Pidula
Coordinates: 58 ° 25 ' N , 22 ° 9' E
Pidula (German Piddul ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) on the largest Estonian island Saaremaa . It belongs to the rural community of Saaremaa (until 2017: rural community of Kihelkonna ) in the Saare district .
Population and location
The village has twenty inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). It is located 35 kilometers northwest of the island's capital Kuressaare . The Pidula oja stream flows through the village and flows into the nearby Tagalaht bay in the Baltic Sea .
History and good
There was probably a ( leprosy ) hospital of the Teutonic Order at the place as early as 1240 . The name of the village is possibly derived from him.
In 1572 Duke Magnus von Holstein refused the village of Pittola . This resulted in the court called Piddul in German in the 16th century . It was enlarged at the beginning of the 17th century. From 1603 to 1787, with a short interruption, it was owned by the noble Baltic German family Stackelberg . Then it belonged to the von Toll family until it was expropriated as part of the Estonian land reform in 1919 .
The single-storey mansion was built shortly after the Northern War , probably around 1728, in the Baroque style on the walls of an earlier building, as was the surrounding Baroque park. the mansion was expanded at the beginning of the 19th century by an extension and a two-column portico . From 1920 to 1970 the Pidula primary school was housed in the building. It then stood empty for a long time. The extensively renovated property has been used as a hotel since the end of 2012.
The two-storey watermill of the former estate, which is still preserved today, dates from 1809 and is one of the oldest on the island. The first floor is made of stone, the second is made of wood.
Prehistoric castle
The remains of a prehistoric castle of the pagan Estonians have also been found in Pidula. It probably dates from the first half of the 1st millennium AD.
Personalities
The Pidula estate is the birthplace of the Baltic German politician Adam Friedrich von Stackelberg (1703–1763).
From 1923 to 1940, the village's primary school was headed by the choirmaster, chronicler and writer Jakob Laul (1899–1942). Laul was executed by the Nazis in Kuressaare in April 1942 during the German occupation of Estonia (1941–1944) .
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 , pp. 451f.
Web links
- Pidula Manor (Hotel)
- Entry in Eesti Entsüklopeedia (online version)
- Description ( eestigiid.ee )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Estonian Statistical Office
- ↑ Ivar Sakk: Eesti mõisad. Rice yuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 9985-78-574-6 ), p. 333
- ↑ http://www.pidula.ee/index.php?page_id=1