Merivälja

Location of Merivälja (red) in the Tallinn district of Pirita (yellow)

Modern new building in Merivälja

Merivälja is a municipality ( Estonian asum ) of the Estonian capital Tallinn . It is one of the districts of the Pirita district . Merivälja has almost 3,000 inhabitants (as of 2008).

Location, history, architecture

Merivälja is located east of Tallinn city center. The municipality borders on the Tallinn Bay. In the northeast it forms the city boundary between Tallinn and the rural municipality Viimsi .

The district was founded in 1924 by the garden city society Saku . Previously, the area belonged to the pastureland of Viimsi estate. Merivälja was the second garden city in the Tallinn area after Nõmme .

The homes were mostly planned in the style of functionalism . The cityscape is still dominated by residential buildings near the Baltic Sea beach. In 1945 Merivälja was annexed to the city of Tallinn. After the Second World War , the larger plots were divided. There were smaller houses with mostly high gables . In the 1980s, newer, more richly decorated buildings in postmodernist style were added. Now larger villas were also built.

Personalities

The Estonian opera singer Alfred Sällik (1890–1943) lived in the district for a time .

Web links

Commons : Merivälja  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Architecture in Merivälja (Estonian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Estonian Architecture Museum (ed.): Tallinn in the 20th century. Architecture guide. Tallinn n.d. [1994], p. 97

Coordinates: 59 ° 30 '  N , 24 ° 50'  E