/ Chernyakhovsk – Insterburg

Sprindt Church

Sprindt Church

Around the Sprindt estate, north of Insterburg, a settlement gradually grew up, which became part of the town before the Second World War. Coordinates: 54.661951, 21.844130.

In the 1930s a church with a half-timbered tower, a parish house and a parsonage were built in the settlement. After the war the church was intact. In the 1950s the tower was taken down. In the 1960s the church was used as a House of Culture, in the 1970s as a storehouse. In 1995 it was abandoned...



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