Järve (Kohtla)
Coordinates: 59 ° 25 ' N , 27 ° 18' E
Järve is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Kohtla ( Kohtla vald ). It is located in Ida-Viru County ( East Wierland ) in northeast Estonia .
Description and history
The village has 657 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2010). It is located immediately northeast of the city of Kohtla-Järve on the country road between the Estonian capital Tallinn and the second largest Russian city Saint Petersburg .
The place was first mentioned in 1241 in the Liber Census Daniae . He was then called Jeruius .
A sacrificial place from the Viking Age was discovered near the Laasiku farm in the 1930s.
In 1916 the first trial mining of oil shale took place near the village .
Järve Castle
The Järve estate has been documented since 1497. At that time it belonged to the Lode family and was called Türpsal . The construction of the vassal castle began a short time later, in 1508. It served paved residential purposes.
At that time, the estate belonged to the Paykull family , who remained owners until 1815. The last owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform in 1919 was the noble Baltic German family Dehn .
Local limestone was used to build the castle . The lower two of the former three floors are still preserved. The walls are 1.75 to 2 meters thick. During the Second World War , the buildings were severely damaged by fires.
The Friedenthal country house used to be located very close to the castle. The dramatist August von Kotzebue (1761-1819) lived and worked from 1795 to 1797 .
literature
- Kalvi Aluve: Eesti keskaegsed linnused. Tallinn: 1993, p. 56
Web links
- Description and history (Estonian)
