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Brick Gothic is a reduced style of Gothic architecture in Northern Europe, especially in the regions around the Baltic Sea without natural rock resources. The buildings are built more or less using only bricks. The resultant style is called Backsteingotik in Germany and Poland. Brick Gothic buildings therefore are to be found in the Baltic countries Denmark, Finland, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Russia and Sweden. Some of them are World Heritage Sites.

Contents 1 Brick Gothic in Belarus 2 Brick Gothic in Denmark 3 Brick Gothic in Estonia 3.1 Tartu 4 Brick Gothic in Finland 5 Brick Gothic in Germany 5.1 Hamburg 5.2 Lübeck 5.3 Lüneburg 5.4 Hannover 5.5 Rostock 5.6 Schwerin 5.7 Wismar 5.8 Stralsund 5.9 Greifswald 5.10 Güstrow 5.11 Bad Doberan 5.12 Prenzlau 5.13 Gransee 5.14 Neubrandenburg 5.15 Friedland 6 Brick Gothic in Latvia 6.1 Riga 6.2 Turaida 7 Brick Gothic in Lithuania 7.1 Vilnius 7.2 Kaunas 7.3 Trakai 7.4 Zapyškis 8 Brick Gothic in Poland 8.1 Braniewo 8.2 Brodnica 8.3 Chełmno 8.4 Chełmża 8.5 Chojna 8.6 Dobre Miasto 8.7 Frombork 8.8 Gdańsk 8.9 Gniew 8.10 Grudziądz 8.11 Kołbacz 8.12 Kołobrzeg 8.13 Kraków 8.14 Kwidzyn 8.15 Lidzbark Warmiński 8.16 Malbork 8.17 Nidzica 8.18 Olsztyn 8.19 Orneta 8.20 Pelplin 8.21 Radzyń Chełmiński 8.22 Stargard Szczeciński 8.23 Szczecin 8.24 Świecie 8.25 Toruń 8.26 Wrocław 9 Brick Gothic in Russia 10 Brick Gothic in Sweden 11 References 12 External links

• Kreva Castle
• Lida Castle
• Mir Castle
• Tower of Kamianiec

The most famous example in Denmark is the large Roskilde Cathedral.

• St. John's church
• Dome Cathedral

• Cathedral of Turku
• Johanneksenkirkko, Helsinki
• Keski-Pori Church, Pori

Mainly the cities of the Hanseatic league at the Baltic Sea like Lübeck, Greifswald, Rostock, Stralsund and Wismar preserved Brick Gothic from the Middle Ages.

• St. Petri (St. Peter’s church)
• St. Jakobi (St. Jacob’s church)
• St. Katharinen (St. Catherine’s church)

• Holstentor
• Rathaus (city hall/guildhall)
• Marienkirche (St. Mary’s church)
• Dom Romanic origin, but gothic appearance
• Saint Catherine Church, Lübeck
• Burgtor
• St. Annen Museum

• Marktkirche

• St. Marien (St. Mary's church)

• Dom (cathedral)

• St. Nikolai (St. Nikolaì`s church)
• St. Georg (St. Georg's church)
• St. Marien (St. Mary's church) (nave destroyed in WW II.)

• St. Marien (St. Mary's church)
• St. Nikolai (St. Nicolas church)

• St. Marien (St. Mary's church)

• St. Mary's church
• cathedral St. Mary, St. John evangelista and St. Cecilia
• St. Getrud's chapel with a part of the Ernst Barlach Memorial

• Doberaner Münster (monastery cathedral)

• St. Marien (St. Mary's church)

• St. Marien (St. Mary's church)

• Doma Cathedral
• St. Peter's Church
• St. Jacob's Church
• St. John's Church
• The House of Black Heads Society

• Turaida Castle

• St. Anne's Church
• Church of St. S.S. Francis and Bernardine
• Church of St. Nicholas
• Gediminas Tower and the remains of the Upper Castle

• Kaunas Cathedral
• Church of St. Gertrude
• Vytautas' the Great Church of The Accession of The Holy Virgin Mary
• Church of St. George
• Kaunas Castle
• House of Perkūnas

• Trakai Island Castle
• Trakai Peninsula Castle

• Zapyškis' Church

In Poland also known as Polish Gothic.

• St. Catherine's church

• St. Catherine's church

• St. Mary's church
• Church of S.S. Peter and Paul
• Church of S.S. Jacob and Nicholas
• City defense walls

• Former Cathedral

• St. Mary's church
• Town hall
• City gates

• Former collegiate church

• Frombork Cathedral

• St. Mary's Church in Gdansk
• Main City Hall
• St. Catherine's church
• St. Nicholas' church
• Church of Holy Trinity
• Former cistersian church in Oliwa
• Great Mill
• City gates

• Teutonic Knights castle

• Complex of 26 granaries situated at the Vistula bank
• St. Nicholas' church

• Cistersian church

• Former collegiate church, now cathedral

• St. Mary's Church, Krakow
• Wawel Cathedral
• St. Catherine church
• Barbican

• Cathedral and castle complex

• Bishops' Castle

• Malbork Castle

• Teutonic Knights castle

• St. James' church

• St. John's church

• Former cistersian church

• Teutonic Knights castle

• St. Mary's church
• City defence walls

• The cathedral St. Jacob
• St. John's church
• Loitz house

• Teutonic Knights castle

• City Hall in Toruń
• Church of S.S. John Evangelist and John Baptist, cathedral since 1992
• St. Mary's church
• St. Jacob's church
• Gable houses and granaries
• City walls

• City Hall
• St. Mary's church
• The cathedral of St. John
• Holy Cross church

• Königsberg Cathedral
• Vyborg Castle
• Georgenburg Castle
• Insterburg Castle
• Korela Fortress
• Oreshek Fortress
• Old Ladoga Fortress

Most Swedish cathedrals are built in a Brick Gothic architecture. The cathedrals in Uppsala, Västerås and Strängnäs are good examples of Brick Gothic buildings in Sweden.

Also in Skåne in southern Sweden, which was a part of Denmark until 1658, there are Brick Gothic churches. Examples of that is the early 14th century Saint Petri Church in Malmö, the Saint Mary Church in Helsingborg and a Saint Mary Church in Ystad.

Saint Petri Church Malmö

Saint Mary church, Helsingborg

Saint Mary church, Ystad

The Cathedral of Uppsala

• Gottlob, Fritz (1907) Formenlehre der Norddeutschen Backsteingotik: Ein Beitrag zur Neogotik um 1900. Reprint of 2nd edition (1999), Verlag Ludwig. ISBN 3-9805480-8-2 (German)
• Busjan, B.; Kiesow, G. (2002) Wismar: Bauten der Macht – Eine Kirchenbaustelle im Mittelalter. Monumente Publikationen der Deutschen Stiftung Denkmalschutz. ISBN 3-935208-14-6 (in German; Vol. 2 of Wege zur Backsteingotik, ISBN 3-935208-12-X)

• Wege zur Backsteingotik – ‘Ways to Brick Gothic’ (in German)
• European Route of Brick Gothic (in English, German and Polish)