Uhm yes
Coordinates: 58 ° 52 ' N , 23 ° 46' E
Ehmja (German Echmes ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality Lääne-Nigula (until 2017: rural municipality Martna ) in Lääne County in Estonia .
Population and location
The place has twenty inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). It is located 17 kilometers southeast of the district capital Haapsalu . The Rannamõisa River ( Rannamõisa jõgi ) flows through the village and flows into the Matsalu Bay.
history
A courtyard near an old castle hill, the Kuradimägi, was probably built in the Middle Ages .
The first documentary mention of the estate comes from the year 1529. At that time the canon Johann Varnsbeke was the owner of the Präbende zu Heymi .
The two-story mansion was built around 1800. In the massive building , Heinrich Caspar Krümmer (1796–1873) , who came from Westphalia , founded the Krummersche Anstalt , a home for boys, at the beginning of the 19th century . Today only ruins remain.
The last private owner of the farm before it was expropriated as part of the Estonian land reform in 1919 was Alexander Baron Hoyningen-Huene.
In 1836 a village school was founded on the site. The later Estonian writer and journalist Jakob Mändmets (1871–1930) taught there from 1889 to 1892 .
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. 58.
Web links
- Description (Estonian)
- Gut von Ehmja (German)