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Essential
Architecture- Hanseatic city of Rostock
St. Michael’s Church |
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location
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Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
north-eastern Germany |
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date
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1476 |
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style
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Hanseatic
Brick Gothic |
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construction
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Brick |
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type
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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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links
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Special thanks to
www.eurob.org |
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www.essential-architecture.com
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