Kaliningrad Puppet Theatre

Land and funds were donated primarily by the leading tobacco manufacturer Louis Großkopf and his wife, with additional funding coming from the banker and philanthropist Walter Simon, the industrialist Fritz Heumann, and A. Siebert.

The Neo-Romanesque building was designed by the architects Friedrich Heitmann and Franz Krah to serve the residential suburbs of Amalienau, Mittelhufen, and Vorderhufen.

Constructed in Amalienau between 1899 and 1901 and dedicated on 9 September 1901, the church was heavily damaged during World War II.

However, the architect Yuri Vaganov convinced officials that the building could be converted into a puppet theatre.

While the exterior of the building has largely retained its pre-war appearance, the interior has been redesigned to fit the needs of a theatre.