Illuka (village)

59.236389 27.489167Coordinates: 59 ° 14 ' N , 27 ° 29' E

Illuka (village)

Illuka is a village ( Estonian küla ) in Ida-Viru County ( East Wierland ) in northeast Estonia . Until 2017 it was the main town of the rural community of the same name ( Illuka vald ). Since the dissolution of the rural community in 2017, Illuka has belonged to the rural community of Alutaguse .

Description and history

Illuka (German Illuck ) has 88 inhabitants (as of 2011). It is 15 kilometers from the county capital, Jõhvi .

In 1424 the place was mentioned for the first time under the name Somovere . There is evidence of a small Orthodox chapel owned by local Russian farmers in 1782 . In 1930 the wooden Evangelical Lutheran church of Illuka was consecrated.

Good Illuka

The historical estate of Illuka was first mentioned in 1657. In the second half of the 19th century it belonged to the two brothers Oscar and Eduard Dieckhoff, who inherited the estate from their mother, Karoline Dieckhoff (née von Bellingshausen).

Today's single-storey stone mansion was built between 1885 and 1888 under the direction of the owner Oscar Dieckhoff. It was built according to plans by the architect Friedrich Modi from Rakvere in the style of historicism . A high neo-Gothic central project with a stepped gable and turret rises in the facade .

In 1912 it was bought by the noble Baltic German family von Nottbeck . With the Estonian land reform of 1919, the last private owner, Claus von Nottbeck , was expropriated. In 1939, when the Baltic Germans were resettled, he and his family came to Germany via the Warthegau . The local school has been located in the building since 1921. It is used as a starting point for bear and elk hunts .

The spacious park is in the English style .

Web links

Description and history (Estonian)
Manor and Manor Illuka (Estonian)

Individual evidence

↑ Tutvustus ( Memento of 21 August 2012 at the Internet Archive )
↑ Heinz von zur Mühlen (ed.), Baltic historical local dictionary, Part I: Estonia. Cologne 1985, p. 128f.
↑ On the brothers Oskar and Eduard Dieckhoff cf. Dirk-Gerd Erpenbeck, Dieckhoff families in the Baltic States and in Russia, in: Ostdeutsche Familienkunde 44/3 (1996), pp. 225–231.
^ Master builder and architect Friedrich Ferdinand Modi, * April 13/25, 1839 Bromberg / Prussia, + after 1901. - In Wesenberg since 1874. I. oo Rappel September 15, 1867 Henriette Louise Treublut, * August 24, 1848 St. Petersburg, + July 31, 1897…; II. Oo Wesenberg October 18, 1898 Anne Auguste Mortenson (* January 25, 1865), cf. Church registers for Rappel / Rapla and Wesenberg / Rakvere.
↑ Ivar Sakk: Eesti mõisad. Rice yuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 9985-78-574-6 ), p. 189
↑ http://www.eestigiid.ee/?SCat=15&CatID=0&ItemID=1665

[1] Tutvustus ( Memento of 21 August 2012 at the Internet Archive )

[2] Heinz von zur Mühlen (ed.), Baltic historical local dictionary, Part I: Estonia. Cologne 1985, p. 128f.

[3] On the brothers Oskar and Eduard Dieckhoff cf. Dirk-Gerd Erpenbeck, Dieckhoff families in the Baltic States and in Russia, in: Ostdeutsche Familienkunde 44/3 (1996), pp. 225–231.

[4] Master builder and architect Friedrich Ferdinand Modi, * April 13/25, 1839 Bromberg / Prussia, + after 1901. - In Wesenberg since 1874. I. oo Rappel September 15, 1867 Henriette Louise Treublut, * August 24, 1848 St. Petersburg, + July 31, 1897…; II. Oo Wesenberg October 18, 1898 Anne Auguste Mortenson (* January 25, 1865), cf. Church registers for Rappel / Rapla and Wesenberg / Rakvere.

[5] Ivar Sakk: Eesti mõisad. Rice yuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 9985-78-574-6 ), p. 189

[6] ttp://www.eestigiid.ee/?SCat=15&CatID=0&ItemID=1665