Nigula (Lääne-Nigula)
Coordinates: 58 ° 58 ' N , 23 ° 46' E
Nigula is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the Estonian rural municipality Lääne-Nigula in Lääne County in Estonia . Until 2013 Nigula belonged to the meanwhile dissolved rural community Taebla .
Location and history
Nigula has 177 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). It is located 14 km from the county capital Haapsalu ( Hapsal ) on the Taebla River ( Taebla jõgi )
Nigula was the center of the parish Lääne-Nigula (German parish Pönal ) since the 14th century .
Saint Nikolai Church
The church of Nigula, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is well known. The construction of today's Evangelical-Lutheran house of God began at the end of the 13th century. A square west tower with a portal in the late Baroque style was added to the single-storey nave in 1760 . The 52.2 m high tower with its 26.7 m high helmet was given its present appearance in 1882.
A fire destroyed large parts of Sankt Nikolai in 1809, which was then rebuilt in a redesigned form from 1816 to 1824. The interior is from the 19th century. The classical altar dates from 1823 and is the work of Saint Petersburg artists. The late Gothic previous altar from 1510 comes from the Lübeck master Hans von der Heyde . Today it is in the Tallinn Nikolaikirche . The two present altar paintings are copies of two works by Leonardo da Vinci .
The first organ was probably installed in the church in the 1850s, possibly built by Carl August Tanton . Today's instrument from 1926 comes from the Estonian organ builder Gustav Terkmann .
Since 1992 there has been a church partnership between the St. Martin parish Nortorf in Schleswig-Holstein and the parish of Nigula.
Sons and daughters of the village
- Eduard Paul Benedict Frese (1872–1919), German-Baltic pastor and Protestant confessor
literature
- Baltic historical local dictionary. Part 1: Estonia (including Northern Livonia). Started by Hans Feldmann . Published by Heinz von zur Mühlen . Edited by Gertrud Westermann . Cologne, Vienna 1985 (= sources and studies on Baltic history. Volume 8/1), ISBN 3-412-07183-8 , p. 385.
Web links
- Description of the village (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ http://www.puhkaeestis.ee/et/laane-nigula-kirik
- ↑ Mart helmets : Eestimaa kirikute teejuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 5-89920-297-1 ), p. 41
- ↑ http://www.eelk.ee/laane-nigula/