Luther Church (Königsberg)

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Luther Church 1960 or later

The Luther Church in Königsberg was a church on the cattle market in East Prussia's provincial capital.

construction

Erected in 1910 according to plans by the architect Friedrich Heitmann , the Luther Church was an eclectic combination of neo-renaissance and baroque . The floor plan was a hall building with four stairwells. The main tower was built into the complex, not attached to the building. The staircases were marked from the outside by low spiers, while the main tower on the lower floor formed a large entrance hall and had an open bell house upstairs. The spire was designed like a dome and carried a copper lantern. The interior was a rectangular hall with two side extensions. A gallery ran around it . The whole thing was covered by a flat coffered ceiling . Only slightly damaged by the air raids on Königsberg and the Battle of Königsberg , the church was not repaired and demolished in 1976. It was the last sacred building from German times that was removed in Kaliningrad against the wishes of the population and in protest of the preservationists. A cinema was probably built based on their model and with their material. In Kaliningrad nothing reminds of the former Luther Church.

See also

literature

  • Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . Flechsig, 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. Böhlau, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .
  • Jürgen Manthey : Königsberg - history of a world citizenship republic . Hanser , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-446-20619-1 .
  • Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg. Between Memel and fresh lagoon . Trescher, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-071-X .
  • Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era . Husum Druck, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 .

Web links

Commons : Luther Church (Kaliningrad)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Horst Dühring: The Luther Church in Königsberg i. Pr. - today cinema theater "Moskva"? Königsberger Bürgerbrief XVII (1980), p. 15 f.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Reske: The Luther Church in Königsberg (Pr.) . Königsberger Bürgerbrief, No. 86 (2015), pp. 26–27.

Coordinates: 54 ° 42 '  N , 20 ° 31'  E