Mooste (Põlva)

Coordinates: 58 ° 10 '  N , 27 ° 12'  E

Moss​

Estonia

Historic mansion

Former schnapps distillery

Gate to the manor

The lake Mooste järv

The village of Mooste (Mooste alevik) is located in southeast Estonia . Until 2017 it was the main town of the former rural municipality Mooste (Mooste vald) in Põlva County , since then it has been part of Põlva Municipality . The historical German name of the place is Moisekatz .

Population and location

The village has 433 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017). It is located 42 kilometers southeast of the second largest Estonian city Tartu on the 10.4 hectare lake Mooste järv .

Well

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1242. In the 16th century, the Polish King Stephan Báthory lent the village to the judge Wilhelm Sturz. He founded the court of the same name there. In the course of the goods reduction, the courtyard was moved. In 1717 he came back into private ownership together with Kauksi . From 1810 the estate was owned by the noble Baltic German family Nolcken . The last private owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform in 1919 was Baron Eduard von Nolcken.

The magnificent two-story main building of the estate was completed in 1909 under the von Nolcken family. It was created according to the plans of the architect August Reinberg in the Heimat style . Numerous outbuildings as well as the over thirty hectare park with elements in the English style are also well preserved .

Today there is a guest house and a restaurant as well as a theater and an arts center (MoKS) that was established in 2001 .

In 1766 the first school in the village was founded. Today it is also located in the former manor house of the estate.

literature

• Baltic historical local dictionary. Part 1: Estonia (including Northern Livonia) (= sources and studies on Baltic history. Volume 8/1). Started by Hans Feldmann . Published by Heinz von zur Mühlen . Edited by Gertrud Westermann . Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-412-07183-8 , p. 362.

Web links

Commons : Gut Mooste  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description (eestigiid.ee)
• Entry in Eesti Entsüklopeedia (online version)
• Art Center MoKS
• Former schnapps distillery (today event rooms and hotel)
• Website of the estate
• Gut Mooste on mois.ee (German)
• Primary school Mooste

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mooste municipal administration ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 23, 2017