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Wilhelmsberg Church

Wilhelmsberg Church

Until 1725 this settlement was called Klickuschen. It received its name from King Frederick William I. He also renamed the village of Schakuneschken, three kilometres to the south, Friedrichsberg (Pskovskoye, Ozyorsk District). After the Second World War Wilhelmsberg was renamed Yablonovka. Coordinates of the church ruins: 54.414737, 22.156384.

The church was built in 1725 of fieldstones with rubble, with brick corners. Its plan is cruciform. There are six round-arched windows on each side of the longitudinal part of the church. The central gable is of brick. Until 1832 the church was shared, which is why there were two sacristies, on the north and the south. All three doors are set in round arches.


Interior of Wilhelmsberg Church

There was a half-timbered tower with two bells and an eagle as its weathervane. The pulpit and altar were combined. The organ, by Terletzki of Königsberg, was built in 1887.

Plan of Wilhelmsberg


The church survived the Second World War and was used as a grain dryer. The half-timbered tower has not survived. The church is in a state of neglect. The side doors and all the windows are boarded up. By 2006 only the walls remained.

Next to the church a pretty little house has survived, possibly the pastor's house.



Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de.


Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.