The parish's second church was opened in the early 16th century, but by 1546 it had already ceased to exist. The church that survives in Borchersdorf was built on the site of the old church in 1735. By 1807 it too had become dilapidated, and in 1814 it was restored. Inside it had a pulpit of 1734 supported by a figure of Moses. In the sacristy there was a stove with tiles bearing the coat of arms of Baron von Collas. The church had two bells, a large one and a small one.
After the First World War a memorial plaque bearing the names of fallen local men was placed on the east wall in their memory. Above the plaque is a mosaic panel donated by Count Dönhoff, depicting a sower (in the photo at the very top).
Volunteers of the Ruin Keepers movement clean up the grounds of Borchersdorf Church.
During the Second World War the church came under artillery fire, which damaged the south wall and the dome of the tower.
In 1990 the church was used for agricultural purposes, and a wooden shed had been built onto it on the south. The sacristy on the east was demolished. The annex on the north was rapidly deteriorating because of the damaged tile roofing. All the doorways into the tower and the porch and on the sacristy side were altered into rectangular ones. The roof was in a decrepit state and had caved in in places, and by 1995 it had collapsed completely. In 1999 the east wall collapsed, but the mosaic dedicated to the soldiers who fell in the First World War miraculously survived in its left-hand part.
In the cemetery by the church a 19th-century gravestone still survives.
Photos on this page: Mikhail Ogorodnikov (2019, at the very top), "Ruin Keepers" (2021, at the very bottom).
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
