The upper part of the altar was crowned by a sculpture of a young woman, flanked by sculptures of St Michael and St Joseph. In the porch stood a large stone crucifix. In the 1920s the church was restored and the shape of its tower simplified.
The church was built in the Gothic style with a polygonal chancel end. It was an ornament to the town.
After the Second World War the church building was partly destroyed, but the tower survived. The church’s iron railings were used for the fence around School No. 1. In the 1960s–70s the church was dismantled for its bricks, which were used to build the workshops of School No. 1 as well as fences. The tower stood until 1983 and was then blown up. In 1992 the site where the church had stood was handed over to the Catholic parish, and in 1993 construction of a new church began on the old foundations. The new church is built in a modern style.
Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
