Karjamaa

The Karjamaa (red) district in the Põhja-Tallinn (yellow) district of Tallinn

Arsenal Center

Karjamaa Park

Karjamaa (in German " Weideland ") is a district ( Estonian asum ) of the Estonian capital Tallinn . It is located in the Põhja-Tallinn district ("North Tallinn"). In the east it borders on the Tallinn Bay ( Tallinna laht ).

Description and history

Elementary school in Karjamaa

The city district has 5,030 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019).

The oldest parts of the area were first mentioned in 1374 under the name Zudenpeyke ("Wolfsköpfchen"). For centuries they served the Tallinn population as grazing land for cattle.

In 1728 a naval hospital of the tsarist army was inaugurated near the Baltic Sea . Only at the end of the 19th century was the area systematically built on. The founding of the large Tallinn cotton factory ( Balti Puuvillavabrik ) led to the construction of workers' apartments in Karjamaa.

Shortly before the beginning of the First World War , a mine port for the tsarist fleet ( Miinisadam ) was built in Karjamaa and in 1923 the armory “ Arsenal ”, which had emerged from a mechanical factory opened in 1910.

In the interwar period , the industry evolved. Oil and gasoline storage facilities and a boat factory were built near the port. In the northeast of Karjamaa, the Tallinn people use the small port of Hundipea ( Hundipea sadam ).

In 1926 the Estonian radio started operating a broadcasting station in Karjamaa. In 1934 a house of prayer of the Methodist congregation was inaugurated. It was expropriated by the Soviet occupation authorities in 1950 and used as a radio station for the Red Army . In 1991 the building was demolished.

In the 1960s, in the first Karjamaa emerged Soviet buildings in panel construction in Tallinn. The district is still characterized by the multi-storey residential buildings, some of which are in poor condition. The Karjamaa Gümnaasium , which opened in 1964 and was originally founded as a Russian-speaking school, is located in Karjamaa .

In 2003, the tsarist barracks made of red brick were converted into modern apartments (architect Rein Murula ). In 2010 the Karjamaa Park was inaugurated. It is adorned with a sculpture of a cow, which recalls the origins of the current name of the district.

Web links

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

• History of Karjamaa (Estonian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tallinn arvudes 2019. Tallinn City Council, 7 August 2019, accessed on 14 August 2019 (Estonian). 

Coordinates: 59 ° 27 '  N , 24 ° 43'  E