The Roman-Catholic Parochial House

The Roman-Catholic Parochial House is the first important attraction of the Large Square, being built in baroque style during 1726-1739. In the past, the building used to shelter the Jesuit Seminary. It includes fragments of the Skinners’ Hall.

In 1466 this used to be the main office of the tailors’ guild, which in 1688 is organized for catholic services by the Jesuit monks. During 1774-1790, on the second floor there used to be the Catholic Elementary School, which was moved to the Ursulines’ building in order to give place to the State Secondary School that will activate until 1899, when the current building of Gheorghe Lazăr High School is inaugurated. During 1899 and 1907 the County Court will move here.

Since the end of the 19th century, the ground-floor will accommodate stores. On the left side there used to be the first information office for hotels, coffee-shops and restaurants of Sibiu, Fleck & Preis, which was moved in 1907 to the Small Square, at no. 9, in order to give place to the Sibiu Branch of the Commercial Bank of Pesta. After 1920, when the bank was closed down, the place was occupied by Siebenbürgische Bank und Sparkasse until it was transferred to State ownership.

In the patio of the Parochial House there is the statue of the Saint Martyr Johannes Nepomuk, which used to be initially in the Large Square from where it was removed by the communist regime. The statue was accommodated for a long period of time by the yard of the Brukenthal Museum, until it was moved to the patio.