Kaliningrad / Königsberg, Kaliningrad Oblast Russia
[Roman Catholic / Lutheran]
The church was in the center of the capital of East Prussia. The foundation was laid in 1264 and a new building built from 1504-37. The first Lutheran preaching in East Prussia was in this church. One of the largest churches in East Prussia the site later became Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz. The church closed due to structural weakness in 1824 and was demolished. Johannes Luther, eldest son of Martin Luther, was buried there. The new neo-Gothic Old City St. Nicholas church was completed in 1845. The church had many buttresses and was unconventionally sited. An air raid damaged the church in 1944. Later assault broke the dome, walls and collapsed arches. The ruins were removed and the street widened in the 1950s.