Hiiemetsa
Coordinates: 59 ° 22 ' N , 27 ° 57' E
Hiiemetsa is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Vaivara ( Vaivara vald ). It is located in Ida-Viru County ( East Wierland ) in northeast Estonia .
Description and history
The village has 15 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2012). Until 1939 (according to other sources until 1975) the village was called Repniku .
The place was first mentioned in a document in 1499. At that time the village belonged to the Laagna estate (German: Kuydenurm, Alt-Waiwara or Lagena ). It was completely destroyed during the Great Northern War . In 1726 there were already ten families who had immigrated from Ingermanland .
Well
At the end of the 18th century the Repniku Manor was established in the village. In 1827 there was a riot among the Estonian peasants against the large landowners. In the middle of the 19th century, the first extensive drainage work to improve the land was undertaken on the estate . Large parts of the moor could be drained.
The property later became the property of the family of the natural scientist Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876). Baer's son, the legal scholar Alexander Andreas Ernst von Baer (1826–1914) lived and died in Repniku . The last Baltic German owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform in 1919 was the lawyer Karl Alfred von Baer .
All the buildings fell victim to the heavy fighting during World War II .
Pagan place of worship
The town crosses the road between the Estonian capital Tallinn and the Russian metropolis Saint Petersburg .
A former cult site of the pagan Estonians, a hiiemägi , was found on a hill in the village . Hence the current name of the village. Hiiemetsa means something like "sacred grove".
Web links
- Description and history (Estonian)
