Hüti (Hiiumaa)

Coordinates: 58 ° 54 '  N , 22 ° 30'  E

Hüti​

Estonia

Hüti is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality Hiiumaa (2013 to 2017: rural municipality Hiiu , before that rural municipality Kõrgessaare ) on the second largest Estonian island Hiiumaa (German Dagö ). The place is 18 kilometers southwest of the island's capital, Kärdla .

description

Hüti (German Hütti ) has no residents today (as of December 31, 2011).

The Tihu suurjärv lake is located near the village . At 85 hectares, it is the largest lake in Hiiumaas. The Tihu suurjärv is very shallow with an average depth of only one meter.

Glassworks

Monument at the site of the former glassworks

The name of the village Hüti comes from the German word " Glashütte ".

From 1628 to 1664, Estonia's first glassworks stood in Hüti on an area of ​​2,500 m² . The Swedish Count Jakob De la Gardie (1583–1652) had window glass, bottles and pharmaceutical glass made there. Stained glass and milk glass were also produced in Hüti.

The first master in Hüti was a certain Jost Wentzell. In 1634 the internationally known master Pauell Gauwkunkell followed from Sweden. He put a new glass furnace into operation that worked until 1664. From 1649 the master Jürgen Kelpien worked in Hüti, from 1651 Wilhelm Breidenstein from Germany.

The conditions for the production of glass were favorable: Hüti was at the intersection of the road network, the transport across the Baltic Sea was easy to organize, enough wood was found in the forests to run the ovens, the fine white sand necessary for the production was available and the labor of the native Estonians cheap. However, the glass market in the Baltic region became more and more saturated in the 17th century.

After Jakob De la Gardie's death in 1652, his son Axel Julius De la Gardie (1637–1710) initially continued to run the glassworks. Due to the strong competition from Sweden and Russia, it had to close a few years later because it was no longer profitable.

Today a small monument in Hüti reminds of the glassworks at its historical location: a dead tree with glass bottles stuck on the branches.

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. 125.
• Maks Roosma: Hüti klaasikoda Hiiumaal. Hüti klaasikoda Hiiumaal. Jooni klaasimanufaktuuri tegevusest Eestis XVII sajandil. Tallinn 1966.

Web links

• Description of the place (Estonian)
• History (Estonian) ( RTF ; 7 kB)
• Exhibition on the glassworks 2003 ( Hiiumaa muuseum )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http://www.puhkaeestis.ee/et/huti-klaasikoja-asukoht