Greifswald Cathedral is one of the most beautiful sacred buildings in northern Germany. With its 100 m high tower, it towers over the Hanseatic City of Greifswald. From its tower gallery, you have an impressive view as far as the Island of Rügen.
The slender baroque onion dome with two lanterns replaced the Gothic spire in 1652. The University of Greifswald was opened in St. Nikolai in 1456. Today it is the venue for the Greifswald Bach Week.
Protestant cathedral, first mentioned in a document in 1280, nine-and-a-half bay long brick basilica with a choir closed on three sides, chapel extension and sacristy on the north side, 1st half of the 15th century incorporating the previous building of a five-bay, three-aisled brick hall church, extended around 1400 to include a four-and-a-half bay choir and surrounding chapel wreath.
The painter Caspar David Friedrich made the church in his home town world-famous. The parish church only became a cathedral when the episcopal see of the Pomeranian Protestant Church was moved from Szczecin to Greifswald in 1947. The tapered tower with its onion dome and four corner towers is particularly striking. The light-flooded basilica is the venue for the annual Greifswald Bach Festival.
