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The Neuendorf Church

The Neuendorf Church

The church was built in the second half of the 14th century. It was badly damaged by a violent hurricane at the beginning of the 20th century and in 1918–19 was practically rebuilt.

The church was a rectangular building of fieldstone and brick, plastered, with a rectangular choir and a four-storey tower. Inside, it had a vaulted wooden ceiling. The altar and pulpit were made of wood and joined by means of an old chest on which a seated Madonna of the 14th century was depicted. Relief carvings on themes from the life of Jesus had also survived from the same period.

The altar furnishings dated from the 16th–18th centuries. The organ was relatively new. The church had three bells, one of which dated from 1504.


Altar of the Neuendorf Church

The church was a daughter church of Steinbeck (Rybnoye, Guryevsk District) and had no priest of its own.

Organ of the Neuendorf Church


During the fighting of the Second World War the church was only slightly damaged. After 1945 the wooden interior fittings were torn out, and soon afterwards the roof fell into disrepair. Later the church itself was dismantled. Today its foundations can barely be made out.

Of the village there remain two or three houses and many sheds standing on the site where the church used to be.


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