Mikitamäe (Setomaa)
Coordinates: 58 ° 0 ' N , 27 ° 33' E
Mikitamäe (Mikitamäe küla) is a village in the Estonian rural parish of Setomaa in Võru County . Until 2017, Mikitamäe was the capital of the rural municipality of the same name (Mikitamäe vald) in Põlva County .
The village has 267 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011).
history
The place was first mentioned in Russian chronicles in 1500 under the name Nikitina Gora . In the center of the village there is an underground cemetery from the 13th century. Burials were carried out there until the middle of the 19th century.
In 1912 a Russian-speaking school was founded for the Setukesian children of the place. During the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Mikitamäe became the center of a sovkhoz .
Houses of worship
In the place there are two traditional Orthodox village chapels ( Setukese tsässon , plural tsässonad ).
The older village chapel was built in 1694 according to dendrochronological measurements. It is the oldest surviving wooden building on mainland Estonia. The church was extensively restored after Estonian independence was regained and reopened in summer 2009.
The new village chapel dates from 1998.
The first burials in the old village cemetery were probably made in the 16th century. It was given up no later than the 1840s. Today it is partially built over.
Web links
- Description (eestigiid.ee)
- Entry in Eesti Entsüklopeedia (online version)
Individual evidence
- ^ Estonian Statistics Office , accessed January 30, 2017