Peressaare
Coordinates: 59 ° 6 ' N , 26 ° 49' E
Peressaare is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Alutaguse ( Tudulinna until 2017 ). It is located in Ida-Viru County ( East Wierland ) in northeast Estonia .
Description and history
Today the village has only 5 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011).
Before the 1930s, the place consisted of only three homesteads.
Neusiedlerhöfe
Between 1933 and 1937, the Estonian Ministry of Agriculture built around 130 new settlers' farms in Peressaare on an area of seventeen square kilometers, with an agricultural area of between twelve and twenty hectares. The state had the residential and storage buildings developed as a type project by the architect Erika Nõva . The project was under the patronage of the Estonian head of state and government Konstantin Päts .
The almost 63 kilometers long narrow-gauge railway between Mustvee and Sonda , which went into operation in 1926, was intended to become the economic backbone of the area's agricultural development.
The settlement project failed with the Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1940 and the collectivization of agriculture.
Today the place looks like a ghost town . Most of the Neusiedlerhöfe are orphaned or have been demolished.
Web links
- Description and history (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Haldusjaotus ( Memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Noorpere project Pätsu moodi ( Memento from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ http://paber.maaleht.ee/?page=&grupp=artikkel&artikkel=5891