Menspe
Coordinates: 58 ° 49 ' N , 22 ° 28' E
Mänspe (unofficially also Mänspäe or Mõnspäe ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Hiiumaa (until 2017: rural municipality Emmaste ). It is located on the second largest Estonian island Hiiumaa (German Dagö ), directly on the Baltic coast .
description
Mänspe (German Mänspäh ) on the west coast of the island today has 19 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). It is 14 kilometers northwest of the village of Emmaste .
Attractions
The town's chapel and cemetery are well worth seeing. The first church was built around 1690 by seafarers out of gratitude for their rescue. Later it fell into disrepair. In October 1908 the new wooden Evangelical Lutheran church was inaugurated.
A memorial stone in the small cemetery commemorates the fate of fourteen local farmers who were murdered on October 12, 1941 by the Red Army , which was retreating from German troops .
Web links
- Description (Estonian)
- Mannspe Chapel and Cemetery (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), p. 21f.