Of the town that once stood where the village of Slavskoye is now, not even the street grid has survived
The pastor of this church, built on a military training ground in the mid-1930s, was called up into the army in 1941
The church is recalled by trees planted in a circle and the base of the tower
From roughly the end of the 14th century the chief ornament of this church was its Gothic east gable
The sacristy of this medieval church held many carved figures of saints dating from the very beginning of the 18th century
After the war this characteristic brick building on a high boulder plinth found itself in the border no-man's-land
Neither the beautiful medieval tower nor the red granite holy-water stoup could save it
Not the most striking church in the region, with a rather ordinary fate: it was either blown up or taken apart
In the first half of the 1980s it was blown up and taken apart for its bricks
There is a certain logic in the fact that the unremarkable main body has sunk into oblivion while the unusual tower has stood firm
The church's history is linked with the name of Martin Luther: his daughter was married to the local pastor and is buried here
One of the most interesting churches in the southern part of the region — and not only because of its architectural merits
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