St. Elisabeth's Church, Königsberg

St. Elisabeth's was first documented in 1420[1] as the chapel of Sackheim's Saint Elizabeth Hospital, administered by a Catholic convent.

After the Reformation, Königsberg's Lutheran Polish- and Lithuanian-speaking communities attended St. Nicholas' Church in Steindamm.

Disputes between the two groups were common, however, and once the Jesuits began to express interest, the Lutheran Königsberg Consistory granted St. Elisabeth's to parishioners of Lithuanian native language as their own church in 1603.

The first Lithuanian-speaking pastor at the church was Lazarus Sengstock (1562-1621), a native of Lübeck who learned the language in Memel.

The former church finally served as a pension office before the destruction of Königsberg during World War II.