Avinurme (village)

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Coordinates: 58 ° 59 ′  N , 26 ° 52 ′  E

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The village of Avinurme ( Avinurme alevik ) is located in Ida-Viru County ( East Wierland ) in northeast Estonia . Avinurme is the capital of the rural community of the same name Avinurme ( Avinurme vald ).

Description and history

The village has 847 inhabitants (as of 2010). It is located on the Avijõgi River . The name of the place comes from the river. The historical German name Avinurmes is Awwinorm .

Avinurme was first mentioned in 1599 as Avinorma . The Estonians consider the place the mythological home of the Estonian legendary hero Kalevipoeg .

Today there is a library, a small museum and a high school in the village.

Sonda – Mustvee railway line

From 1926 to 1972 the 62.6 km long narrow-gauge Sonda-Mustvee railway ran between Sonda and Mustvee and stopped in Avinurme. The last passenger train ran on May 31, 1972, the last freight train on June 15, 1972. 178.5 meters of this railway line and a bridge were reconstructed. A locomotive, a passenger car for the café and the platform were renovated.

Good Avinurme

In 1666 the Avinurme manor was built. In the 18th century, the Baltic German publicist and later pastor Johann Georg Eisen (1717–1779) worked as a private tutor on the estate . He was one of the most committed opponents of serfdom in the Russian Empire.

The Russian Tsar Paul I (1754–1801) later gave the estate to Karl Heinrich Küchelbecker, who came from Bautzen .

The most famous son of the place is Karl Küchelbecker's son, the poet Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797–1846). He spent his childhood in Avinurme from 1797 to 1808. The later Decembrist tried in December 1825 to shoot Grand Duke Michael (1798–1849), the brother of the Tsar. The 28-year-old Küchelbecker was commuted to prison and in 1835 to exile. He eventually died of tuberculosis and went blind as a beggar in Siberia . His story Ado , in particular , contains a lot of Estonian material and a longing memory of his homeland.

A memorial stone in the park of the former estate commemorates Küchelbecker. At the Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum , his name is on the marble plaque next to that of his friend and classmate Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837).

church

Avinurme Church

The Evangelical Lutheran church in the parish of Avinurme was built from 1906 in the style of historicism and consecrated in November 1908. It was created according to plans by the Riga architect Wilhelm von Stryk (1864–1928). The church offers seats for 700 believers.

An organ from Germany has been playing in the church since 2006 . In 2009 three new church bells were installed, which also come from Germany.

Battle of Avinurme

On 19./20. September 1944 a heavy battle between German and Soviet soldiers took place at the church. Numerous Estonians also fought on both sides of the front. A massacre took place of wounded Estonian soldiers who had fled to the church. In the fall of 1964, a memorial was erected in front of the church to commemorate their fate.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.avinurme.ee/?s=15
  2. ↑ Muuseumrong yes nostalgiasõidud. puiduait.ee, accessed December 18, 2016 (Estonian).
  3. ^ Association of Central European Railway Administrations (ed.): Station directory of the European railways . (formerly Dr. KOCH's station directory). 52nd edition. Barthol & Co., Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1939.
  4. ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004 ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 , p. 199
  5. ^ Thea Karin: Estonia. Cultural and scenic diversity in a historical borderland between east and west. Cologne 1994 (= DuMont art and landscape guide ) ISBN 3-7701-2614-9 , p. 175
  6. ↑ http://paber.maaleht.ee/?page=Uudised&grupp=artikkel&artikkel=16290
  7. ↑ http://www.eestigiid.ee/?CatID=91&ItemID=688