Linnuse (Lääneranna)
Coordinates: 58 ° 36 ' N , 23 ° 44' E
Linnuse is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Lääneranna in Pärnu County (until 2017: rural municipality of Hanila in Lääne County ) in Estonia .
Population and location
The place has 26 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). It is thirteen kilometers east of the Virtsu port .
Settlement of the area goes back a long way. Archaeologists have found cult objects from the first millennium BC near Linnuse.
Linnuse Castle Hill
Near the village, in the direction of Pajumaa , is the Paehalle castle hill (Estonian today Linnuse maalinn , Vatla maalinn or Karuse maalinn ). He was mentioned in Heinrich's Livonian Chronicle ( Heinrici Cronicon Lyvoniae ) in 1226 .
The area of the oval courtyard was around 1,700 square meters. The castle was surrounded by a two to three meter high ring wall, which was protected by a wide moat. The area used to be a moorland. The castle itself lies on the northwestern foothills of a moraine ridge .
From the 11th to the 13th centuries, the castle was the center of the historic parish . From the former castle there is a great view over the forests to the Baltic Sea five kilometers away .
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. 311 and p. 418.
Web links
- Entry in Eesti Entsüklopeedia (online version)
- Description (Estonian)
- Linnuse Castle Hill (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ http://www.eestigiid.ee/?SCat=56&CatID=0&ItemID=1420
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), p. 89