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Ponarth Church (german: Ponarther Kirche) was a
image:Ponarther Ev Kirche.jpg, Ponarth Church
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Ponarth Church (german: Ponarther Kirche) was a Protestant
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church
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in the Ponarth Ponarth
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quarter of Königsberg
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, Germany
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.
The brick Neo-Gothic
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church of Ponarth was built in May 1896 and dedicated on 23 July 1897; its construction was championed by the mayor, Robert Hoffmann, and the director of the brewery, Eduard Schifferdecker.Albinus, p. 246 The Protestant congregation was separated from that of Haberberg Unterhaberberg
Oberhaberberg
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History
The hill Haberberg located south of Hintere Vorstadt ...
in 1905 and became its own parish. Its pastors were Johannes Joachim, Leop. Beckmann, Gerh. Symnanowski, and Helmut Hildebrandt.
The church was lightly damaged during World War II
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and was in continual use by the remaining Germans until their expulsion
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in 1947. Residents of Kaliningrad
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, Russia
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, used it first for storage and then as a gym. In the early 1980s the roof tiles were replaced with cement. Since 21 September 1992 it has been a Russian Orthodox
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church.
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References
* * 1945 disestablishments in Germany 19th-century churches in Germany Churches in Kaliningrad Former churches in Königsberg Gothic Revival church buildings in Russia Churches completed in 1896 Church buildings converted to a different denomination Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Kaliningrad Oblast {{Germany-hist-stub