Paslepa
Coordinates: 59 ° 1 ′ N , 23 ° 30 ′ E
Paslepa ( Swedish Pasklep , Estonian Swedish Pask (l) op , German Paschlep ) is a village ( küla ) in the Estonian rural community Lääne-Nigula (until 2017: rural community Noarootsi ) in the Lääne district .
Population and location
The village has 79 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). It is located on the Noarootsi peninsula on the Baltic Sea . Paslepa is eight kilometers northwest of the county capital Haapsalu .
history
Swedish-speaking farmers settled in the area in the 13th century . The village of Paslepa was first mentioned in 1540. In 1679 a courtyard was established. It was owned by the De la Gardie family .
In 1690 the court fell to the Swedish state through a reduction. In 1728 the Russian state gave the property to the noble Baltic German family Richter. In 1770 it fell to the Secretary of the Livonian Knighthood , Baron Otto Sigismund von Wolff . Subsequently, the farm was owned by the Knorring , Ungern-Sternberg and, from 1875, Frischmann families .
At the end of the 17th century, a simply designed house was built that looks more like a farm. It's empty today.
Teachers seminar
In 1873 the Swedish missionary Thore Emanuel Thorén founded a teacher training college for the Estonian Knighthood and the Swedish Mission Society ( Svenska Missionssällskapet ) in Paslepa . It trained the primary school teachers for the Swedish-speaking schools in Estonia and Livonia . The seminar was Estonian-speaking from 1880 and remained active in Paslepa until 1887.
Summer residence of the Estonian President
In 1938, then President Konstantin Päts commissioned the Estonian architects Alar Kotli and Olev Siinmaa to build the official summer residence of the Estonian head of state in Paslepa.
After Estonian independence was regained in 1991, Paslepa became the summer residence of the Estonian President. The property was extensively renovated for President Lennart Meri and expanded with a boat dock and guest house.
In 2008 the Estonian government decided to sell the summer residence, as it was hardly used by Meri's successors Arnold Rüütel and Toomas Hendrik Ilves due to the long distance to the capital Tallinn . The estate is now owned by the family of the Estonian casino operator Armin Karu.
Sons and daughters of the place
The draftsman Johann Karl Emanuel von Ungern-Sternberg (1773–1830) was born in Paslepa . The writer and lawyer Gustav Jakob Friedrich von Ungern-Sternberg (1771–1844) also came from there.
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 , pp. 433f.
Web links
- Entry in Eesti Entsüklopeedia (online version)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Estonian Statistical Office
- ↑ Ivar Sakk: Eesti mõisad. Rice yuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 9985-78-574-6 ), p. 320
- ↑ http://www.delfi.ee/news/paevauudised/eesti/paslepa-residents-jaab-presidendita.d?id=19067922