Kalana (Hiiumaa)
Coordinates: 58 ° 55 ' N , 22 ° 5' E
Kalana is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality Hiiumaa (2013 to 2017: rural municipality Hiiu , before that rural municipality Kõrgessaare ) on the second largest Estonian island Hiiumaa (German Dagö ).
Description and history
Kalana (German Kallana ) has eleven inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). The settlement was first mentioned in 1531 under the name ahm Vischorde (this meaning also has the current Estonian name).
The place is at the tip of the Kõpu Peninsula ( Kõpu poolsaar ) directly on the Baltic Sea . The 32.8 hectare nature reserve Kalana ( Kalana looduskaitseala ) extends around the village .
From Kalana to the westernmost point of Hiiumaas, the Ristna area with its beaches stretches over a length of 1.5 kilometers . The Ristna lighthouse ( Ristna tuletorn ) and a weather station are located there.
port
The place on the well-protected bay Kalana ( Kalana laht ) houses a small, mostly ice-free harbor. It was built as an emergency port during the reign of the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf .
The westernmost port of Hiiumaas was badly damaged during the Second World War . Until the beginning of the 1990s it was used for fishing vessels of the local collective farm ; today only private boats moor.
chapel
A chapel is recorded for the year 1698. In 1777 a successor building made of wood was built. The house of God contained two golden fish, a cod and a herring as a “ relic ” . You should secure a good catch for the community. The two metal works of art are said to have been stolen by the envious residents of the larger neighboring island of Saaremaa . They were later replaced by a silver fish. However, it only brought half as much into the nets as its golden predecessor.
In 1939/1940, after the Hitler-Stalin Pact , Estonia had to cede the territory to the Soviet Red Army as a military base. The Estonian lyric poet August Sang saved the silver fish and other religious objects from the chapel to the Estonian National Museum in the summer of 1940 .
The church was presumably demolished in 1945 by Soviet border troops .
literature
- Riho Saard: Kalana. Iidse kalaküla lugu. Tallinn 2007, ISBN 978-9949-15-029-8 .
- 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. 170.
Web links
- Description of the place (Estonian)
- History (Estonian; RTF ; 5 kB)
- Tourism in Kalana (Estonian, English, Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ http://www.estonia360.ee/panorama/kalana_sadam/
- ↑ http://entsyklopeedia.ee/artikkel/kalana_(kõrgessaare_vald)2
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.eestikirik.ee/?p=685
