On 19 November 1377 hungarian king Louis I of Anjou granted brasovean people the privilege to build a fortress. Built on a tor and situated between Hill Fortress and Magura, its position ensured a great strategic advantage to both the valley and the hills of Moeciu as well as to Barsa country. In the first months of the year 1459, Vlad Tepes army penetrate through Bran, the wallachian prince, who attack Brasov burning suburbs and the old church of Bartholomew, action done after a commercial dispute that wallachian prince the had with merchants from Brasov.
In the year 1529 when Laudat, the commander of wallachian armies, trying to pass in Transylvania to help John Zapolya, met with the Bran fortress garnisone’s resistance, led by John Hock, the owner of the castel. Although the siege lasted several days, Bran fortress could not be conquered. The following year Bran fortress hold out against Mehmed Beg and stop the turks penetrate Transilvania. The son of Mihai the Brave, Nicolae Patrascu in 1600 intending to punish the brasovean people, which started a revolt against the wallachian lord authority, attempted to enter throu Bran in the Barsa country but unsuccessfully, being forced to retreat. The economic policy and the military strategy of habsburg authority in the XVIIIth century, led to the limitation of the castle Bran role, hindered brasovean people in their commerce with Wallachia, even preventing the lords from exercising their prerogatives on the territory of Bran. However the XIXth century brought the decline of the last military prerogatives of Castle Bran. Because of battle tactics changes and the generalization of fire arms performance, Bran Castle could be no longer an eficient security guard of the border line and in 1836 together with the removal of Transylvania borders with Wallachia up in the mountain, in Pajura, Bran Castle lost the role of customs office of the Austrian state and also the control of the transit trade in the area.
Due to the imminence of the forthcoming Russo-Romanian-Turkish war in 1877, the Austrian army occupied the fortress of Bran, replacing the roof, (easily exposed to air raids) with fag(g)ots, action that damaged it seriously.
The city of Brasov asked Austrian authorities to restore the fortress.They have accepted to support the cost of repairs made between 1883-1886, and at 22 July 1888 the austrians handed over Bran Castle to Brasov.
Shortly however, Brasov city donates the fortress to the forest Office of Brasov. Since that time it was lived by foresters from Bran and temporarily, in several official rooms, special decorated, forest inspectors from Brasov.
In the year 1529 when Laudat, the commander of wallachian armies, trying to pass in Transylvania to help John Zapolya, met with the Bran fortress garnisone’s resistance, led by John Hock, the owner of the castel. Although the siege lasted several days, Bran fortress could not be conquered. The following year Bran fortress hold out against Mehmed Beg and stop the turks penetrate Transilvania. The son of Mihai the Brave, Nicolae Patrascu in 1600 intending to punish the brasovean people, which started a revolt against the wallachian lord authority, attempted to enter throu Bran in the Barsa country but unsuccessfully, being forced to retreat. The economic policy and the military strategy of habsburg authority in the XVIIIth century, led to the limitation of the castle Bran role, hindered brasovean people in their commerce with Wallachia, even preventing the lords from exercising their prerogatives on the territory of Bran. However the XIXth century brought the decline of the last military prerogatives of Castle Bran. Because of battle tactics changes and the generalization of fire arms performance, Bran Castle could be no longer an eficient security guard of the border line and in 1836 together with the removal of Transylvania borders with Wallachia up in the mountain, in Pajura, Bran Castle lost the role of customs office of the Austrian state and also the control of the transit trade in the area.
Due to the imminence of the forthcoming Russo-Romanian-Turkish war in 1877, the Austrian army occupied the fortress of Bran, replacing the roof, (easily exposed to air raids) with fag(g)ots, action that damaged it seriously.
The city of Brasov asked Austrian authorities to restore the fortress.They have accepted to support the cost of repairs made between 1883-1886, and at 22 July 1888 the austrians handed over Bran Castle to Brasov.
Shortly however, Brasov city donates the fortress to the forest Office of Brasov. Since that time it was lived by foresters from Bran and temporarily, in several official rooms, special decorated, forest inspectors from Brasov.
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