Kadriorg

Kadriorg Palace

Swan pond in Kadriorg Park

The official seat of the Estonian President

Kadriorg (German name Catherinenthal ) is a northeastern urban district ( Estonian asum ) of the Estonian capital Tallinn .

history

1710 conquered Russia under Tsar Peter I. Estonia from Sweden . In the summer of 1718, the Czar gave the order, between the Klint from Lasnamäe (German Laaksberg ) and the Baltic Sea , the Kadriorg Palace and Park Ensemble as its Revaler summer residence to apply. He named the valley after his second wife Katharina . The planner and architect was the Italian Nicola Michetti (1675–1758), who was later also involved in the planning of the residence in Peterhof . In 1722 550 trees were planted in the park. With the unexpected death of the Tsar in 1725, the project was initially unfinished.

Even in the 19th century, Kadriorg was, despite the palace and park, a Tallinn suburb of the lower classes. Buildings for the construction workers had been erected around the facility, and later also for servants. Since most of the residents of the settlement were Russians and the buildings were built in the style of a Russian village, the district was long known as Sloboda ( Russian village ). It was only gradually that Tallinn's day trippers discovered the beaches on the Baltic Sea. A glamorous seaside resort was created, salons and town houses were built. Kadriorg's final ascent to a finer area came in 1832 when three daughters of Tsar Nicholas I spent the summer in Kadriorg. As a result, members of the royal family repeatedly spent the summer months in Kadriorg.

In 1880 the third Estonian Song Festival took place in Kadriorg . The Russalka monument by the Estonian sculptor Amandus Adamson was inaugurated on the Baltic Sea in 1902 .

Kadriorg today

Today Kadriorg is a preferred urban residential area with numerous lavishly renovated wooden and stone houses from the 19th and 20th centuries. Some museums of Estonian artists ( Johannes Mikkel , Lydia Koidula ) can be found there, as well as some foreign embassies. The official residence of the Estonian President is located in a palace in Kadriorg Park . Kadriorg Palace is now home to the Estonian Museum of Foreign Art. A museum dedicated to his life has been set up in the small former home of Tsar Peter I. In the immediate vicinity is the modern new building of the Kumu , which houses the most extensive collection of Baltic art since the 18th century. The Kadrioru Stadium , named after the district, is the home ground of FC Levadia Tallinn .

Web links

Commons : Kadriorg - collection of images, videos and audio files

59.436388888889 24.796944444444Coordinates: 59 ° 26 ' N , 24 ° 48' E