Loja (Hiiumaa)
Coordinates: 58 ° 56 ' N , 22 ° 50' E
Loja is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality Hiiumaa (until 2017: rural municipality Pühalepa ). It is located on the second largest Estonian island Hiiumaa (German Dagö ).
Description and history
Loja has 5 residents (as of December 31, 2011). The place is nine kilometers southeast of the island's capital Kärdla .
Loja was originally a Beigut the manor of Suuremõisa ( Grossenhof ). The Hofland is listed in 1798 in the atlas of the German Baltic cartographer Ludwig August Mellin under the name Metsaloja ("Forest Loja").
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. 317.