After the old church had been taken down, the foundation stone of a round wooden church building with a small tower was laid on 27 June 1850. But as early as 1905 a new brick church was built in the Gothic style, with a tall tower and buttresses.
The chancel with a handsome triple window and the built-in sacristy were under a single roof. In the altar was a fine ivory crucifix.
The Second World War left the church in Lauknen untouched, but the settlers from the USSR who came to these lands had no use for it, and it was dismantled for bricks. Only the church tower survived, and it was used as a water tower. Of the church itself, all that remained were the foundations, still clearly visible, and a dismantled holy-water stoup.
Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
