Maasi
Coordinates: 58 ° 34 ' N , 23 ° 3' E
Maasi (German Masick ) is an Estonian village in the rural municipality of Saaremaa (until 2017: rural municipality Orissaare ) on the island of Saaremaa . The village has 53 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011). In 2017 Laheküla became part of Maasi.
Maasi ( Maasilinn ) was the administrative center of the island of Muhu and the eastern part of Saaremaa in the Middle Ages . The settlement then belongs to the parish of Peude .
In 1985, Estonia's oldest ship, the so-called Maasilinna laev , was found there and lifted two years later. It was built around 1550 and is the only surviving ship from Medieval Estonia.
Ordensburg Soneburg
In 1345 the Livonian Order began building the Soneburg Castle ( Estonian Maasilinna ordulinnus ). It was built on the orders of the order master Burchard von Dreileben (1340 to 1345) after the destruction of the order castle of Peude and the suppression of the uprising in the Georgsnacht . The name Soneburg (= Sühneburg) indicates that the residents were obliged to build a new one instead of the Peude Castle, which was destroyed during the uprising. Initially the castle was made of wood, but was then expanded into a stone castle under Burchard's successor, Goswin von Herike (1345–1359). It was also the center of the local bailiwick . A bailey was added around 1518 and probably reinforced with more towers and cannon ramps in the 16th century.
In 1564 the castle fell through sale from the Order to the Danes, who two years later surrendered it to the demolition. Partly rebuilt, the castle was conquered by the Swedes twice during the Livonian War , in 1568 and 1575. In 1576 Maasilinn was finally blown up on the orders of the Danish King Frederick II . Since then only the ruins have been preserved. They were extensively renovated in 2001.
Web links
- Ordensburg Soneburg (Estonian)
- Medieval ship from Maasilinn (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of renaming of places for administrative reform 2016/2017 (Estonian)
- ^ Armin Tuulse: The castles in Estonia and Latvia (= negotiations of the Estonian learned society . Volume 33 ). Õpetatud Eesti Seltsi Toimetused, S. 185 .