The parish that arose here separated from the Tilsit and Heinrichswalde churches in 1902. In 1910 a new church was built and consecrated on 21 August. It is a plastered building with a half-projecting tower, on whose roof an onion-shaped dome was set. On the east there was a small altar room, with a sacristy attached to it on the south. The pulpit with the altar stood against the east wall of the vaulted interior. The organ and the bells dated from the time of construction.
After the Second World War the church was intact. At first it was not used at all. Later it was converted into a granary. The dome was demolished.
As of 1990 it was a very well-preserved building with bricked-up windows and an asbestos-cement roof. The modestly decorated wooden door to the tower was intact. The cemetery has not survived. On 1 March 1994 the church building was handed over to the Orthodox Church, but no repairs were carried out. In 2010 the church was cleared and prepared for the start of repairs. In the 2020s its brand-new dome on the tower gleams from afar.
Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
