Kurtna (Saku)
Coordinates: 59 ° 14 ' N , 24 ° 45' E
Kurtna is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the Estonian rural community of Saku in Harju County . It has 317 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2007).
The place was first mentioned in 1350 as a Kurtena .
Known in the Kurtna today amusement park Vembu-tembumaa and the motorcycle museum , with more than thirty exhibits from Germany, the USA, Russia and England.
In the 1960s a large experimental station for poultry farming was built in Kurtna. The main building, designed by the Estonian architect Valve Pormeister , one of the main representatives of organic architecture in the Soviet Union , received the Estonian SSR State Prize in 1967 . The functionalist house in the style of Nordic modernism, which blends in with nature, is reminiscent of buildings by Alvar Aalto .
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- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa . Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), p. 129
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
