European Route of Brick Gothic

Building signs for the European Route of Brick Gothic

The European Route of Brick Gothic is an association in which cities and regions have come together that have brick Gothic buildings in their area .

The route brings together several hundred monasteries, churches, council and town houses as well as city ​​fortifications from Denmark, Germany and Poland.

The purpose of the association is to make the brick Gothic known to the public. So that the value of this unique cultural heritage is recognized, the brick Gothic buildings are used and their preservation is ensured.

history

The association emerged from an initiative of the German Foundation for Monument Protection and two subsequent European projects.

In the 1990s, the German Foundation for Monument Protection, and especially its founder Gottfried Kiesow, launched the “Paths to Brick Gothic” initiative. The initiative had set itself the task of preserving the many architectural monuments in the former GDR area and above all to draw attention to the unique cultural heritage of brick Gothic. At the end of the initiative there was the exhibition "Burned Size", which was shown in 2002 in the Hanseatic cities of Greifswald , Rostock , Stralsund , Wismar and Lübeck . This exhibition can still be seen today in the St. Georgen and St. Marien Church in Wismar.

In 2002 two successive EU projects followed the initiative “Ways of the Brick Gothic”. They were called "European Route of Brick Gothic" or "European Route of Brick Gothic" (EuRoB and EuRoB II). Around 34 project partners (including around 29 cities and regions) from Denmark , Germany, Sweden , Poland , Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania took part in both projects . The second EU project EuRoB II ended in 2007.

Several former project partners then joined the “European Route of Brick Gothic” association in Greifswald on September 26, 2007. V. “together.

Purpose and work of the association

The purpose of the association “European Route of Brick Gothic eV” with the promotion of art and culture, science, education and international understanding is specified in the statutes.

Information sign at the Doberaner Minster

The development of compatible cultural tourism on the route corresponds to this requirement. The association's specific goals are:

• the maintenance and further development of the culturally and historically justified European route of the brick Gothic,
• the recording and documentation of architectural monuments of the brick Gothic along the route,
• the presentation of the history and development of European brick Gothic and its architectural, art and cultural-historical context,
• the presentation of the European Route of Brick Gothic and its buildings to the European public,
• the realization of information events and culturally and historically linked measures and projects on European brick Gothic,
• the conception and implementation of further training measures for members and interested parties of European brick Gothic,
• the implementation of local, regional and international publications, presentations and events to provide information about the »European Route of Brick Gothic« and the involvement of citizens and local stakeholders
• the development and distribution of information material as well as the qualification of electronic media on European brick Gothic.

The European Route of the Brick Gothic publishes a new travel guide every two years with the title "Along the European Route of the Brick Gothic". This describes all member cities with their brick Gothic highlights. In addition, there are small articles on a wide variety of topics relating to brick Gothic: such as other architectural epochs , the Teutonic Order , various building types, etc. a. This travel guide is provided free of charge by the association.

In addition, the association is developing routes along the brick Gothic, which can be explored by bike and which are published by the association as leaflets. Existing long-distance cycle paths are used for this purpose. There are now three different cycle routes, e.g. B. the Baltic Sea Cycle Route and the Mecklenburg Lake Cycle Route.

Members of the route

Haderslev Cathedral, Denmark

Town hall of Tangermünde, Germany

Gable of the Doberaner Minster, Germany

St. Mary's Church in Stargard, Poland

The European Route of Brick Gothic includes the following cities and regions:

In Denmark

• Haderslev
• Løgumkloster
• Roskilde

In Germany

Regions

• Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Cities

• Anklam
• Bad Doberan
• Brandenburg on the Havel
• Buxtehude
• Bützow
• Eberswalde
• Flensburg
• Frankfurt (Oder)
• Greifswald
• Guestrow
• Jueterbog
• Lüneburg with Bardowick and the parish of Lüneburg
• Neubrandenburg with Stargard Castle
• New monastery
• Parchim
• Prenzlau
• Ribnitz-Damgarten
• Schwerin
• Stendal
• Stralsund
• Tangermünde
• Wismar
• Wolgast

Buildings

• Chorin Monastery
• Marienkirche and Petrikirche in Lübeck
• the Lüneburg monasteries ( Ebstorf monastery , Isenhagen , Lüne , Medingen , Walsrode and Wienhausen )

In Poland

• Chełmno (Kulm)
• Danzig
• Grudziądz (Graudenz)
• Olsztyn (Allenstein)
• Plock
• Sławno
• Stargard
• Szczecin

Private individuals as well as companies and institutions also support the work of the association: AG Norddeutsche Brücksteinbasiliken , Schloss Güstrow , Torhaus Doberan , German Association for Housing, Urban Development and Regional Planning

literature

• Gottfried Kiesow : Burned Greatness - Ways to Brick Gothic , 5 volumes. monumente publications, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-935208-12-X .
• Gottfried Kiesow: Brick Gothic in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Hinstorff Verlag, with Thomas Gruner, 2004, ISBN 3-356-01032-8 .
• Angela Pfotenhauer, Elmar Lixenfeld: Brick Gothic . Monuments edition. Monument publications of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, Bonn 2000. Revised. Edition 2005, ISBN 978-3-936942-10-1 .

Web links

Commons : European Route of Brick Gothic  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the European Route of Brick Gothic
• Online manual Brick Gothic Heritage with building directory

• Literature on the European Route of Brick Gothic in the State Bibliography MV
• Permanent exhibition Burned Greatness - Buildings of Power in St. Georgen and St. Marien, Wismar
• Interview with Christoph Pienkoß from the European Route of Brick Gothic e. V. on brick architecture, monument protection and cultural tourism along the Baltic Sea coast, Monuments Online October 2010

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} European Route of Brick Gothic: Information material. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 14, 2016 ; accessed on July 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ European Route of Brick Gothic: Promoters of the European Route of Brick Gothic. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 14, 2016 ; accessed on July 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.