A parish church without a chancel, with the tower to the west. All that remains from the time of the Teutonic Order is the tower with a fine pointed granite portal (the entrance), as well as the plinth and part of the east wall, built of fieldstone.
Diagonal buttresses at the corners of the building. The tower had a pyramidal roof. In 1854–55 the church was rebuilt to the design of an architect of Karl Friedrich Schinkel's school and divided into three aisles by massive wooden posts. The horizontal ceiling was divided by exposed beams. The altar and the pulpit above it were also in the Schinkel style. The organ dates from 1864.
The church had two bells and carved wooden figures of saints 0.5–1 m high, of Nuremberg workmanship (in the photo above).
Local residents believe that the top of the tower was shot away during the Second World War. The brick walls were taken apart later for farm use.
As of August 1988 the tower survived without a roof, and the fieldstone plinth could still be made out. By 2002 there had been no improvement in the state of the site.
The churchyard around the church has not survived. In 2010 the ruins were handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church, but no repair work is being carried out.
Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
