The tower was built in 1881–84. A plastered brick building, with the altar section and sacristy on the east and the porch on the north. The windows are set in round-arched openings with rectangular surrounds. Church plate: a six-footed chalice of 1659; an offering plate; a silver chalice, gilded inside, of Tilsit workmanship, 1763, with its paten; a spoon bearing initials, a crown and the date 1677. A Russian ceremonial vestment left over from the Seven Years' War. The vestment was embroidered with ornament around the collar.
After a fire in 1904 the church was restored and reconsecrated on 9 December 1906. A new organ was installed. The altar dates from the 17th and 18th centuries. Three bells.
The temporary church in Kaukehmen (1905).
In 1947 the church was intact and the organ was working. Then it came to be used as a warehouse, and the church tower as a water tower. Then, in the 1980s, the church roof collapsed. The upper part of the tower spire had been destroyed even earlier, when the cross was being removed.
Condition as of 1990: the main church building is roofless; only the walls have survived. The porch is also roofless. Only the sacristy and the five-storey tower are in relatively good order. A storage building has been added to the church on the south side.
In 1992 a new roof was put on; the church long stood unused, but by 2000 it had been adapted for storing farm machinery. In 2010 a restoration project for the church was drawn up for the Russian Orthodox Church.
Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
