Kärstna
| Kärstna / Kerstenhof | |||
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 Estonia
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| Circle : | Viljandi / Fellin | ||
| Coordinates : | 58 ° 9 ' N , 25 ° 48' E | ||
| Residents : | 234 (December 31, 2011) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
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Kärstna (German Kerstenhof ) is a village in the Estonian district of Fellin (Viljandimaa province) in the south of the country, about 160 kilometers south of the capital Tallinn . Until the administrative reform in 2017, it belonged to the rural municipality of Tarwast (Tarvastu) . At the end of 2011 the population was 234.
The village is the birthplace of the Estonian poet Hendrik Adamson , who was director of the local elementary school from 1919 to 1927. This is still housed in the manor house of the former Kerstenhof estate on the northeastern edge of Kärstna.
literature
- Hans Feldmann, Heinz von Zur Mühlen, Gertrud Westermann: Baltic historical local dictionary. Part 1: Estonia (including Northern Livonia) (= sources and studies on Baltic history . Volume 8 / I). Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-412-07183-8 , p. 219 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Commons : Kärstna - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics Estonia database , accessed January 11, 2019.