Jämejala
Coordinates: 58 ° 23 ' N , 25 ° 35' E
Jämejala ( German Althof, Rickhof ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the Estonian rural community Pärsti ( Perst ) in the central Estonian district of Viljandi . Jämejala is the main town in the rural community. Today it has 457 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011).
location
Jämejala is located north of Viljandi ( Fellin ) on a northern branch of the Viljandi glacial valley, the so-called Karula ürgorg . The village lies in the valley of the small Valuoja stream.
Psychiatric hospital
One of the most important psychiatric hospitals in Estonia is located in Jämejala . It was founded in 1897 as a private institution under the name Anstalt Marienhof . With the Estonian land reform in 1919 , the mental hospital became state property.
The clinic was expanded in the 1960s with a special section for mentally ill offenders. In 1984 a new building complex was completed. The hospital now has space for 221 beds. 71 of these spaces are reserved for judicial briefings. There are also special departments for combating addictive diseases and tuberculosis .
Konstantin Päts
The first President of the Republic of Estonia , Konstantin Päts (1874–1956), spent two weeks at the end of 1954 in the Jämejala Psychiatric Hospital . A few days after the Soviet occupation of Estonia in June 1940, the new Stalinist rulers had Päts deposed. He was born on July 30, 1940 along with his family inside the Soviet Union deported . Päts was subsequently held in Soviet insane asylums without any medical findings. After Stalin's death, Pats was unexpectedly briefly returned to Estonia in late 1954. The reasons for this have not yet been clarified by historians.
- Päts was only allowed to stay in Jämejala from December 18-29, 1954. Its return to the home country caused a sensation. The news of his stay in Jämejala did not remain secret, and people began to gather at the hospital who wanted to remember the former president with food and clothing packages. The belongings did not get through to the old man regardless of the attempts. From Jämejala, Päts was taken by car to Tartu train station and from there on by train to the psychiatric hospital in Buraschewo near Kalinin , where he died on January 18, 1956.
park
The park adjoining the clinic is well known. It contains one of the oldest ash trees in the country with a height of 18 m and a circumference of 5.62 m. On the right bank of the Valuoja brook there is a cult stone on a small slope , which probably dates from the 1st millennium BC. It is 1.35 m high, has a circumference of 13.4 m and has over fifty small depressions.
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. 139.
Web links
- Official website of the psychiatric clinic (Estonian and English)
- Jämejala Landscape Park (Estonian)
- Description of the place (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ http://www.vmh.ee/index.php?page=psyhhiaatriakliinik_tutvustus
- ^ Martti Turtola : President Konstantin Päts . Tallinn 2002, p. 307 (translation by Carsten Wilms)