Lutheran Church of Pillau
Destroyed during the assault of 1945; its ruins were cleared away in the post-war years
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Lutheran Church in the Pillau Citadel
Damaged during the fighting within the Pillau fortress in 1945. The ruins were cleared away
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Reformed Church of Pillau
The gable was slightly damaged during the fighting in 1945. After the war the church was used as a warehouse
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Catholic Church of Pillau
Badly damaged during the Second World War, which later led to its demolition
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Reformed Church of Tilsit
Badly damaged during the Second World War; all that remains of it is the tower, without its spire
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Catholic Church of Tilsit
Partly destroyed after WWII. In the 1960s–70s it was dismantled for bricks. Its railings went to make a school fence
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Kreuzkirche of Tilsit (New Church)
It survived the Second World War intact; in the 1970s it housed one of the workshops of the Raduga factory
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Lithuanian Church of Tilsit
It came through the Second World War undamaged, but in the winter of 1950–51 it was set on fire by teenagers
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German Church of Tilsit (Lutheran)
It was intact after 1945. In the post-war years it was stripped for firewood and bricks, and what remained was demolished in the 1960s
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Popelken Church
Popelken church came through the Second World War unscathed and in the post-war years was used as a warehouse and grain dryer
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Schakuhnen Church
After the Second World War Schakuhnen church was intact; the collective farmers used it to store hay
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Schillgallen Church
It came through the Second World War unscathed, but was later blown up and dismantled by the military for building material
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Skören Church
It came through the Second World War unscathed and was used as a grain store until 1978–79
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Lauknen Church
The war passed it by, but afterwards it was no longer needed and was dismantled for bricks. Only the tower survived
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Catholic Chapel in Ragnit
Built in the late 1930s. After the war it was a military depot. Today the building houses an Orthodox church
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Gowarten Church
Built in the first quarter of the 20th century. After the war it was put to other uses
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Groß Lenkeningken Church
Of the handsome church built at the beginning of the 20th century, not one stone was left standing on another
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Alt Lappienen Church
Architecturally striking and famous for its burial monuments. A ruin, yet still standing and waiting
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Rautenberg Church
It was built in the last quarter of the 19th century. At the end of the 20th it was used as a storehouse
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Schillehnen Church
The Second World War passed Schillehnen by. Until the 1970s the church served as a club, then as a storehouse. It was demolished in 1975
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Jurgaitschen Church
An imposing building of the 1840s. In the first half of the 20th century the village was even renamed after it
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Wedereitischken Church
Having survived the Second World War and served as a storehouse after it, the church is once again used for its original purpose
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Willuhnen Church
Neither the church nor the village of Willuhnen has been on the map for a long time
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Kraupischken Church
A church has been known on this site since the 16th century. Rebuilt several times. In ruins since the Second World War
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Kussen Church
The church, which celebrated its 300th anniversary in 1886, was used as a storehouse after the Second World War
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Lengwethen Church
It was built for settlers from Salzburg; after the Second World War it was used as a House of Culture
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Schirgupönen Church
In the 20th century it sank into oblivion together with the village
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Groß Schorellen Church
Little remains of the large and beautiful church built at the beginning of the 20th century
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Groß Warningken Church
In the 20th century the village and its church vanished from the maps
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Soginten Church
All the buildings of the village, the church included, were taken apart for bricks in the 1970s
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Eydtkuhnen Church
Until 1889 the place of worship in Eydtkuhnen was the town's famous railway station. And that is no joke
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Göritten Church
This church had the misfortune of finding itself in the line of fire during both world wars that swept across Prussia
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Bilderweitschen Churches
The village had a Protestant church and a Catholic church. The first was demolished after the war; the second still stands
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Kattenau Church
The history remains, but the church is long gone. Its ruins were demolished in the early 1990s
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Enzuhnen Church
Enzuhnen – Rodebach – Chkalovo: the 20th century and the village's radical renamings wore the local church down
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Kassuben Church
Of one of the most beautiful churches of East Prussia only a fragment of wall and the pastor's house remain
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Mehlkehmen Church
The parish was founded in 1692 by the future first Prussian king, at that time still Elector Friedrich III
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Pillupönen Church
The church was destroyed in the First World War but then rebuilt. The Second World War passed it by.
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Schillen Church
The first church built on the orders of Friedrich I, who ascended the Prussian throne in 1701.
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