The first Protestant church was built here in 1665. It was a half-timbered building with a tower. In 1778 it was dismantled. The present church was built in 1780–82. Originally it had no tower. In 1792 the east gable began to crumble and was renewed. Later the west gable began to deteriorate, and in 1875 it was rebuilt in brick. At the same time a small brick turret was added.
On the south side there was a porch (the entrance), on the east a sacristy. The windows had shallow arches. Inside, a flat wooden ceiling; the altar and pulpit were combined, 1782. The organ of 1857 was the work of Scherweit of Königsberg.
The church survived the Second World War. At first it stood abandoned; for some time it was used as a storehouse.
Then, having demolished the sacristy and the porch, bricked up the windows, and plastered and painted the outer walls, the local residents began to use the church building as a House of Culture and cinema. Brick rooms were added on the south and west.
In December 1995 a fire broke out, and the church building was very badly damaged. As a result, the building was struck off the register as a cultural centre. As of 2003 the surviving roofless shell of the building stands abandoned.
Photos: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
