Hullo
Coordinates: 59 ° 0 ' N , 23 ° 15' E
Hullo (Estonian Swedish Holo ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Vormsi ( Vormsi vald ) in Lääne County . The place is in the center of the fourth largest Estonian island Vormsi (German Worms , Swedish Ormsö ), towards the south coast.
Description and history
The place was first mentioned in 1540 under the name Hully , but is probably much older.
The village now has 99 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). As in all Vormsis villages, before the Second World War the majority of the population consisted of Estonian Swedes . They were evacuated to Sweden with the occupation of Estonia by the Red Army .
Hullo is the administrative center of Vormsi Island. There you will find the seat of the municipal administration, the post office, the school and the library of the island. It was founded in 1919 as a Swedish-language library and was expanded to include an Estonian-language library in 1924.
To the west of Hullo is Lake Prestviik . From there, the Prestviigi oja stream flows 1.1 kilometers south until it flows into the Baltic Sea at the bay of Hullo ( Hullo laht ) .
Attractions
Evangelical Lutheran Olai Church
The town's landmark is the Gothic-style Evangelical Lutheran church built from limestone . It is dedicated to St. Olav .
The date 1219 is on today's church door, but this is only speculative. According to legend, the Danish King Waldemar II initiated the construction of the church. The church is only definitely occupied for the 14th century. The older part now serves as a choir . In the 15th century, a wooden nave and a bell tower were added.
The nave of today's stone church was built in 1632 in place of the wooden structure. Traditionally, the island churches in Estonia do not have a bell tower today. In 1772 and 1929 the church was extensively renovated. The masonry block altar has been preserved in the choir.
During the Soviet occupation of Estonia the church stood idle. It was only reopened in 1990. Today it serves as an active center of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation for the entire island.
There are two memorial stones in front of the church. They are dedicated to the Swedish missionary Lars Johan Österblom, who worked on Vormsi in the second half of the 19th century, and the Estonian-Swedish politician Hans Pöhl (1876–1930), who did a lot for the cultural life of the Estonian Swedes.
The old Swedish cemetery of the place is in the immediate vicinity. There are numerous wheel crosses there . They were made by the farmers themselves. The oldest cross dates from 1743, the youngest from 1923.
Next to the cemetery is the monument dedicated to the three soldiers from Vormsi who died in the Estonian War of Independence against Soviet Russia (1918–1920) , which was inaugurated on June 2, 1929 . The monument was not destroyed during the Soviet occupation of Estonia for unknown reasons.
The pastorate of Hullo dates from the 1930s.
Parunikivi
500 meters east of the church is the moss-covered Parunikivi ("barons stone"), a large boulder from Rapakiwi , in a piece of forest . It has a circumference of 20.6 meters. It has been a listed building since 1941.
The boulder serves as a memorial stone for the Baltic German nobleman Otto Friedrich Fromhold von Stackelberg . The heavily weathered inscription is on its east side
- The lasting memory of
- Baron Otto Friedrich Fromhold
- from Stackelberg
- born 5/17 August 1823 d. 15/27 August 1887
- as the last private owner of
- Worms island from hearty
- Dedicated love by his widow
- and his son
Orthodox Church
The establishment of an Orthodox parish in Hullo dates back to 1896. In the age of Russification , almost 130 islanders converted from the Lutheran to the Orthodox faith. The Church of the Resurrection in Hullo was completed in 1899 . The floor plan shows a Greek cross . The cellarless church with its bell tower was built from red bricks in the style of historicism .
In 1937 the services were stopped because there were hardly any Orthodox believers on the island. With the Soviet occupation of Estonia, the church lost its character as a place of worship and was used as a shed. It has largely been in ruins since the 1950s.
The two best-known members of the Orthodox parish were the Estonian horticulturist Johann Spuhl Rotalia (1859-1916) and the father of the composer Cyrillus Kreek , Konstantin Kreek (1852-1916), who worked as a teacher on Vormsi. Both graves are located directly behind the school building in Hullo.
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. 123.
Web links
- Entry in Eesti Entsüklopeedia (online version)
- 360-degree panorama of the Evangelical Lutheran Olai Church
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ http://register.keskkonnainfo.ee/envreg/main?reg_kood=KLO4000909&mount=view#HTTPYkBeHqYLEbP896LTxOsyT4Gzza3Cpe
- ↑ http://www.puhkuseestis.ee/tourist-attractions?sightseeing_id=953
- ↑ http://loodus.keskkonnainfo.ee/WebEelis/infoleht.aspx?obj=yrg&id=-956257052 ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://register.muinas.ee/?menuID=monument&action=view&id=15600
