Hageri
Coordinates: 59 ° 10 ' N , 24 ° 39' E
Hageri (German Haggers ) is a village ( Estonian alevik ) in the Estonian rural community Kohila in Rapla County . It is located thirty kilometers from the Estonian capital Tallinn .
Location and history
The village has 148 inhabitants (as of September 2008). Its area is 1.05 square kilometers.
Since the 13th century, Hageri has been the center of the parish of the same name with its fifteen manors and six additional goods . The parish was first mentioned in 1241 as parochia Haccriz .
Presumably also in the 13th century, Danish missionaries built the first church dedicated to St. Lambertus . It remains the only Lamberti church in Estonia.
In 1892 a new religious building in neo-Romanesque style was built on the foundations of the old church. The Estonian architect Ervin Bernhard also made use of Russian Orthodox style elements.
Sons of the place
- Otto Friedrich Ignatius (1794–1824), Baltic German painter, writer and composer
- Waldemar Thomson (1897–1945), German Baltic theologian
- Paul Karp (1905–1981), conductor and trombonist
Web links
- Map of the parish of Hageri (Estonian)
- Hageri Church (Estonian)
- History and art-historical description of the Lamberti Church by Hageri (Estonian)
The church of Hageri
The church of Hageri
Old pharmacy
Stone cross in the churchyard
Churchyard gate
Shovel in the churchyard
