Beyond the north-eastern walls of „Braşov’s Stronghold”, demolished in the XIXth century, where in the Middle Age used to take place the executions and the burnings of witches, new administrative buildings have been erected: The Finances Palace (1897-1898, the nowadays City Hall), The Justice Palace (1902, today the Prefecture), The Post Palace (1906). From Portica towards Warthe there were built the Vila Kertsch (1887, demolished in 1970), The Artisans Association's House (1902, today the Museum of Art), Vila Schuller (1896, dismantled in 1962), The State Humanistic Superior School (1888-1889, today the T wing of the University), The Reformed Church (1891-1892, the architect Alpár Ignátz, demolished in 1963), The Pensions General Institute Palace (1881-1885, today the University Rector’s Seat), Dr. Baiulescu House (1888, on the emplacement of the Belt-Makers Bastion, demolished in 1887) and the Roman-Catholic Boys Highschool (1901, today “Aprily Lajos” Highschool), located „beyond the Walls”, with its main facade towards Graft rivulet).
New buildings border towards the „Stronghold” Rudolf Boulevard (Rudolfsring, subsequently Carol I Boulevard, today the Heroes Boulevard), set up on the tracing of the defence medieval ditch of the north-eastern side.
Between the ancient defence ditch of “Braşov’s Stronghold” and the Stronghold’ Hill was set up the Rudolf ParK, which bears today the name of the Romanian diplomat “Nicolae Titulescu”, (1882-1941), whom monument, created by the sculptor Doru Drăgușin, decorates its alleys, along with the busts of the poets Şt. O. Iosif (1875-1913), a creation of the artist Corneliu Medrea and Cincinat Pavelescu (1872-1934), sculpted by Gheorghe Popa, in 1935.
The Rector's Seat of „Transilvania” University (The Heroes Boulevard 29) has been erected in 1881-1885, as seat of the General Pensions Institute, according to the plans of Peter Bartesch, (1842-1914), the first „building engineer of the town” in the area of the ancient fortifications of the „Stronghold”, in neo-Renaissance style, with the facades of the upper register decorated with allegorical figures, in sgrafitto technique of the painter Lotte Goldschmidt.
Dr. Gheorghe Baiulescu House (Heroes Boulevard 33), has been erected in 1888, on the spot of the Belt-Makers Bastion, located in the north-western corner of the medieval stronghold, demolished to this effect. The residence of the first Romanian mayor of Brasov after the Great Union of 1918, built up by Peter Bartesch in neo-Renaissance style, is today a section of the county library, also hosting the English Cultural Centre and the French Mediatheque.
The Building of „George Bariţiu” County Library (The Heroes Boulevard 35), erected between 1927-1929 by the architects Moritz Wagner and Constantin Nanescu in neo-Romanian style, with its initial destination as seat of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, closes the prospective towards Warthe Hill. The library functions inside the building since 1969 and hosts a fond of more than 280.000 tomes, with an encyclopaedic character.
In front of the library there is the statue of George Bariţiu (1812-1893), historian and publicist, who founded in 1838 at Brasov, „The Gazette of Transylvania” the first political and informative newspaper of the Romanians living in Ardeal.
On the line of the north-eastern fortifications of the old stronghold erected around the town was built the Palace of the Artisans’ Association (The Heroes Boulevard 21), in 1902, in neo-Baroque style, which hosts since 1970 The Art Museum, initially a section of the Regional Museum (1950). The panting, graphic and sculpture collections are representatives for both the Romanian modern and contemporary Art and the Transylvanian art specific to the XVII-XXth centuries, with a patrimony of more than 3800 cultural items. The ground floor halls host temporary exhibitions and cultural manifestations, such as concerts, books launchings, round tables, conferences.
In the same building there was set up The Ethnography Museum, initially a section of the Regional Museum (1950), founded in 1967 and reorganized in 1990. Its patrimony of more than 21.256 items, which origin dates back to the XVIII-XXth centuries, is dedicated to the regional ethnology of the south-eastern Transylvania, illustrating the civilisation of the rural community of the ethnographic areas Bran, Rupea, Ţara Oltului, Hârtibaciului Valley, Ţara Bârsei.
In the area between the „Stronghold” and the historical suburb „Blumăna”, eastward, has been erected the building of the Dramatic Theatre „Sică Alexandrescu”. Founded in 1946, the institution has launched ever since more than 350 first-nights; since 1978, it keeps organizing the Festival of Contemporary Dramaturgy.
Near the theatre's building there is the statue of the national anthem's author, Andrei Mureşianu (1816-1863), the creation of the sculptor Virgil Fulicea, inaugurated in 1973.
In the square in front of the Dramatic Theatre was erected in 2002 the Monument of the Anticommunist Combatant, and near the Post Palace there is the Romanian Revolution Heroes' Park, where are buried some of the martyrs killed in December 1989 in Brasov; to celebrate their memory, a memorial cross has been erected.