Kreenholm
Kreenholm ( German Krähnholm or Kränholm also , Swedish Krenholm , Crow Island ) is an Estonian river island of Narva in the same city .
The island is around 750 m long and 250 m wide and covers an area of 13 hectares. It divides the Narva waterfall into a western and an eastern arm. The Estonian- Russian border runs through the eastern arm .
A sawmill was operated on Kreenholm as early as the 14th century . In 1538 the Livonian Order built a watermill on the left bank of the river at the level of the island. The merchant Paul Momma had a fabric factory built on the right bank of the river in 1823. Baron Stieglitz 's flax mill was also located there .
From the 17th century onwards, the island belonged to the Joala estate ( Estonian Joala mõis ). Various owners used the current at the waterfalls to operate sawmills. In 1856, Ludwig Knoop from Bremen bought the entire island and began to build a cotton mill on it, which later became the Kreenholmi Manufaktuur textile factory .
Ludwig Knoop named a villa that still exists in the Bremen district of St. Magnus after the island . A road and a wooded area in this part of the village are also named after Krähnholm.
literature
- Company of the Krähnholm Manufactory for cotton products. 75 (years). 1857-1932. Krähnholm Manufactory, Tallinn 1933.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Virve Orav: Matkateed Narva lähistel ehk Vaivara radadel. Olion, Tallinn 1991, ISBN 5-460-00144-7 , p. 60.
- ↑ http://www.sankt-magnus.de/Kr%E4nholm.html
Coordinates: 59 ° 21 ' N , 28 ° 12' E