The interior was designed in a single style. Above the altar was an impressive crucifix, flanked to the right and left by life-size bronze figures of John and Paul.
For a long time the Maraunenhof congregation belonged to the Tragheim Church (the Tragheim parish). On 1 April 1928 it became a separate, independent congregation. In the 1930s the New Tragheim Church was renamed the Duke Albrecht Memorial Church.
During the storming of Königsberg on 6–9 April 1945 there was no heavy fighting in the area of this church, and it remained practically intact, apart from some fallen roof tiles. After the end of the war it may have been used by the local German population for Christian sacraments and rites.
Interior of the New Tragheim Church.
After the German population was deported, the church was looted and abandoned. For a long time it was not used at all. Then there was a plan to turn it into a cinema while keeping the tower and placing on it a sculptural group of a peasant woman and a worker. But the plan was never carried out.
Afterwards the church began to fall into ruin for lack of proper maintenance and repair. Until the mid-1960s its tower rose above the district. At the end of the 1960s, after it had been declared structurally unsafe, the church began to be dismantled; in 1970 it was blown up, and in 1972 it was finally cleared away. Tram tracks were laid across the site where the church had stood.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
