The tower stands to the west, a sacristy with a handsome gable to the north, buttresses, and a porch to the south. The tower is very tall, with five rows of blind windows and gables to the east and west. On the east side of the main body of the church there is a very interesting four-stepped gable.
In 1682 the church was repaired. It had four bells. The altar dates from 1682, the pulpit from the 17th century, the organ from 1861.
A shell hole in the upper part of the tower and a huge breach in the church's east gable show that the church came under artillery fire during the Second World War.
After the war the church was used as a warehouse. In the 1980s the roof tiles gave way, and the church began to decay rapidly.
Condition as of 1989: the tower is practically intact (except for the shell hole and the mark of a glancing hit on the south side). The weathervane and the cross on the tower have survived. A cross has also survived on the church's east gable. The sacristy is ruined, but its gable remains. The walls are deteriorating because the roof tiles are falling off. The buttresses are intact. As of 2000 the terribly neglected church is not used at all. The wooden beam that has held up the east gable for 50 years may break at any moment, bringing the crumbling gable down. In 2003 the beam broke, and the gable and part of the roof collapsed. There are medieval frescoes under the whitewash. In 2010 the church was handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church.
Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
