The text mentions the small village of Tejkuty (Teukitten), which lies three kilometres from Fischhausen station [in what is now Kaliningrad Oblast - editor's note]. The appearance of the village and the iron cross known as the St Adalbert's Cross are described. The history of the place and a possible connection with the travels of St Adalbert are recalled (Source: "Tygodnik Illustrowany", Warsaw 1885, Series 4, T:6, pp. 31-32, after: Digital Library of the University of Lodz).

A modernised reading of the text

Monument to St Adalbert near the village of Tejkutami (Teukitten) on the shore of the Baltic Sea.

Three kilometres from the Fischhausen (formerly Bischofshusen) station of the Königsberg-Pilavian iron road, lies the small village of Tejkuty (Teukitten). There we find a few neat white-painted country houses and a rectory, all surrounded by greenery.

The parish priest, who is extremely kind, leads us to a mountain above the sea, where there is an 8-metre high iron cross on 5 stone steps, called "St Adalbert's Cross" by the local people.

According to legend, a thousand years ago there was a sacred grove of pagan Prussians here, the entrance to which was forbidden to the unconsecrated. Here, in the year 997 after the birth of Christ, St Adalbert, having sailed from Gdansk with two companions, Gaudent and Benedict, walked for five days among the Prussian people, converting them to the faith of Christ. Exhausted, he entered a nearby grove for a rest. There, immersed in a dream, a band of Prussians attacked him and their priest pierced him with a spear. Stabbed with seven lances, he falls dead. His two companions were released so that they could take this sad news back to their homeland.

After the Teutonic Order conquered the Prussian lands, Master Ludwig v. Lanilsee built a chapel in honour of St Adalbert here in 1422-1424, which soon became a pilgrimage destination. In 1523, at the time of the Reformation, the chapel was turned into the parish church of the St Adalbert community.

In November 1696, during a thunderstorm during a festive service, the old chapel, which had not been repaired for a long time, collapsed without crushing the worshippers gathered in it, thanks to the presence of the parish priest Henri Basolot, who informed them of the imminent danger at an early stage.

On the site of this chapel, a wooden cross was erected in 1822, which gave way in 1835 to the iron one that still exists today.

At a distance of 100 metres from the sea, 35 feet above its level, in the middle of the remains of the foundations of the old chapel, surrounded by scrub and pasture, stands a tall iron cross on 5 high stone steps up to 8 metres high. The plaque on the north side of the following reads:

"Bischof
St. Adalbert
starb hier
den Maertyrer
Tod.
für das Licht
des Christentums."

Whereas below:

"Bishop
St Adalbert
died here
with a martyr
death
for the light
of Christianity.
Wielopolska
1831."

It was supposed to have been commissioned in Königsberg by a Countess Wielopolska, who lived in Fischhausen in 1831, and erected by Count Dolin in 1835.

The view from under the cross is magnificent: the foaming sea on one side, the Frisian bay on the other, and the fertile, densely populated land of Samland.