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Grünheide Church

Grünheide Church

In the mid-20th century Grünheide was renamed Kaluzhskoye. Construction of the church began here in 1881, and it was consecrated on 21 May 1882. Its coordinates: 54.804419, 21.906916.

In the Romanesque style. Small double buttresses at the corners. The nave is set crosswise and is very tall. On the north side, a massive altar niche; on the south, the tower. To the west and east, three huge round-arched windows each. There is a window in the altar niche.


Grünheide Church

During the fighting of the Second World War the tower may have been damaged.

But the nave and the altar annex were intact. It was used as a store for building materials. A large square door was knocked through on the south side. By 2009 it had been demolished completely.



Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de


Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.