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Pokraken Church

Pokraken Church

The church community was founded in 1862. The church was built in 1894–96 in the Neo-Romanesque style, with a square tower. After the Second World War Pokraken, having spent several years as Weidenau, was renamed Leninskoye. Coordinates of the church: 55.113327, 21.691843.

On both the north and south sides the building had three triple windows in round arches. A sacristy was added to the altar niche on the south. The tower and the altar niche had small, narrow buttresses. The pulpit was to the right of the altar niche.


Ruin Keepers at Pokraken Church

An altar with a crucifix. The organ was built by Terletzki of Elbing.

A surviving fragment of the murals of Pokraken Church

A fragment of the surviving murals on the church walls.


Staircase in the tower of Pokraken ChurchThe granite staircase inside the tower.


After the war the church survived and was used for farm purposes. No repairs were carried out on the building for several decades, which led to the decay of the tile roofing and the rafters, both on the church and on the tower. The roof has collapsed, but the walls are still standing. In 2021 members of the volunteer movement "Ruin Keepers" held a clean-up day on the church grounds (pictured above).



Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de (the postcard at the very top), the volunteer movement "Ruin Keepers" (2021, second from the top), Mikhail Ogorodnikov (2015, the two at the bottom).


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