Ilmatsalu
Coordinates: 58 ° 23 ' N , 26 ° 33' E
Ilmatsalu (German Ilmahzal ) is the name of two villages in the Estonian municipality Tartu (until 2017 rural municipality Tähtvere ) in Tartu County .
Description and history
The village of Ilmatsalu alevik has 385 inhabitants (as of June 1, 2006). It was the capital of the rural community of Tähtvere.
The village of Ilmatsalu küla is very close by. It has less than a hundred inhabitants.
From the time of the order until the middle of the 19th century, the former manor was owned by the noble Baltic German family von Löwenwolde . The last owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform of 1919 was Woldemar von Knorring .
The estate was first mentioned in a document in 1557. The simple mansion in the classicism style was built in the first half of the 19th century. The central part of the building is characterized by a two-storey central projection with three large windows on both the front and the rear . The house was heavily rebuilt in the 1970s. Today the building is the headquarters of an agricultural company, the successor to the Tartu model owchose . Some of the manor's outbuildings have also been preserved.
Ilmatsalu was best known in Livonia and Estonia for its brick factory. It produced between 1879 and 1961.
Personalities
The most famous son of the place was the Estonian poet Karl Eduard Sööt (1862–1950). He spent his childhood and youth on the Kurvitsa farm in Ilmatsalu.
Web links
- Description of the place (Estonian)
- Gut Ilmatsalu (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 , pp. 129f.
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), p. 242