Church or chapel
Käina Church
German: Keinis
With 600 seats, St Martin's in Käina was once the largest church on Hiiumaa. The stone church was built around 1500 under Bishop Johannes III Orgas, whose carved coat of arms hung over the door. Standing on soft clay, it began to sink and had to be propped up with massive buttresses in the 1660s. On 14 October 1941, during the German landing on Hiiumaa, an incendiary bomb crashed through the choir and the church burned with its organ, altars and a medieval statue of St Nicholas. It was never rebuilt; the ruins served as a German stable, a fuel store, a shooting range and a hide-collection point before being conserved since the 1990s.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
600 istekohaga Käina Martini kirik oli kunagi Hiiumaa suurim. Kivikirik ehitati umbes 1500. aastal piiskop Johannes III Orgase ajal, kelle vapiga raidkivi oli portaali kohal. Kirik seisis viirsavil ja hakkas vajuma, nii et 1660. aastatel tuli seda toestada võimsate tugipiilaritega. 14. oktoobril 1941, Saksa vägede dessandi ajal Hiiumaale, kukkus läbi kooriruumi süütepomm ning kirik põles koos oreli, altarite ja keskaegse püha Nikolause puukujuga. Seda ei taastatud: varemed olid sakslaste hobutall, kütuseladu, lasketiir ja toornahkade vastuvõtupunkt, kuni neid on alates 1990. aastatest konserveeritud.