Kudjape
Coordinates: 58 ° 16 ' N , 22 ° 31' E
Kudjape (German Kudjapäh or Kudjapae ) is a village ( Estonian alevik ) in the Estonian rural municipality Saaremaa (until 2017: rural municipality Lääne-Saare , until 2014: rural municipality Kaarma ) in the Saare district on the largest Estonian island Saaremaa ( Ösel ). Kudjape has 518 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2010).
history
Kudjape is two kilometers east of the island's capital Kuressaare ( Arensburg ). The settlement has been documented since the 16th century. The Kudjape court originated in the 17th century. From 1805 to 1919 it was owned by the German Baltic noble family von Nolcken .
Kudjape cemetery
The Kuressaare City Cemetery ( Kudjape kalmistu ) is located in Kudjape . It was created from 1780. The funerary chapels in the classicism style are under monument protection. At the main gate there are some buildings erected in 1848, which with their portico facades are reminiscent of Greek temples . The grave chapel of the Grosswald family dates from 1870 in neo-Gothic style . In the 1880s, the neoclassical chapel was built for the family of the landowner Oscar Friedrich Wildenberg (1852-1928).
Numerous personalities of Estonian cultural life are buried in the cemetery of Kudjape, including the intellectuals Johann Wilhelm Ludwig von Luce (1756–1842) and Jean Baptiste Holzmayer (1839–1890), the artist Friedrich Sigismund Stern (1812–1889), the writer and musician Martin Körber (1817-1893), the organist Joosep Aavik (1899-1989), the Baltic German Baron Axel von Buxhoeveden († 1919) and the doctor Aleksander Poldrok (1871-1944), which was mainly to combat leprosy deserves has made.
Military cemetery
The German military cemetery in Kudjape, which had already been laid out during the Second World War , was reopened in 1996. More than 1,100 fallen soldiers of the German Wehrmacht are buried on it. The cemetery is under the care of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge . There is also a burial ground for Russian soldiers from the First World War .
Web links
- Description of the place (Estonian)
- Kudjape Cemetery (Estonian) ( page no longer available )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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), p. 264 ( ISBN 3-412-07183-8 )
- ↑ http://www.volksbund.de/kgs/stadt.asp?stadt=1909