A brick building without a chancel, with a vaulted sacristy to the north and a tower to the west. There are four diagonal buttresses at the corners. Numerous alterations in the late 19th century greatly changed the character of the building. In 1702 the tower was destroyed by lightning, and its upper part was rebuilt in wood. The tower entrance is stepped, with an arched top.
The interior is simple: a nave with niches. A carved altar of 1717. The old crucifix had been moved behind the altar, and the central part of the altarpiece had been replaced. A carved pulpit of 1640. The organ dates from 1854. Three bells.
Local residents claim that both the tower and the church itself were destroyed during the war. But even if the tower was destroyed during the fighting, the roof of the nave remained intact for a long time afterwards.
As of 1990 the walls of the church and the east gable were intact, while the tower was completely destroyed. The buttresses survived. There is no roof. Trees and bushes grow inside the nave. In 2000 the church began to be dismantled for bricks; the gable and parts of the walls were pulled down with a tractor. In 2010 the ruins were handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church.
Photos: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
