Kiivera
Coordinates: 58 ° 54 ' N , 22 ° 28' E
Kiivera is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural community Hiiumaa (2013 to 2017: rural community Hiiu , before that rural community Kõrgessaare ) on the second largest Estonian island Hiiumaa (German Dagö ).
Description and history
Kiivera has three residents (as of December 31, 2011).
The ancestors of the Soviet-Estonian writer Egon Rannet (1911-1983) came from Kiivera . Rannet lost his parents early on. He lived in the interwar period in the Estonian capital Tallinn as a drifter on the road. During the Second World War he fought in the Red Army . During the time of the Estonian SSR , the imaginative and faithful to the line, Rannet, who had only attended school for four years, became a highly regarded playwright and novelist from the early 1950s.
Web links
- Description of the place (Estonian)
- Egon Rannet and Kiivera (Estonian; RTF ; 4 kB)