The new Evangelical church was built by Duke Leopold von Dessau in 1769 as a simple fieldstone hall building, without a tower. The free-standing bell tower west of the church, half-timbered below and wooden above, was put up in 1794. It bears an old wrought-iron weathervane with the coat of arms of the Altstadt. To the south and north there are four window openings each, set in shallow arches. The sacristy is to the south, a small porch to the west. Inside, flat wooden ceilings. The altar of 1737 (according to W. Hubatsch, the altar dates from 1638 and the pulpit from 1639) and the pulpit of 1738 are combined. Three bells.
The first organ was bought in 1830 from the former Altstadt Church. It was later sold when an 18th-century organ was bought from the Reformed Church in Memel in 1836.
Part of the village was destroyed; most of it was occupied by a military unit, and the church stood on its grounds. After the Second World War it was intact and used as a warehouse. By 1990 the west porch had been knocked down. The sacristy remained intact. The bell tower has not survived. The roof was re-covered with asbestos-cement sheeting. After the military left the village in 1995, the church and the village were wrecked by local residents. By 2000 only the walls of the church remained.
Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
