Dominikanerkloster Prenzlau, Former Dominican monastery and cultural museum in Prenzlau, Brandenburg

The Dominikanerkloster Prenzlau is a former Dominican monastery built in four phases from 1275 to around 1500. Its core is a three-nave brick hall church consecrated in 1343, with a cloister and two-storey brick convent buildings arranged around it. The church has slender two- and three-part tracery windows modelled on Chorin Abbey, cross vaults on octagonal piers, and a later sacristy with cross vaults on a round pier.

Margrave Johann I of Brandenburg granted the Dominicans permission to found a monastery after receiving the Uckermark in 1250; the first monks arrived in 1275, and Johann II is considered founder and benefactor. Built in four phases from 1275 to around 1500, the convent was already among the richest Dominican houses in the march by 1308. A fire in 1519 damaged it, and the community was dissolved in 1545 during the Reformation.

Since 1577 the former monastery church has served the Protestant Nikolaigemeinde, which is why it is now called Nikolaikirche. The complex also belongs to the European Route of Brick Gothic and the German-Polish Monastery Network, and since 1930 it has housed the Kulturhistorisches Museum, the town archive, the library and the Kulturarche event centre.

The complex stands at the southwestern edge of the old town, right by the Steintor, on slightly raised ground above the Unteruckersee. The church has served the Nikolaigemeinde since 1577 and is therefore known today as the Nikolaikirche. The museum has occupied the monastery since 1930, with the town archive, library and the Kulturarche event centre in the same buildings.

The bronze font in the church, made around 1400, came from Prenzlau's Marienkirche. Its foot rests on three stylized animals, and three male figures standing on the lower rim support the bowl, which carries flat reliefs of the Deesis and the twelve apostles under pointed arches.