On August 3, 1945, the Prague Regional National Committee seized the church from the German Evangelical Church and gave it to the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. The German Evangelical Church was formally dissolved retroactively to May 4, 1945, by a law of May 6, 1948, its property transferring to the Czechoslovak state. The first Czech service was held on October 14, 1945. After disputes, the Czech Brethren began using a different prayer house in the e.. Read more »arly 1950s, leaving the church to the Hussites. The state (represented by the Local National Committee in Nový Bor) officially transferred the church to the Czechoslovak Hussite Church on April 16, 1958. They used it occasionally until the mid-1970s. Due to poor maintenance, the church's four corner turrets were demolished in the late 1950s. The roof was repaired in 1974, and the church was slated for "cultural and educational" purposes, possibly as an exhibition or concert hall. In 1976, the Hussite Church returned the church to the Nový Bor Municipal National Committee, which used it for storage. A renovation project was planned for 1982-1988. On February 20, 1982, around 3 PM, three boys around nine years old entered the church through a broken window and started a fire. After adding a can of paint to the fire, it spread to stored materials around 4 PM. The boys escaped, but the fire engulfed the church, destroying the roof, interior, organ, and stored materials, leaving only the outer walls.
