Church of the Holy Family, Kaliningrad

The Church of the Holy Family is a neo-Gothic brick church in Kaliningrad, the former Koenigsberg

It was built in partnership Berg district near the Pregel between 1904 and 1907 by the architect Friedrich Heitmann. The large, three-aisled hall church was one of the new houses of worship for the Catholics flowing Königsberg. The parish was attached a branch of a St. Catherine's monastery. During the Second World War, the church remained largely intact. First, it served the Red Army as a military hospital; then it has been misused as a fertilizer stock. At the beginning of the 1980s the church was halfway prepared and served first as a concert hall of the Kaliningrad Philharmonic Hall. This made the installation of a new, outstanding organ possible. The new organ with 44 registers and 3600 pipes made ​​even the best organist of the St. Petersburg Academies come to Kaliningrad. The clock tower was built here by the Cross Church.