Bell tower

Königsberg, Prussia

No longer standing

Demolished or destroyed.

The Bell tower of the Schlosskirche in Königsberg, Prussia, was designed by architect Friedrich August Stüler and originally constructed in 1255. Part of Königsberg Castle's ecclesiastical complex, the tower was devastated during World War II—first by the 1944 bombing of Königsberg and again during the 1945 Battle of Königsberg. After the city's annexation by the Soviet Union and subsequent renaming to Kaliningrad, the surviving ruins were demolished in 1968, leaving few traces of this medieval structure.