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Böttchersdorf Church

Böttchersdorf Church

The church dates from 1400. The settlement existed even earlier. In the mid-20th century Böttchersdorf was renamed Sevskoye. Coordinates of the church ruins: 54.398298, 21.108115.

The church is a single-nave building of brick and fieldstone, without a chancel. The tower is to the west, the porch to the south, the sacristy to the north. The east gable consists of five sections. The tower dates from the 16th–17th century; the tower door is arched. The sacristy has a small stepped gable and a door with a Gothic lock. The south porch dates from 1850. There are buttresses at the corners of the building.

Inside there is a flat wooden ceiling from the second half of the 17th century. The walls bear paintings from the early 17th century. The organ dates from 1857. The church had three bells.


Altar of Böttchersdorf Church

The altar, by the sculptor Valentin Hoffmann, dates from 1645. The pulpit is in the peasant Renaissance style (see above). A richly decorated confessional from 1700.


In 1946 the church was intact. As of 1964 it was in very good condition and used as a warehouse.

In 1986 it began to decay because the tiled roof had given way. In 1989 the local administration started dismantling the church; what remained were the tower, fragments of the walls and the east wall without its gable. The weathervane and the weathercock on the tower were still intact. As of 2000 the situation had hardly changed. In 2010 the church was 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.