Kreuzkirche (Königsberg)
The Kreuzkirche is a church in the Königsberg district of Lomse . It was built from 1930 to 1933 according to plans by Arthur Kickton as a place of worship for the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . The facing consists of colored Cadin majolica brick . A monumental niche is embedded between the twin towers, which is covered with a cross made of Cadin majolica on a colored background.
The church survived the war slightly damaged. Afterwards it was used as a car repair shop and fishing supplies factory. After a fire in 1988, the church was handed over to a Russian Orthodox community. The subsequent alterations have brought the octagonal towers back to the nave since 1990. Today the church is towered over by surrounding high-rise buildings. The tower clock is now on the Catholic Königsberg Church of the Holy Family .
The district of the Kreuzkirche parish was separated from the old town mother parish and declared an independent parish on January 1, 1925. From 1925 to 1945 consistorial councilor Johannes Wien (* 1882) was the parish priest.
literature
- Parish Church Council (ed.): Festschrift for the inauguration on Sunday Jubilate, May 7, 1933: The Kreuzkirche zu Königsberg Pr. , 1933.
- Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
- Richard Armstedt: history of the royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia . Reprint of the original edition, Stuttgart 1899.
- Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia . 3 volumes, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X
- Jürgen Manthey : Königsberg - history of a world citizenship republic . Hanser 2005, ISBN 3-446-20619-1
- Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg , Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-071-X
- Baldur Köster: Königsberg: Architecture from German times. Husum Druck, 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 20.6 ″ N , 20 ° 31 ′ 22.2 ″ E