A plastered brick building, an elongated oval in plan – the duke's favourite form for church buildings, modelled on the church in Dessau. Restored in 1746. In 1781 the tower was demolished, and a handsome half-timbered bell tower was put up a little to one side (in the photo above). A porch on the south side. Large windows with semicircular arches. A flat wooden ceiling, rounded at the edges. The pulpit and the altar date from 1760. The side panels of the altar are in the Rococo style. An organ. Two bells.
After 1945 the church was intact. It was used as a warehouse. In the early 1960s some minor repairs were made to the roof.
The windows on the south side were bricked up. Large square doors were knocked through the west and east walls to let vehicles in. In the 1980s the building was used as a store for chemical fertilisers. By 1988 the church was in a dangerous state. The roof tiles had given way, the supports had rotted, the ceiling had partly collapsed, and by the summer of 1989 most of the roof had fallen in. Only about a fifth of it remained, at the east end. The south porch was still intact. In 1994 the rest of the roof collapsed; in 1995 the walls on the west side fell, and the porch was destroyed too. The remains of the church were left to their fate.
Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
