Kassari (village)
Coordinates: 58 ° 48 ' N , 22 ° 50' E
Kassari is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality Hiiumaa (until 2017: rural municipality Käina ) in the district of Hiiu ( Hiiu maakond ).
The place is located on the island of Kassari of the same name , the fifth largest island in Estonia. Kassari (German Kassar ) has 81 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011).
Good from Kassari
The Kassari manor was built at the beginning of the 18th century. In 1765 it was mentioned in a document under the name Aunack , in 1782 as Kassar , "which was previously called Aunack". From 1765 the estate was owned by the noble Baltic German family Stackelberg . The first owner of Kassari was Heinrich Caspar von Stackelberg (1702–1778). The last owners before the expropriation as part of the Estonian land reform in 1919 were baron and baroness Justus and Sofie von Stackelberg.
The single-storey wooden mansion dates from the 18th century. It burned down in the 1920s.
The von Stackelberg family had a park built around the former estate, which is still preserved today. It contains tree species that are rare for the region. A chestnut avenue led to the former manor house. The Stackelberg family also breeds Roman snails in Kassari, which is rare for the region, with its relatively mild microclimate.
The Kassari chapel is now in the area of Esiküla village . Numerous members of the von Stackelberg family are buried there.
Kassari Museum
The local history museum of the island of Kassari has been housed in the former caretaker's house since 1967 . The museum was founded as a private initiative by the local historian Volli Mäeumbaed, who was its first director. Today it is subordinate to the Hiiumaa museum in the island's capital Kärdla .
In the local history museum, life on Kassari and the local history from the Stone Age to the present day are presented in detail. Objects from seafaring and agriculture can also be seen. Also on display is a lifeboat from the Estonia , which sank off the Finnish coast in September 1994 and killed more than 850 people. In front of the museum there is a large oak tree , the former center of the Kassari estate.
Marie Under
The Mäeküla tavern is well worth seeing . The local school was later housed in it. The local teacher in the second half of the 18th century was Friedrich Under (1843–1930). His wife Leena Kerner (1854-1934) came from Kassari. They are the parents of the Estonian poet Marie Under (1883–1980). Marie Under, who was born in Tallinn , often stayed at Kassari.
Leiger memorial
South of the village center is a monument to the mythological giant Leiger, the forefather of the Hiiumaa island . The 3.5 m high monument was erected in 1991. The mischievous statue by the Tallinn sculptor Kalju Reitel (1921–2004) shows the giant building a bridge to the south laden with stones.
The reason for this was as follows: the cozy giant who likes to go to the sauna and eat large heads of cabbage once emigrated from the neighboring island of Saaremaa to Hiiumaa. His relative from Saaremaa, the giant Suur Tõll , visited him frequently, but did not like to get his feet wet. Leiger and his sons therefore wanted to build a bridge for Suur Tõll, which, however - like many of the islanders' major projects - was never completed.
Popularly, the beginning of the bridge is the southern headland of Kassari, the Sääretirp , at the beginning of which the statue stands.
Sääretirp
To the south of the monument, the narrow headland extends into the open Baltic Sea , the Sääretirp . Other names are Kassari säär or Orjaku säär .
The two-kilometer-long spit hook runs northeast-southwest. The beaches and the shallow bay attract numerous tourists in summer. Blue grass and juniper characterize the fauna, as well as honeysuckle , black alder , buckthorn , snowball and sea kale . The spit is under nature protection.
In July each year, the Hiiu Folk music festival takes place on the headland .
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 , p. 195.
Web links
- Description of the place (Estonian)
- Heimatmuseum (German)
- Gut von Kassari (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004, ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 , p. 23.
- ↑ http://www.hiiufolk.ee/