21.06.2025
June 21, 2025 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.
Participating cities in 2025 (the program is constantly updated)
Brandenburg an der Havel
10.30 to 11.30 am: Tour of the old town
Meeting point: Fritze-Bollmann-Brunnen, Hauptstraße 22, D-14776 Brandenburg an der Havel
Price per person: EUR 8.00, children up to 12 years free
12.00 to 12.30 pm: Organ music for lunch
Meeting point: St. Catherine’s Church (St. Katharinenkirche), Katharinenkirchplatz
Price per person: free, donations are requested
Greifswald
12 noon: Art break with Dr. Ruth Slenczka “Homecoming from New York – Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings of Neubrandenburg”
For Goethe, Gothic is a German architectural style that stands in contrast to the ideal of classical antiquity, on which French and Italian architecture is based. The Romantics enthusiastically adopted this interpretation, as did Caspar David Friedrich. His painting Neubrandenburg with the Gothic silhouette of the city bears eloquent witness to this. It was an ambassador for the Pommersches Landesmuseum at the Friedrich exhibition in New York and is now back safe.
Admission: EUR 6,00
Meeting point: Pommersches Landesmuseum, Rakower Str. 9, D-17489 Greifswald
Grudziądz
10.00 and 11.00 am: St. Nicholas Church
Guided tour of the Brick Gothic St. Nicholas Church with ascent of the tower
More information at www.itgrudziadz.pl
Organisation: MORiW
Registration at the tourist information centre. Admission is free of charge. The number of places is limited.
10.00 am: Family game ‘Brick Gothic in Grudziądz’
Meeting point: Tourist Information, Markt 3-5
More information at www.itgrudziadz.pl
Organisation: MORiW
Registration at the tourist information centre. Admission is free of charge. The number of places is limited.
22 June (Sunday), 3 pm: former castle
‘A hill full of legends‘ – learn about the legends of Grudziądz and the history of the castle
More information at www.itgrudziadz.pl
Organisation: MORiW
Registration at the tourist information centre. Admission is free of charge.
Jüterbog
4 pm: Themed tour “On the way between fieldstone and brick along the town fortifications of Jüterbog”
Duration: 1,5 – 2 h
Costs: EUR 10,00 per participant
Meeting point: Entrance to the Mönchenkloster, Mönchenkirchplatz 4, D-14913 Jüterbog
Please register at brita-hannemann@t-online.de
Neubrandenburg
3 to 4.30 pm: Exclusive insight: Experience a historical jewel up close
On 21 June 2025, the gates to a special piece of history will open for 77.7 minutes: the Stargard front gate (Stargarder Vortor)
Experience the fascinating Brick Gothic style and let Karsten Heilmann, monument conservator, give you exciting insights into the architecture, history and secrets of this impressive era.
Meeting point: Stargarder Vortor, Neubrandenburg
Duration: 77,7 minutes
Free entry
Płock
22 June (Sunday), 12.00 noon: Guided tour of the Brick Gothic
The city of Płock, together with the Płock Tourist Board, invites you to take a guided walk along the Route of Brick Gothic:
Former castle and Benedictine abbey
Collegiate church of St. Michael
“House under the trumpets”
St. Dominic Church
Town wall
Gothic house (headquarter of the Scientific Society)
Former defence tower
Parish church of St. Bartholomew
Prenzlau
Culinary table in the “Friedgarten” of the Dominican monastery in Prenzlau
Further information will follow.
Stendal
10.00 to 12.00 and 14.00 to 16.00 pm: Uenglinger Gate (Uenglinger Tor)
Regularly open (with regular admission price according to the statutes)
2.00 pm: Guided tour of the city with a focus on Brick Gothic and the summer solstice
regular seasonal guided tour (5,00 EUR p.p.)
Duration: ca. 90 min.
Start from Tourist-Information, Markt 1, D-39576 Stendal
4.00 pm: Gertraudenhospital
SPECIAL free guided tour (donations are requested)
Duration: ca. 30 min.
Start from Gertraudenhospital
Churches in Stendal
For regular opening hours see: Tourist-Information Stendal
General Information about the Day of Brick Gothic
The special day declared by the European Route of Brick Gothic is held throughout Europe every year on the third Saturday in June and raises awareness of the cultural heritage of Brick Gothic.
The occasion for the first Day of Brick Gothic in 2018 was the European Year of Cultural Heritage, which was celebrated across Europe with the idea of “Sharing Heritage”. In Germany, Denmark and Poland, the Day of Brick Gothic is realised through the combined effort of representatives of monument preservation, science, the Church, tourism and administration and is coordinated by the European Route of Brick Gothic.
The member cities of the European Route of Brick Gothic combine the shared cultural heritage of Brick Gothic – the Medieval Brick Gothic architecture predominantly in the Baltic Sea region, which they aim to convey together to the general public. An important shared goal is to inspire people for conserving this cultural heritage.
