The parish was founded in 1557, and the church was probably built in 1559 (A. Boetticher) or in 1565 (other sources). In 1778 a new one was built using the old foundations. The church was of fieldstones, with a three-sided east end and a sacristy on the east and a porch on the south. A mighty tower on the west: its lower part, of fieldstones, dates from 1686; the upper part, of brick, from 1777–78; the top from 1816. The dates 1686, 1778, 1816 and 1877 are inscribed on the tower. The church had flat boarded ceilings.
It was destroyed during the First World War in 1914. After the war it was rebuilt.
The altar dated from about 1700. The pulpit from about 1670. The organ was made around 1780. Altar plate: two pewter candlesticks of 1689; a silver-gilt chalice of 1645; another, of 1702, of Königsberg workmanship. An oval silver wafer box of 1698. A brass font with fine carving.
After the Second World War the church survived completely. It was used as a storehouse. The roofs of the church, the porch and the sacristy were re-covered with asbestos-cement sheets. On the south side stands a memorial to those who fell in the First World War. Of the dates on the tower only 1770 and .686 have survived. On the south the church windows have been filled with glass blocks; on the north they have been boarded up.
In 1994 the church was repaired with funds from former residents of the village.
In August of the same year a German pastor held a church service, and the former German residents of the village met its Russian residents. Today the church houses the Russian Orthodox Church of St Michael the Archangel.
Photos: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
