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In July 2017, the city of Eberswalde and Chorin Monastery joined the European Route of Brick Gothic association, a registered non-profit organization, together as a joint full member. Five years later, they hosted the 16th general meeting of the association. Splendid, late summer weather set the scene when a group of over 30 members from […]

St. Mary’s Church in Frankfurt (Oder) ranks among the largest hall churches of Northern German Brick Gothic. For good reason, too, as visitors will perceive the exterior of the church as an imposing brick monument. Upon entering it, however, many visitors are surprised to find themselves in an empty nave. Before the Second World War, […]

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the lovely guidebooks you sent us. The members of our travel group were very pleased with them. In future, we hope to be able to interest more groups in the Brick Gothic. I am sending you a short travel report by our Univentra group […]

Dear Friends and Supporters of Brick Gothic Christmas time and the start of a new year is often a time to reflect. We look back on our delightful encounters, and they remind us that together everything is so much easier to cope with. Together we can master all challenges, for only together are we truly […]

This year’s General Meeting of members of the European Route of Brick Gothic was held for the first time in the City of Four Gates Neubrandenburg. How did the visit come about? I vividly remember how — we made the commitment back at the General Meeting of members 2017 in Greifswald: “2020 in the City […]

As a support member I attended for the first time a general meeting of the European Route of Brick Gothic (EuRoB), driving from the Eifel to Neubrandenburg via Gotha, Bad Belzig in High Fläming, Potsdam and Buberow, then afterwards to Lübeck via Altentreptow, Burg Klempenow and Wismar. What a rich assortment of Gothic Brickwork! In […]

The significance of Eberswalde grew considerably when Albrecht II made the town a place of power of the Brandenburg margrave. In addition to the representative development of the town church of St. Mary Magdalene, the administrative relocation of an important trade route via Eberswalde is indicative of the contents of a margravial document sealed in […]

Dear Friends and Supporters of Brick Gothic At the beginning of 2021, we are starting a new challenging but also exciting year. Working group on monument preservation / science issues On February 24th, 2021 from 5 p.m., our working group on monument preservation / science issues will meet for an online session via Zoom. The […]