Architectural Styles
Brick Gothic
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
12th C -15th C
- Fired brick with red/orange hues
- decorative brickwork
- different shaped brickwork
- pointed arches
- ribbed vaults
- steep roofs
- decorative gables
- buttresses,
- large tall windows
- stained glass,
- fortified structures
- Hanseeatic influence (austere) in north
- more decorative in Poland/Baltic regions
- market squares,
- Netherlands
- Flanders,
- Germany
- Poland
- Countries around the Baltic Sea
- Latvia
- Lithuania
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Ecclesistical
- civic buildings
- Basilicas
- churches
- town halls
- city walls
- residential
- monasteries
- market halls
- guild houses
- St. Mary’s Church Gdańsk
- St. Nicholas Church Stralsund,
- The Town Hall Toruń
- Town Hall Gdansk
- Church of St. Mary Lubeck
- St. Peter’s Church Hamburg
- St. Mary’s Church Helsingør
- Castle of Malbork Poland
- St. James’ Church Lubeck
- St. George’s Church Rugen.
- Inns (Herbergen)
- Hostels
- Guesthouses (Gasthäuser)
- Monastic Inns
- Town Hotels
- Merchant Houses
- Pilgrim Hospitals
- Heiligen-Geist-Hospital, Lübeck (Germany) (1286)
- Hanseatic Merchant houses with lodging – Lübeck, Wismar, Stralsund (13th-15th C)
- Inns in Alter Schwede, Wismar (Germany) (14th C
- Inns in Greifswald & Rostock
- Pilgrim Hostel St George’s Hospital, Hamburg
- Scandinavian pilgrim houses in Denmark, southern Sweden
- roadside inns in Brandenburg, Pomerania, Mecklenburg
Adaptive Reuse
- Hotel Gdansk
- Gotyk House Gdansk
- Romantik Hotel Scheelehof Straslund Germany
- Bergström Hotel Lüneburg Germany
Landmarks
Adapted Visitor Accommodation
