Hiiu

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Location of Hiiu (red) in Tallinn's Nõmme (yellow) district

Hiiu is a district ( Estonian asum ) of the Estonian capital Tallinn . The district is located in the Nõmme district .

district

The city district today has 3,897 inhabitants (as of May 1, 2010). Its area is 2.5 square kilometers.

The name of the district is derived from the Estonian island Hiiumaa (German Dagö ). The first settler of the original forest area was Andrus Bork from Hiiumaa, who moved to Nõmme as a builder. He built a wooden house in 1886. He put the inscription Hioküla on it as a sign of his origin. Even as the settlement expanded, the name Hiiuküla was retained.

With the narrow-gauge railway in 1913, Hiiu was connected to the Estonian railway network. In the same year, the Hiiu train station was inaugurated. At the end of the First World War, it was one of the largest narrow-gauge railway stations in the world.

The district grew rapidly at the important traffic junction. The architects Ernst Kühnert and Robert Natus developed a general plan in 1925/26 for the expansion of the garden city Nõmme, which included Hiiu as its center.

Hohenhaupt Castle

Glehn's Castle in the Hiiu district

At the end of the 19th century, the Baltic German nobleman Nikolai von Glehn had a castle-like manor, the "Hohenhaupt Castle" ( Mustamäe mõis in Estonian ) built. It is popularly called "Glehn's Castle" ( Glehni loss ). The building with its gardens and parks blended harmoniously into the adjacent urban forest. Parts of the forest were cleared in the 1920s and 1930s in favor of new residential areas.

The building, completed in 1886, has two floors. It is deliberately reminiscent of a medieval castle. The palm house was completed between 1900 and 1910, and the imposing tower in 1910. The "castle" was destroyed at the end of the First World War, but rebuilt in the 1970s. From 1977 it served as the student house of the Tallinn University of Technology (TTÜ). Today, cultural events, conferences and seminars take place in the building. It has been a listed building since 1997.

St. John's Church

St. John's Orthodox Church

The Hiiu Orthodox Saint John's Church was completed in 1923. The Baltic German nobleman von Glehn donated the land to the community. The architect was Aleksandr Vladovski (1876–1950). In the interwar period, the church was a mixed language church: on three Sundays the services were held in Russian and on one Sunday in Estonian. Today it is purely Russian-speaking. After Estonian independence was regained, the building was extensively restored.

Web links

Commons : Hiiu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 59 ° 23 '  N , 24 ° 40'  E