Church or chapel
Karuse Church
German: Kerrus
St Margaret's in Kinksi village, Karuse, is one of the oldest churches in western Estonia, a single-nave fortress church of the 13th century. Its vaulted choir and two-bay nave were probably built before 1270, the year when Master Otto von Lutterberg of the Livonian Order, thought to be its builder, was most likely buried here. The pointed west portal is crowned with a trefoil like a triskelion and a quatrefoil, and the door can still be barred with a beam. The churchyard holds rare trapezoid gravestones and ring crosses from the 13th–17th centuries, and inside are a 15th-century font and a pulpit by Christian Ackermann from 1697.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Karuse Margareeta kirik Kinksi külas on üks Lääne-Eesti vanimaid pühakodasid – 13. sajandi ühelööviline kindluskirik. Selle võlvitud kooriruum ja kahevõlvikuline pikihoone rajati arvatavasti enne 1270. aastat, mil siia maeti tõenäoliselt ordumeister Otto von Lutterberg, keda peetakse ka kiriku ehitusisandaks. Teravkaarse lääneportaali tippu kaunistavad triskeletaoline kolmikleht ja nelikleht ning ust saab endiselt riivpalgiga sulgeda. Kirikuaias on ainulaadsed trapetsikujulised hauakivid ja 13.–17. sajandi rõngasristid, kirikus 15. sajandi ristimiskivi ja Christian Ackermanni 1697. aasta kantsel.