Darkehmen received its town charter on 10 January 1726. Its church stood at roughly the same place as the present one. It was half-timbered, with twelve windows. In 1725 the foundation stone of a new church was laid, and in 1754 it was consecrated. It was built opposite the present church. In 1836 the old church was closed, as it constantly required costly repairs.
In 1842 the foundation stone of the church that still stands today was laid. It was consecrated in the same year. It measures 36.6 x 17.2 m. It is a brick building with a tower and a small altar niche in the style of Schinkel. The church has twelve large semicircular windows, each with three small windows of the same shape above it. The ceilings inside are flat. Along the walls on both sides run two-storey galleries reaching as far as the altar.
The organ was acquired in 1752 from the Tragheim Church in Königsberg. It was repaired while being installed in its new place. The church had one bell.
After the Second World War the church was intact and was hardly used at all. It stood boarded up, but the lack of supervision led to damage to the tiled roof; the rafters rotted and the walls began to crumble. The church was fenced off. The gallery structures survived inside. There was a bell in the tower. At the end of the 1990s the roof collapsed. In 2015 the tower spire, which had stood askew for many years and could have fallen at any moment, had to be dismantled.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
