Visited: June 14, 2014
St Martin’s Lutheran Church in Käina is just ruins now.
The church was built around 1500 to replace the wooded church built in the 1200s. You can see from the picture from the sign though that it was once beautiful. Even the ruins are beautiful.
The church was built on unstable clay, and so the arches on the side are to shore up the walls. The building was burned in 1941 by German tracer bullets. It is being conserved in ruins by the congregation, which still meets.
St Martin’s Lutheran Church in Käina is just ruins now.
The church was built around 1500 to replace the wooded church built in the 1200s. You can see from the picture from the sign though that it was once beautiful. Even the ruins are beautiful.
The church was built on unstable clay, and so the arches on the side are to shore up the walls. The building was burned in 1941 by German tracer bullets. It is being conserved in ruins by the congregation, which still meets.
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