The first church here was probably built as early as the time of Duke Albrecht, between 1544 and 1589. In 1743, under Friedrich Wilhelm II, the church was built that has survived, in ruins, to the present day. It was consecrated on 23 June 1743. A simple rectangular building of fieldstones with brick corners and gables, with a wooden ridge turret.
The turret carried a zinc spire with a ball and a cast-iron weathervane bearing the monogram “FR”.
The window openings were in semicircular gilded arches. The porch was in the middle of the south wall. Inside, flat wooden ceilings. The pulpit and altar were combined; massive galleries (balconies) ran along the walls. For its 300th anniversary (1886) the church received an organ, a bell and a crucifix for the altar (A. Boetticher). The baptismal stone and the altar plate date from 1900. The organ and two bells from 1922 (W. Hubatsch).
When the fighting of the Second World War ended, the church was intact. It was used as a storehouse. The turret has not survived. Nor have the extensions on the west and east. The roof was repaired and covered with tiles. The east gable was destroyed and rebuilt in wood. In 1998 the roof collapsed; as of 2002 only the walls survived.
Photos: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
