It was a rectangular, plastered brick building of the Teutonic Order church type, without a choir, with a tower built in 1685–1695. The cupola of the tower with its belfry was in the Romanesque style. The lancet windows were framed by rectangular blind recesses. Inside there were no columns; the space measured 39.5 x 25 m. The low wooden vault bore rich paintings of the late 17th century, which were restored in 1863. In the south-eastern part of the church a room (sacristy) was partitioned off inside for the pastor.
The altar, richly carved in wood, was framed at the sides by paired columns, with the Crucifixion in the centre; in the upper part was the Resurrection, and above it, in a medallion, the Ascension. It was made between 1647 and 1652.
The central part of the altar.
The pulpit, on the south wall, dated from 1648. The baptismal room was made in 1662, the confessional in 1662. The organ was by Siegmund Casparini, 1737. The large crucifix was the first work of the young Isaak Riga, made in 1676. The galleries, made at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, were finely crafted. Candlesticks in the form of antlers, 1707. Portraits of 17th- and 18th-century pastors, among them Chr. Stephani (1780) and Bishop I. Z. von Borowski (1831). Epitaphs of the early 18th century. Rich altar plate of the 17th–18th centuries. The church had two bells.
The baptismal chamber and the confessional.
The Neurossgarten Church was badly damaged in the fighting of the Second World War.
For a long time its ruins were taken apart for building material. By 1972 only one and a half storeys of the tower and parts of the walls remained. By 1975 it had been completely demolished.
Photo: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de, Anton Ulbrich «Geschichte der Bildhauerkunst in Ostpreussen».
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
