On the east and west there were handsome stepped gables; the bell hung in the upper part of the west gable, and there was no tower. The tall interior had galleries (balcony-like emporas) along the walls. The pulpit and altar were combined. Several wooden figures remained from the old church. In 1851 the old organ was repaired and renewed.
During the Second World War this area was not affected by the fighting. And when the first settlers arrived here in 1948, the church and the village were intact. Even the organ in the church was in working order.
The first chairman of the village council was Pyotr Arsentyevich Chernyuk. On his orders, in the early 1950s the church began to be dismantled for its bricks, which were to be used to build some barns. The church was taken apart down to the east wall. But the stacked bricks were never used; instead the residents carried them off for their own household needs.
In early 1990 collective farmers from Golovkino continued the final demolition of the church for bricks to build cellars. But the dismantling proceeded very sluggishly.
As of October 1990, the east wall and the altar annex of the church survived. The old pre-war cemetery is still in use, but it is all overgrown with bushes and trees. Old German gravestones still survive here.
Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
