Kirche Germau, Church ruin in Russkoje, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

Kirche Germau is a church ruin in Russkoje, Russia, with origins tracing back to a chapel from the 13th century. The building features fieldstone walls with brick reinforcements at corners and displays Gothic architecture with thick walls and pointed arches.

The church complex dates back to the time of the German Order around 1270 when an initial stone structure was built as a chapel. The tower was rebuilt in 1565 to serve as a bell tower, while expansion of the entire complex followed in 1596 and a sacristy was added in 1832.

The village name Germau replaced the older Girnov around the time the Amber Chamber moved out of the castle in 1693. The parish counted 2,735 members in the 1925 census and embraced 28 villages, served by 25 Protestant pastors from the Reformation until 1945. In 1995 the Memorial association set a black cross into the surviving wall, inscribed "Zum Gedenken der Verstorbenen des Kirchspiels Germau".

The church ruins lie south of a main road in the countryside and are surrounded by forests and fields. The location is remote and quiet, so visitors should allow plenty of time for exploration and wear warm clothing, especially in cooler seasons.

The vaults under the nave and tower, used as a burial place probably of the Kirpehnen estate owners, were filled in; the legend of a tunnel from them to the estate of Kirpenen (now Powarowka) survives. The oldest surviving masonry is the apse wall, where bullet and shell holes were still visible until 1988.