Hosby (Lääne-Nigula)
Coordinates: 59 ° 2 ' N , 23 ° 31' E
Hosby (German Hosbi ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural community Lääne-Nigula (until 2017: rural community Noarootsi ) in Lääne County in Estonia .
Population and location
The place has fifteen residents (as of December 31, 2011). It is nine kilometers north of the district capital Haapsalu .
The place name is Swedish, as the village was part of the traditional settlement area of the Estonian Swedes until the Second World War .
history
The there was first mentioned in a document around 1540 under the name Hoszbw . In 1615 he is listed as Hössby , in 1798 as husby . The place gained special importance as the seat of the church and the pastorate of the Noarootsi peninsula.
Church and Pastorate
church
The single-nave church bears the name of Saint Catherine . The church, which has been Evangelical Lutheran since the Reformation , was first mentioned in a document in 1500. Probably stood on the site since the 13th or 14th century fortress church, what is still the loopholes remember.
The late Gothic church with its characteristic wooden roof was badly damaged during the Livonian War , but was then rebuilt in the course of the 17th century. The church tower also dates from this period. A burial chapel was added at its foot in the 18th century. The church was heavily redesigned between 1862 and 1873.
The baptismal font on the south portal dates back to the pre-Reformation period . The pulpit with the evangelists is a work by the baroque master Elert Thiele from 1656. On the east wall of the choir there is a baroque coat of arms epitaph made of dolomite for the pastor Martin Winter; the Haapsalu sculptor Joachim Winter created it in 1630.
In the choir there is a memorial plaque for the Swedish missionary Thure Emanuel Thorén (1843–1930), who worked on the Noarootsi peninsula in the 1870s. In the church there are two royal autographs on stone: one commemorates the visit of the Swedish Crown Prince Gustav Adolf in 1932, the other of the visit of the Swedish King Carl XVI. Gustav 1992.
graveyard
In the old cemetery by the church there are numerous wheel crosses and the grave monuments of the Noarootsi lords. The graves of famous personalities such as the painter Johann Karl von Ungern Sternberg (1773–1830) and the genealogist Otto Rudolf Constantin von Ungern Sternberg (1812–1870) are located in Hosby .
Pastorate
The pastorate building dates from the 17th century. It is one of the oldest surviving wooden buildings in the region.
Monument to the Estonian War of Freedom
Nearby is a memorial that commemorates those who died in the Estonian War of Freedom (1918–1920) in Estonian and Swedish . It was erected in June 1935, destroyed during the Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1946 and rebuilt in 1990.
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 . Böhlau, Köln / Wien 1985 (= sources and studies on Baltic history. Volume 8/1), ISBN 3-412-07183-8 , p. 122.
Web links
- Entry in Eesti Entsüklopeedia (online version)
- Noarootsi Church (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ http://www.turismiweb.ee/ee/company/EELK_NOAROOTSI_P%C3%9CHA_KATARIINA_KIRIK/7740/
- ↑ Mart helmets : Eestimaa kirikute teejuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 5-89920-297-1 ), p. 39