Lübeck cathedral

Lübeck Cathedral is one of the first large structures built in the style of brick Gothic in the Baltic region. The length of the cathedral – a record for red brick churches – is 130 meters.

The customer for the construction of the cathedral was the founder of the city Heinrich Lev. The temple appeared in the XIII century in the Romanesque style. A few years later it was rebuilt into a Gothic church. The border between both parts of the cathedral is visible to the naked eye: the first part of the building rests on rectangular supports, and the second - on round Gothic columns.

The decoration of the cathedral takes the second place among all the Lübeck churches (after the Church of St. Mary). A tourist attraction of the cathedral are stone sarcophagi in the funerary chapels of the cathedral. In the center of the main nave is a 17-meter triumphal cross made by the artist Bernt Notke, an astronomical clock and a bronze font of the XV century.