The two lower storeys of the tower date back to the time of the Order; they are built of brick and fieldstone in Gothic bond. On the second storey, on three sides, there are four pointed blind windows; above came half-timbering and a pyramidal roof of flat tiles.
The spire of the tower carried a small flag. The building itself is of brick mixed with fieldstone, in Gothic bond.
The west (east?) gable has handsomely profiled lesenes. The east gable of the nave has seven pointed niches. On the south side of the chancel there are two ancient round-arched windows. There are no windows on the north side. The east gable of the chancel has three whitewashed blind windows, between rectangular ribs crowned with pinnacles. The sacristy is attached to the chancel on the north. Cross vault. Around the nave and chancel there are four buttresses. A new porch on the north side of the nave. A beautiful pulpit of 1633. Organ of 1853. In the cemetery, on the east side of the chancel, there are two lindens as ancient as the church itself.
When the fighting of the Second World War ended, the church was intact.
By 1990 the half-timbered part of the tower had not survived, and the two brick storeys were covered with the simplest slate roof. For lack of care the church was rapidly falling apart. The sacristy on the north side of the chancel had been taken apart. The new porch on the north of the nave had also been completely destroyed, and the doorways from the sacristy into the chancel and from the porch into the nave had been bricked up. The north-east corner of the nave collapsed because of the decrepit roof and the falling tiles.
Wooden structures were built onto the south side of the church. The church was used for farm needs.
Abandoned in 1993, it continued to deteriorate; neither the medieval frescoes discovered on its walls nor the press reports about them saved the monument. Today only fragments of the walls remain.
Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
