Kirbla
Coordinates: 58 ° 44 ' N , 23 ° 57' E
Kirbla (German Kirrefer ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the Estonian rural community Lääneranna in Pärnu County (until 2017: rural community Lihula in Lääne County ).
place
152 inhabitants live in an area of 15.4 km² (as of December 31, 2011). The Kasari River ( Kasari jõgi ) flows through the village .
Kirbla was first mentioned at the beginning of the 16th century under the name Kirpever . It is located about seven kilometers from Lihula ( Leal ). In Kirbla there is a 33 m high "mountain" on which six cult stones and traces of a prehistoric settlement can be found.
From 1931 to 1968 there was a train station two kilometers from the village center on the route between the city of Rapla and the important ferry port Virtsu .
The Estonian politician Jüri Uluots (1890–1945), who died in exile in Sweden, has been buried in his home village of Kirbla since 2008 . Uluots was Prime Minister in 1939/40 and acting head of state of the Republic of Estonia from 1940 to 1945.
church
The Kirbla parish probably split off from the Lihula parish in the 14th century. The St. Nikolai Church of Kirbla, which was the center of the former parish, is worth seeing. It is located near a natural limestone terrace where plants that are rare in Estonia grow.
The church was built under the bishop of Ösel-Wiek , Johann III. Orgies (bishop 1492–1515), established. It was first mentioned in a document in 1531. The single-nave church in late Gothic style is one of the smallest in Estonia with a length of 28.9 m and a width of 11 m.
The altar painting with the Ascension of Christ dates from 1770, the late Baroque altar from 1783. The lower part of the west tower with its church bell dates from the 18th century, the upper part from the second half of the 19th century. The organ was built by Carl August Tanton in 1850 . It was redesigned around the turn of the century by the famous Estonian organ builder Gustav Terkmann (1850–1924).
Web links
- Description of the place (Estonian)
- Parish of Kirbla (Estonian)
- Kirbla Church (Estonian)
- Images of the Church of Kirbla
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa . Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), p. 85
- ↑ http://www.mois.ee/deutsch/kirchsp/kirbla.shtml
- ^ Thea Karin: Estonia. Cultural and scenic diversity in a historical borderland between east and west. Cologne 1994 (= DuMont art and landscape guide ) ISBN 3-7701-2614-9 , p. 296