Lautna
Coordinates: 58 ° 44 ' N , 23 ° 54' E
Lautna (German Lautel ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Lääneranna in Pärnu County (until 2017: rural municipality of Lihula in Lääne County ).
Population and location
The place has 27 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). It is located 34 kilometers southeast of Haapsalu ( Hapsal ).
In Lautna there is a memorial stone for the Estonian ornithologist and naturalist Eerik Kumari (1912–1984), who was born in Matsalu . From 1952 to 1977 he was head of the Institute of Zoology and Botany of the Estonian Academy of Sciences . The foundation of today's Matsalu National Park goes back to Kumari in 1957.
history
During the Middle Ages, Lautna belonged to the Lihula ( Leal ) nunnery . The village of Lautna was first mentioned in 1534 under the name Lautell .
Lautna's farm was built in the 17th century. From 1765 the manor of Lautna is proven. The last owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform in 1919 was the noble Baltic German family Manteuffel . The manor house is no longer preserved today.
literature
- 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), ISBN 3-412-07183-8 , p. 293.
Web links
- Description of the place (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ ftp://195.80.111.130/pub/HTTP/Fotokogu/A125/Lautna_mois.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
