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The irst brick buildings in Pomerania, Pomerelia (modern North-Eastern Germany and North Poland) and Lower Silesia (Western Poland) date from the late 12th century. Since the 13th century this building material became prevailing in the ambitious architecture. An important role for this innovation and the increase of the new building material was played by the monasteries which were founded in Pomerania since the 1150s, as well as some important castles with large brick towers which were established in that region in the decades shortly after 1200. Danish inluence seems to have been important for the mediation of the building material and technique to Pomerania. Archaeological, building-and art-historical research in Pomeranian abbeys (Stolpe/Peene, Grobe, Belbuck, Kolbatz/Kołbacz, Eldena, Bergen, Altentreptow, Oliva/Oliwa and other), further also from castles (in particular Haus Demmin, Stolpe/Oder) and village churches (for instance Altenkirchen on Rügen) deliver interesting information for understanding the chronology, the initial points and the directions of the technical-stylistic inluences and the origin of brick in this region. A similar situation can be observed in Lower Silesia, where the earliest brick buildings are found in Cistercian monasteries (Leubus/Lubiąż, Trebnitz/Trzebnica). This paper gives an overview of the research. Also the archaeological evidence for the production of brick and the artistic-architectural design with bricks are stressed as central topics.