Lohusuu (village)
Coordinates: 58 ° 57 ' N , 27 ° 3' E
The village of Lohusuu ( Estonian Lohusuu alevik ) is located in Ida-Viru County ( East Wierland ) in northeast Estonia . It is the capital of the rural community of the same name ( Lohusuu vald ).
Description and history
Lohusuu (German Lohusu ) has 452 inhabitants (as of January 4, 2010). It used to be a fishing village on the important road from Livonian Tartu ( Dorpat ) to Narva . In Lohusuu, the 48 km long Avijõgi River flows into Lake Peipsi ( Peipsi järv ). There is a small port there.
The place was first mentioned in 1599. Today's large village was not created until 1977 through the merger of the villages Lagedi, Lohusuu, Separa, Ülejõe and Veneküla.
Sons and daughters of the place
The most famous son of the place is the popular enlightener and writer Otto Wilhelm Masing (1763-1832), who was born in Lohusuu. A memorial plaque attached to the local library commemorates him. The location of the house where he was born is no longer known.
religion
The place was traditionally divided into two parts: in the 18th century, Russian-speaking old Orthodox settled on the east side of the river . The village was also called Veneküla ("Russian Village"). The Estonian-speaking Lutherans lived on the opposite bank. Both parishes still exist today.
Russian Orthodox Church
The Orthodox Church of the Epiphany (Estonian Issanda Ristimise kirik ) is now subordinate to the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate ( Moskva Patriarhaadi Eesti Õigeusu Kirik ). The sacred building was built in 1896/97 in the style of historicism . The architect was Vladimir Lunski.
Evangelical Lutheran Church
The current Evangelical Lutheran church was completed between 1878 and 1882 in neo-Gothic style . Your architect is unknown. The organ comes from the workshop of the South German company Walcker . The altarpiece from 1880 is the work of the Tartu artist Woldemar Friedrich Krüger (1807-1893). At the church there is also the cemetery of the place.
The former wooden church from 1667, which the lord of the castle von Laiuse Erik Fleming had built on the shores of Lake Peipus, no longer stands today.
Web links
- Full description (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), p. 199