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Essential Architecture- Hanseatic city of Rostock St. Michael’s Church |
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Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, north-eastern Germany |
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1476 |
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Hanseatic Brick Gothic |
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Brick |
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Church |
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Contact: Altbettelmönchstraße Opening hour: Monastery: Mon- Fri 10-16h Church: only for church service Entrance fees: free the building: St. Michael’s Church and the Wool Store. Originally the lay brothers’ house and church of the Brothers of the Life in Community, who in 1476 ran the first printing works in Rostock. With its aspect of a single-nave friars’ church, the long brick building combines in an unusual manner the religious and profane premises of the monastic community. After secularisation, the buildings were put to a variety of uses, e.g., warehouse (wool store) and transformer station. After having been damaged in the war, the eastern part of the church was restored in 1956, the western part being restored and converted as a university library in 1999. The library stocks include books originally printed there. |
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Special thanks to www.eurob.org |
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