Lagedi

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Coordinates: 59 ° 24 '  N , 24 ° 56'  E

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Lagedi (German Laakt ) is a village ( Estonian alevik ) in the Estonian rural community Rae ( Johannishof ) in Harju County ( Harrien ). The distance to Tallinn is about ten kilometers.

description

The village has 847 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2010). Its area is 2.46 km². It is located on the important railway line between the Estonian capital Tallinn ( Reval ) and the railway junction Tapa ( Taps ). Lagedi has its own train station. A branch line runs from Lagedi to the port of Muuga on the Baltic Sea .

history

In the area around Lagedi on the right bank of the Pirita River , stone tools from the Bronze and Early Iron Ages, as well as ceramics from the younger Iron Age , are found by chance, suggesting that the area was settled early. The village was first mentioned in a document in 1241. In the Middle Ages it was considered to be one of the largest villages in the area around Tallinn .

The Lagedi manor was first mentioned in 1397. A two-story baroque mansion ( Lagedi mõis ) was built around 1720 (no longer existing). The famous schnapps distillery belonging to the estate was built in 1889 and extensively restored between 1981 and 1983. Today there is a concert and banquet hall in the two-story building. A modern middle section was added in 1980. The representative house serves as the cultural center of the place. The estate was expropriated in 1919 as part of the Estonian land reform .

A village school was founded in Lagedi in 1871. The current school building directly on the Pirita River was built between 1937 and 1939. It comes from the Estonian architect August Volberg .

The "Museum of the Estonian Struggle for Freedom" ( Eesti Vabadusvõitluse muuseum ) has been located in Lagedi since 1994 . Above all weapons and uniforms from the Estonian War of Independence (1918–20) and World War II are shown. The exhibition is also dedicated to the anti-Soviet resistance movement of the Forest Brothers ( metsavennad ). The museum is housed in the former summer house of Voldemar Päts (1878–1958), a younger brother of the first Estonian President Konstantin Päts . Since 2008, a relief on the wall of the museum has been commemorating the artist Voldemar Päts .

In August 2007 one of the largest concrete factories in Estonia opened in Lagedi .

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  1. ↑ Ivar Sakk: Eesti mõisad. Rice yuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 9985-78-574-6 ), p. 51
  2. ↑ http://www.mois.ee/harju/lagedi.shtml
  3. ↑ http://www.ap3.ee/?PublicationId=31503ED6-39D4-4163-9D98-74AA1E3959CE&code=3673/uud_uudidx_367306