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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Holstentor, List of Brick Gothic buildings, St. Mary's Church, Lubeck, Roskilde Cathedral, Wienhausen Abbey, St. Mary's Church, Gda sk, Malbork Castle, Trakai Island Castle, Turku Cathedral, Kaunas Castle, Tartu Cathedral, Konigsberg Cathedral, St. Anne's Church, Vilnius, Tower of Kamyanyets, Kaunas Cathedral Basilica, St. Catherine's Church, Hamburg, Oude Kerk, Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Warsaw, Lune Abbey, St. James's Cathedral, Riga, Riga Cathedral, Ebstorf Abbey, Mir Castle Complex, Cathedral Basilica of St. James the Apostle, Szczecin, St. Mary's Basilica, Krakow, Vytautas' the Great Church, Church of St. Gertrude, Kaunas, Dobbertin Abbey, Bremerhaven lighthouse, Doberan Abbey, Medingen, Trakai Peninsula Castle, Gediminas' Tower, St. Peter's Church, Naestved, St. Mary's church, Stralsund, Medininkai Castle, St. John's Church, Helsinki, Marienstern Abbey, Turaida Castle, House of Perk nas, St. Catherine's Church, Lubeck, Hooglandse Kerk, St. Nicholas Church, Vilnius, Arnau Church, Allenburg Church, Eastern Gate. Excerpt: Brick Gothic is a style of Gothic architecture widespread in the Northern Germany and the Baltic region. Its distinction from the preceding Brick Romanesque and succeeding Brick Renaissance is not always sharp. Often, Romanesque buildings were altered or added to in the Gothic style, others were begun while the Romanesque style prevailed, but completed in a Gothic fashion due to the slow building process. Such buildings can be classed equally with both styles. The distribution of Brick Gothic is largely identical with the sphere of influence of the Hanseatic League, with a preponderance in the younger cities east of the Elbe. Besides urban representative buildings, cathedrals and churches, monasteries of the Mendicant Orders and other communities, especially the Cisterci..
