Nurmsi (Paide)
Coordinates: 58 ° 52 ' N , 25 ° 43' E
Nurmsi (German also Nurmsi ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality Paide ( Paide vald ). It is located in the Central Estonian district of Järvamaa .
Description and history
The village has 103 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2010). It is ten kilometers east of the town of Paide . The settlement was first mentioned in 1564 under the name Nurmis .
Archaeologists have discovered grave sites from the Iron Age near Nurmsi . Both cremated and unburned remains of corpses were found there. Excavations took place in 1905, 1907, 1921/23 and 1943/35.
During the Soviet occupation of Estonia, there was an airfield of the Soviet air forces near Nurmsi, near the Mündi moor . The runway with a grass surface was 2,500 meters long. The facility was converted into agricultural land after Estonian independence was regained in the 1990s.
Sons and daughters (selection)
- Andreas von Below (1763-1820), Livonian land marshal
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. 396.