European Route of Brick Gothic

In the 1990s, Gottfried Kiesow, founder and long-standing chairman of the board of the Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz ("German Foundation for Monument Protection"), launched the initiative Wege zur Backsteingotik ("Routes to Brick Gothic").

The initiative culminated in a dedicated exhibition on show in the Hanseatic cities of Greifswald, Rostock, Stralsund, Wismar and Lübeck in 2002.

In 2008, the association was nominated as “Trend Brand of the Year” by Germany’s largest cultural magazine “KulturSPIEGEL” and the Causales agency, and in 2010 it was awarded the gold medal at the leading European trade fair for the preservation of historical monuments, the “denkmal” fair in Leipzig, for outstanding achievements in the field of monument conservation.

Since then, its network and activities have been ongoing, including a Europe-wide Day of Brick Gothic on every third Saturday in June.

[6] The European Route of Brick Gothic publishes a cultural travel guide "Following the traces of the Middle Ages and the Hanseatic League".