longer. So the Romanesque architecture is preserved very well till today. Please notice the triple windows, a clear sign of the Romanesque style.