Brick Gothic - Brick As The Basic Material

Brick As The Basic Material

Since the bricks used were made of clay, available in copious quantities in the Northern German Plain, they quickly became the normal replacement for building stone. The so-called monastic format became the standard for bricks used in representative buildings. Its bricks measure circa 28 x 15 x 9 cm to 30 x 14 x 10 cm, with interstices of about 1.5 cm. In contrast to hewn-stone Gothic, the bricks and shaped bricks were not produced locally by lodges (Bauhütten), but by specialised enterprises off-site.

  • Brick wall in "Gothic bonding" ("gotischer Verband")

  • Glazed brick

  • Shaped brick

  • Black-glazed shaped brick

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