Pimestiku
Coordinates: 59 ° 24 ' N , 27 ° 51' E
Pimestiku is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Vaivara ( Vaivara vald ). It is located in Ida-Viru County ( East Wierland ) in northeast Estonia .
Description and history
The village has 7 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2012). It is located a few meters from the Baltic Sea near the cliff, which is up to twelve meters high .
The first settlement probably goes back to a donation from the lord of Vaivara, Baron Karl von Arps von Arpshofen . His chamberlain, Mart Siren, obtained land near Narva Bay to build a farm. The village is first mentioned in 1850 as "Streigesinde".
At the end of the 19th century, summer houses were built along the entire coastal region, including between Pimestiku and Meriküla . Bathing and health tourism on the Gulf of Finland began to develop.
At the beginning of April 1944 the front reached Pimestiku. During the heavy fighting between the Red Army and the German Wehrmacht on the so-called "Tannenberg Line", the village was almost completely wiped out. Few families came back after the end of World War II .
Bronze Age ax find
An ax from the Bronze Age was discovered by chance in 1939 at the Mummussaare homestead belonging to Pimestiku . The Pimestiku ax (also called the Vaivara ax) is 7.5 cm long and weighs 133.3 grams. The ornaments resemble on the one hand comparable artifacts in central Sweden, on the other hand finds from the area of the river Kama in Russia .
