List of Brick Romanesque buildings

Brick Romanesque is a style and era concept of architectural history. The term Romanesque buildings from the building material is brick and how the subsequent brick Gothic geographically confined to the North German and the Baltic region. Burrows of other regions are referred to as " Romanesque brick church " and similar descriptive formulations.

Compared to the " Brick Gothic " is the " brick Romanesque " a less established term. This is due to the fact that had not yet developed a distinctive style in the Baltic region in the Romanesque period, on the other hand the fact that relatively few buildings have survived. Many of the masterpieces of Gothic brick architecture, however, was preceded by Romanesque predecessors, some of which are still recognizable in the Gothic buildings. In almost all buildings preserved are churches. From the conceptualization establishes the brick Romanesque church stands in contrast to the mostly older stone church, which was built from rock fragments and boulders. This is known in Holstein as Vicelinkirche. In Denmark, also round churches as stone churches are obtained from the Romanesque period. The Lesesteine ​​limited construction in size. More than the construction of village churches was with this material, and in this construction baustatisch not possible, but also not necessary. The monumental brick building was only made possible with the increasing perfection of brick construction.

As the oldest brick church in northern Europe is considered, which began in 1156 St. John's Church in Oldenburg ( Holstein). The first monumental churches were those of Henry the Lion donated Dome of Ratzeburg and Lübeck, whose construction began shortly after 1160. The Lübeck Cathedral, however, was rebuilt from 1266 to 1335 to a Gothic hall church. A key position for the Brandenburg brick architecture occupies the Kloster Jerichow - with its 1148 began collegiate church. For Scandinavia, particularly the stylistically distinct Roskilde Cathedral is significant, which was begun in the 1170s and used as a burial place of Danish kings. A final climax and the transition to Gothic designs marked the Cistercian monastery Lehnin in the Mark Brandenburg.

Roskilde Cathedral

Apse of the monastery church Lehnin

Monastery Jerichow

List of brick Romanesque churches

Germany

Poland

Denmark

Sweden