Rosenau Church, Orthodox church in Kaliningrad, Russia
Rosenau Church is a Neo-Gothic brick church on K. Nazarovoy Street in Kaliningrad. Its construction began on 23 July 1914 and was completed from 2 April 1925 to 12 December 1926. The building incorporates material from dismantled sections of the Königsberg fortifications.
Construction began on 23 July 1914, a week before World War I halted work indefinitely. It resumed on 2 April 1925, and the Neo-Gothic church, designed by A. Pflaum, was completed on 12 December 1926. The land was donated by the Schulte-Heuthaus family, the last owners of the Rosenau estate.
The church is on Klavy Nazarovoy Street, named after a Soviet medical orderly killed in the 1945 assault on Königsberg. Since 1990 it has belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church and is dedicated to the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos, a feast observed on 14 October.
The building incorporates materials from dismantled sections of the historic Königsberg fortifications, showing how local resources were reused for construction. Visitors can observe this material reuse when examining the structure closely.
The Neo-Gothic church was built partly with material from dismantled sections of the Königsberg fortifications. The land was donated by the Schulte-Heuthaus family, the last owners of the Rosenau estate.
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