The slender, 50-metre tower was clad in copper sheets. The interior, with 800 seats, had a vault with pointed curves. The pulpit, altar and font were of wood. The chancel had two mosaic (stained-glass) windows. The church had an organ and three bells. It was painted in 1928 by R. Pfeiffer.
During the Second World War the church was badly damaged and stood half-ruined until 1948.
That same year, 1948, the workshops of the Tekhmash plant were opened, and the half-ruined church building was given to Tekhmash for a nail and wire-mesh workshop. In the same year the "reconstruction" of the church began. The tower with its spire was destroyed and a new roof was put on.
By the beginning of the 21st century only three walls of the church building remained, two of them at the level of the entrance door and the third even lower. The upper part of the building was filled in with white sand-lime brick.
Photos: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
