Andja
Coordinates: 59 ° 27 ' N , 26 ° 27' E
Andja (German Addinal ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Sõmeru ( Sõmeru vald ) in the Estonian district of Lääne-Virumaa .
Location and description
Andja is twelve kilometers northwest of Rakvere . The village has 23 inhabitants (as of 2005).
The settlement was first mentioned in 1241 under the name Adnæias . The farm and the village of Adnyel are occupied for 1406 . In 1489 the village was dissolved in the Hofland. In the Middle Ages, the courtyard was expanded like a fortress in the style of a vassal castle and surrounded by a high limestone wall.
Good Andja
From 1406 to the end of the 17th century, the manor was owned by the noble Baltic German family Wrangel (also Wrangell ). The last owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform of 1919 was Julie Baroness Ungern-Sternberg .
In its later form, the manor was mainly built in the 1770s on the important road between Rakvere and Kunda . The baroque main house with its jacket chimney burned down as early as 1780 and was only partially restored. Most of the manor's historic buildings are now in ruins.
Worth seeing
The fifteen-meter-long stone bridge over the Toolse River ( Toolse jõgi ), which was built around the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, is worth seeing . In 1804 the Andja windmill was built in the Dutch style. The upper part of the mill is no longer preserved.
literature
- Baltic historical local dictionary. Part 1: Estonia (including Northern Livonia). Started by Hans Feldmann . Published by Heinz von zur Mühlen . Edited by Gertrud Westermann . Cologne, Vienna 1985 (= sources and studies on Baltic history. Volume 8/1), ISBN 3-412-07183-8 , p. 3.
Web links
- Description (Estonian)
- Gut Andja (Estonian)
- Andja Stone Bridge (Estonian)