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No stone? Bake it 🧱

North Germany had almost no building stone, so medieval builders made bricks, millions per church. Guess the length of a “monastery brick”:

A) 18 cm B) 28 cm C) 48 cm

Answer in the reply.

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Pencil-style illustration: a lay brother in a brown habit beside a domed brick kiln with a fire inside, a long drying shed full of raw bricks and a stack of red bricks.
October 28, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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sidewalksafari.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy Jennifer | Sidewalk Safari @sidewalksafari.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 22
A Baroque door wearing a Gothic arch.
The pointed brick arch in Lüneburg dates to the city's medieval salt-trade era. The Rococo-inflected door surround (pilasters, cartouche panel) came later, probably the 18th century. The two stone relief roundels […]

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A pale blue decorative wooden door set within a pointed red brick Gothic archway, featuring white trim and a small fanlight window.
June 22, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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Tangermünde, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

#photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2021

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©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2021 Image of the medieval, Hanseatic city of Tangermünde, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Skyline on the left, canal, dyke in the centre, riparian wetland of the River Elbe on the right.
August 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM