Karjaküla

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Karjaküla ( German Hohenhof ) is a large village ( alevik ) in the Estonian rural community Lääne-Harju (up to rural community Keila ) in Harju County . It has 362 inhabitants (2004).

Emergence

Karjaküla was first mentioned in 1241 as Carias . The Baltic German manor Vana-Karjaküla ( Alt-Hohenhof ) was probably built around the year 1600 and was not completely demolished until the early 1990s, after the manor house had remained uninhabited for a long time.

In 1795 the land was divided and in 1807 a new manor (Uus-Karjaküla, Neu-Hohenhof ) was built. Today's village was built at the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th century.

Cultural history

Karjaküla is best known for the Estonian writer Eduard Vilde , who lived there between 1880 and 1890. His novel Mäeküla piirnamees (published 1916) is partly set in the manor house there. Vilde's novel takes up numerous true events of the place. A birch from this period, which the writer is said to have often sat by, is still there today.

The great-grandfather of the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin , Abraham Petrovich Hannibal (1698–1781), who came from Ethiopia and was Peter the Great's private secretary, lived in the Rahula manor near Karjaküla since 1762 . In 1746 he was given the country seat for his services. At times he was governor and general of Tallinn . Other traditions claim, however, that he bought the Karjaküla manor in 1732 and lived there until 1741 (see web links)

literature

  • Eva Verma: Der Mohr Peters the Great in: "Wherever you come from ..." Binational couples through the millennia Dipa, Frankfurt 1993 ISBN 3-7638-0196-0 (pp. 68–72)

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Coordinates: 59 ° 20 '  N , 24 ° 23'  E