title: Kõrkküla, Lääne-Viru County
text: # Kõrkküla, Lääne-Viru County
  
  Kõrkküla is a village in Viru-Nigula Parish, Lääne-Viru County in northeastern Estonia. It's located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, by the Tallinn–Narva (Saint Petersburg) road (part of E20), just southeast of Aseri. Kõrkküla has a population of 40 (as of 10 January 2012).
  
  Kõrkküla was first mentioned in 1466.
  
  There is a limestone cross beside the road to memorialize a Russian boyar Vassili Rosladin, who was killed there in 1590.
  
  