How they made cathedrals out of bricks

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 […]

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Christmas Greetings

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 […]

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International guests visit the City of Four Gates Neubrandenburg

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 […]

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Day of Brick Gothic 2022

June 18th, 2022 is the Day of Brick Gothic On this day, numerous members of the European Route of Brick Gothic invite the public to enjoy special events, fascinating tours and exclusive insights. > Press release on the Day of Brick Gothic 2022 Participating cities in 2022 (the program is constantly updated) Bad Doberan Guided […]

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Travel report of a support member

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 […]

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EuRoB on TV

On the occasion of our General Meeting 2021 in Neubrandenburg, North German television and radio (Norddeutscher Rundfunk, NDR) were on site and made a film for a TV magazine called “Nordmagazin”. The TV reportage can be found here.

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The Brick Gothic working group introduces itself

In September 2020, architectural historian Dirk Schumann and EuRoB Executive Director Dr. Edith Kowalski took part in the 15th International Congress of Brick Architecture in Wismar and presented her scientific working group on Brick Gothic, which is affiliated with the European Route of Brick Gothic. The conference proceedings were published in May 2021. You can […]

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Marketing Meeting

Our meeting of the marketing working group will take place on Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from 11-15 o’clock online via Zoom. Please register at info@eurob.org

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World Heritage and Brick

The 2021 annual edition of the magazine WELT-KULTUR-ERBE of the Hanseatic cities of Stralsund and Wismar with the thematic focus “World Heritage and Brick” is now available, with an article on the European Route of Brick Gothic (in German): Universeller Wert eines universellen Baumaterials – Das internationale Netzwerk Europäische Route der Backsteingotik e.V. (Universal value […]

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The Hospital Chapel of St. George in Eberswalde

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 […]

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