It was rebuilt in 1706. It is built partly of boulders and partly of brick. It has very massive walls. The tower is on the west. The entrance to the tower is from the south. The sacristy is on the east.
Inside, the church had a boarded ceiling and very simple furnishings. The large arched windows appeared much later. The altar of 1672 stood behind the pulpit, made in 1690 by the great Christian Klodssey. Of great interest was a wooden crucifix of Christ from the 16th century. The confessional dated from 1729.
After the Second World War the church was intact. It housed a large warehouse. In the mid-1970s the warehouse was moved to other premises, and the church was abandoned.
At the end of the 1970s the roof collapsed. There were plans to use the church building as a club, a shopping centre and so on. But the plans were never carried out; the church was finally abandoned and gradually fell into ruin. By 2000 all that remained was the shell of the tower (without a roof) and fragments of the walls of the church and the choir.
Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
