Saschiz (; , <small>Hungarian pronunciation:</small> ; Transylvanian Saxon: Keist) is a commune in MureàCounty, Transylvania, central Romania. It is composed of three villages: CloaÃÂterf (Klosdorf; Miklóstelke), Mihai Viteazu (Zoltan until 1932; Zoltendorf; Zoltán), and Saschiz.
Saschiz, with its 15th-century church, has been the home of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Villages with fortified churches in Transylvania, since its designation in 1999.
Saschiz is situated on the , in the south-central part of the Transylvanian Plateau, at an altitude of , on the banks of the river Scroafa. It is located at the southern extremity of MureàCounty, on the border with BraÃÂov County. The commune is about east of the city of SighiÃÂoara; the county seat, Târgu MureÃÂ, is northwest of Saschiz.
The commune is crossed by national road (part of European route E60), which connects BraÃÂov with SighiÃÂoara and Târgu MureÃÂ. The route of the Via Transilvanica long-distance trail passes through both Saschiz and CloaÃÂterf.
At the 2002 census, Saschiz had a population of 2,048: 88% Romanians, 5% Germans (more specifically Transylvanian Saxons), 4% Hungarians, and 3% Roma. At the 2011 census, the commune had 1,965 inhabitants, of which 82.29% were Romanians, 8.96% Roma, 3.05% Germans, and 2.09% Hungarians. At the 2021 census, Saschiz had a population of 2,080; of those, 85.82% were Romanians, 6.92% Roma, 1.97% Germans, and 1.06% Hungarians.