Crootuse

Coordinates: 58 ° 4 ′  N , 26 ° 50 ′  E

Crootuse​

Estonia

primary school

Outbuilding of the estate

Historic estate park

Krootuse (German Köllitz ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in southeast Estonia . It was until 2017 the capital of the rural community Kõlleste (Kõlleste vald) in Põlva County . Since then it has belonged to the rural community of Kanepi .

Population and location

The village has 369 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). It is located 28 kilometers northwest of the city of Võru west of the Hilba River (Hilba jõgi) .

history

The first information about the village of Kolles comes from 1544. The farm of Krootuse was first mentioned in 1549 under the name of Kollis . At that time it belonged to the mayor of Tartu , Elert Kruse († 1587).

As a result, the estate often changed hands. The Estonian name of the current village is derived from the owner Joachim von Rothausen (1634-1683), who owned the farm in the 17th century.

In 1742 the estate fell to the noble Baltic German family Stackelberg . At the beginning of the 20th century it belonged to the Estonian Johann Andreas Kurrikoff.

During the Soviet occupation of Estonia, the village of Krootuse was the center of a sovkhoz . It was named after the Estonian communist Voldemar Sassi (1899–1941).

literature

• Baltic historical local dictionary. Part 1: Estonia (including Northern Livonia) (= sources and studies on Baltic history. Volume 8/1). Started by Hans Feldmann . Published by Heinz von zur Mühlen . Edited by Gertrud Westermann . Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-412-07183-8 , p. 246f.

Web links

Commons : Krootuse  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Gut Krootuse (Köllitz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description (eestigiid.ee)
• Entry in Eesti Entsüklopeedia (online version)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Estonian Statistics Office , accessed on November 21, 2016