Luidja
Coordinates: 58 ° 56 ' N , 22 ° 23' E
Luidja is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural community Hiiumaa (2013 to 2017: rural community Hiiu , before that rural community Kõrgessaare ) on the second largest Estonian island Hiiumaa (German Dagö ).
Description and history
Luidja (in German about "Dünen [dorf]") has 34 inhabitants today (as of December 31, 2011).
The place is 22 kilometers southwest of the island's capital Kärdla ( Kertel ), directly on the bay of Luidja ( Luidja laht ).
The Baltic Sea beach at Luidja is popular. A historic post mill from 1872 stands a few hundred meters from the village center .
Between the villages of Luidja and Paope there is a two kilometer long black alder plantation. It was laid out between 1904 and 1908 by the forester Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ahrens from Schwerin in order to stop the dunes advancing towards the village . The 67.5 hectare area has been under landscape protection since 1962. Today a memorial stone created by the sculptor Robert Rannast (* 1928) in 1989 commemorates Ahrens, who lived in the village of Isabella .
Web links
- Description of the place (Estonian)
- Alder forest of Luidja (German)
- Beach tourism in Luidja (Estonian)
- Luidja Protected Landscape Area (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), p. 20
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
