It is an elongated rectangular building without a chancel, with an ancient sacristy added on the north and a porch on the south. Of rubble stone, with brick corners. The architect was Claus Gall. The tower was added in 1586. In 1767 it collapsed and was not rebuilt because of the poverty of the inhabitants. In 1609 the vaults of the nave collapsed and were replaced with a wooden ceiling. In 1771–72 the nave was extended westwards by two windows. The church was repaired in 1832 and in 1905–06. During the last repair a new tower was built on the site of the south porch, as well as gables on the west and east.
Altar of 1684. Pulpit of 1575. Organ of 1856. Both bells of 1753, richly ornamented (according to A. Boetticher; according to W. Hubatsch, one bell of 1753 and the other of 1796).
The fighting of the Second World War did not reach this village.
After the war the church was used for farm needs. Without supervision and care the building fell into a sorry state and began to fall apart in the 1970s. In the early 1980s the roof collapsed and part of the tower was taken apart.
In 1988 the church was in a deplorable state. Half of the tower had been taken apart. A square door had been crudely knocked through on the west side, and ramshackle sheds had been built on to the east. The only things that still adorned this church were its west and east gables.
In 1993 the west gable collapsed; the roof is completely gone.
From 1999 local residents actively took the church apart, but this has now stopped. The grounds and ruins of the church have been tidied up and make a quite pleasing impression by local standards.
Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de, Mikhail Ogorodnikov (2018)
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
