Kasari (Lääne-Nigula)
Coordinates: 58 ° 44 ' N , 24 ° 0' E
Kasari (German Kasargen ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality Lääne-Nigula (until 2017: rural municipality Martna ) in Lääne County in Estonia .
Population and location
The place has 49 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). It lies on the lower reaches of the river of the same name ( Kasari jõgi ).
An old bridge crossed the river by the village. It was replaced by a reinforced concrete bridge in 1904 . At 308 meters, this was the longest of its kind in the world when it was completed.
Good from Kasari
In the 16th century, before the Livonian War , the Kiwiszell Bishop's Court was established . The manor Kassarien later developed from him .
The name of the estate (as well as the river) is derived from its owner at the time Kasari (Kasjan) Baranoff († 1648). Baranoff was a Tatar military leader who defected to the Swedish troops. King John III gave him the estate in 1590.
The Baranoff family owned the estate until 1842 . The last private owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform in 1919 was the Baltic German nobleman and lawyer Alexander von Bodisco (1861–1923).
literature
- 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 , pp. 193f.
Web links
- Entry in Eesti Entsüklopeedia (online version)
- Description (Estonian)