St. Nikolai Cathedral Greifswald

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.

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Dom Greifswald

Domstraße 54
17489 Greifswald

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Estonian Sinfonietta: Luminosities
at 04.05.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Estonian Sinfonietta: Luminosities

Compositions from Estonia
Dresden Kreuzchor
at 03.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Dresden Kreuzchor

Special concert caspardavid250
Bach at night
at 03.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Bach at night

Organ music in the cathedral at night
Bach at night
at 04.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Bach at night

Organ music in the cathedral at night
For Caspar David
at 04.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

For Caspar David

Evening of encounter
Bach at night
at 05.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Bach at night

Organ music in the cathedral at night
Spiritual morning music
at 05.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Spiritual morning music

Johann Sebastian Bach: Thou shalt love God thy Lord BWV 77
Night prayer
at 05.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Night prayer

Three motets by Mendelssohn Bartoldy
Bach at night
at 06.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Bach at night

Organ music in the cathedral at night
Spiritual morning music
at 06.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Spiritual morning music

Fanny Hensel: Job
Symphonic sounds
at 06.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Symphonic sounds

Immanuel Ott: Hor ch'e tempo di dormire (world premiere); Niels Wilhelm Gade: Symphony No. 1
Bach at night
at 07.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Bach at night

Organ music in the cathedral at night
Spiritual morning music
at 07.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Spiritual morning music

Johann Sebastian Bach: Heavenly King, be welcome BWV 182
To the sea ...!
at 07.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

To the sea ...!

Youth dance project
Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
at 08.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

Concert
Morning prayer
at 08.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Morning prayer

... in your light we see the light
Festive service
at 09.06.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Festive service

Johann Sebastian Bach: Praise, Jerusalem, to the Lord BWV 119
Sea of Ice: Hope & SIGNUMs
at 26.07.2024
Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, Domstraße 54, 17489 Greifswald

Sea of Ice: Hope & SIGNUMs

World premiere of the composition "Eismeer" by Christian Jost