The Protestant church was built on the orders of Duke Albrecht in 1525–75 or (according to Toeppen) only in 1589. In 1719 it burned down. In 1721 the foundation stone of a new one was laid, and it was consecrated in 1726. The church was oriented south to north. The end was polygonal, with a sacristy attached to it. In 1770 the tower burned down after a lightning strike. It was rebuilt in the same year. The church measured 42.8 x 13.65 m. Inside it was very plain. Flat wooden ceilings; the altar was combined with the pulpit. An organ with fine Rococo ornament. The church was restored in 1814 and again in 1857–59.
During the Second World War the church was damaged. No repairs were carried out, and it quickly fell into ruin; in the 1950s it was demolished.
The Catholic chapel (pictured above) in Nesterov has survived and now houses the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit.
Photos: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
