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Starkenberg Church

Starkenberg Church

In the mid-20th century Starkenberg was renamed Krasnoborskoye. The settlement was founded before 1400 and settled in 1404. Coordinates of the church ruins: 54.611491, 20.949738.

A 15th-century parish church without a choir, built of boulders with brick corners. It was renovated in 1779. The upper part of the tower is of wood, from the late 17th century. The weather vane was dated 1692. The porch and sacristy are on the north. The windows are set in semicircular arches. The altar dates from 1699.

In 1945 the church was intact and was used as a warehouse. After the warehouse was moved, it was abandoned. In 1985 the roof collapsed. The state of the church as of 1999: the tower practically intact, with the entrance from the south. The church walls without a roof. The porch destroyed, the sacristy half destroyed.

The church fell into desolation, as did the village: in 1990 only 13 people lived there.

An elderly couple lives in the pastor's house. They managed to stop the looting of the cemetery. The remains of the church today (2018) are even more dilapidated and are falling apart.



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


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