Doberan Minster

The Doberan Minster is the main Lutheran Church of Bad Doberan in Mecklenburg, Germany. Close to the Baltic Sea and the Hanseatic city of Rostock, it's miles the maximum critical non secular heritage of the European Route of Brick Gothic. It is the ultimate a part of the Ex-Cistercian Doberan Abbey, dedicated in 1368. The first abbey in Mecklenburg, founded in 1171, which turned into also used as the burial website online for the regional rulers, became critical each politically and traditionally. Through the activities of its population, the abbey significantly contributed to the cultural and economic development of Mecklenburg and have become the centre of Christianity on this region.

No other Cistercian abbey in Europe can lay to this sort of huge amount of the original interior last intact. Among the treasures are the main altar that's the oldest winged altar in artwork records, the monumental pass altar and the sculpted tomb of Danish Queen Margarete Sambiria. Even after the reformation and the dissolution of the abbey in 1552, the church endured to serve as the main burial area for the ruling Mecklenburg the Aristocracy as well as the region of worship for the Evangelical-Lutheran congregation.