The village stands on the bank of the Angrapa river. In 1785 it is mentioned as Nemerskimen. The church was built around 1569 on the orders of Duke Albrecht, who died a year before it opened.
The church was built of fieldstones. It measured 23.38 x 14.25 m. In 1769 a sacristy was added on the east, and a porch in the centre of the north side. The doors were set in round arches, the windows in segmental ones. On the roof stood a wooden turret with a pyramidal roof covered with asbestos-cement sheets. Flat plank ceilings. The church was presumably restored in 1767.
The weathervane on the turret bore the date 1767. The altar and pulpit were combined; the pulpit was built around 1767, the organ around 1770. The church had four bells.
During the Second World War the church was damaged. Only the walls remained. In the early 1960s it was repaired, and it is now used as a house of culture and a library. It is a very simple rectangular plastered building. All the windows are rectangular; on the south side there is an extension housing a boiler room. The central entrance on the west is in a round arch; on the north the door is square.
In front of the building stands a monument to the Soviet soldiers who fell in 1945. To the east stood the old school building, which was dismantled in 1995–97.
Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
