Brick Gothic

Brick Gothic Soundex Code G320

Wikipedia page about Brick Gothic

Brick Gothic Architectural Styles

Brick Gothic is a specific style of Gothic architecture common in Northern Europe, especially in Northern Germany and the regions around the Baltic Sea, that do not have natural stone resources. The buildings are essentially built using bricks.

Brick Gothic buildings are found in Belarus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, and Sweden.

As the use of baked red brick in Northern Europe dates from the 12th century, the oldest such buildings are classified as the Brick Romanesque. In the 16th century, Brick Gothic was superseded by Brick Renaissance architecture.

Brick Gothic is characterised by the lack of figural architectural sculpture, widespread in other styles of Gothic architecture; and by its creative subdivision and structuring of walls, using built ornaments and the color contrast between red bricks, glazed bricks and white lime plaster.

Many of the old town centers dominated by Brick Gothic, as well as some individual structures, have been listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites.