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Kreuzkirche of Tilsit (New Church)

Kreuzkirche of Tilsit (New Church)

The church was built in the Gothic Revival style to a design by the building councillor (Baurat) Siebold of Bethel near Bielefeld and consecrated on 6 February 1911. Coordinates: 55.077856, 21.885609.

A brick building on a fieldstone foundation. The tower had a pointed spire. The church had a small altar extension with a stepped gable and small buttresses.

The interior had massive brick galleries on square piers and a vaulted ceiling. The walls and vaults were decorated with handsome ornament.

Kreuzkirche

An altar with a crucifix, behind which a triptych on religious themes was painted on the wall. To the left of the altar was the pulpit. The church had an organ and three bells.

Kreuzkirche

After the Second World War the church was intact. In the 1970s its interior was used as one of the workshops of the Raduga factory. The entire upper part of the church was demolished.

Inside and out there were countless alterations, and many additional windows were knocked through. Various buildings were attached to the church on all sides.


Photos on this page: Museum of the City of Königsberg.


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