Pivarootsi
Coordinates: 58 ° 33 ' N , 23 ° 36' E
Pivarootsi (earlier spelling also Piivarootsi ; German Paulsruhe ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Lääneranna in Pärnu County (until 2017: rural municipality of Hanila in Lääne County ) in Estonia .
Population and location
The place has thirteen residents (as of December 31, 2011). It is located six kilometers southeast of the port of Virtsu ( Werder ) directly on the Baltic Sea .
history
The settlement was probably founded by Liven as early as the 14th century . Piva means "holy" in the Liv language .
The settlement was first mentioned in 1564/65 as Randaby , in 1586 as Piwarotz . In 1885 the place was renamed Paulsruhe in honor of Baron Paul von Hoyningen-Huene, who had died a year earlier .
The independent estate of Pivarootsi was established in the second half of the 17th century when the region belonged to the Swedish crown. The last private owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform in 1919 was the Baltic German nobleman Georg Hoyningen-Huene. The single-storey wooden mansion was probably built at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. It was built in the classicism style. Today it is privately owned again as a guest house.
Windmill
There are numerous guest houses and tourist facilities in the popular holiday resort. One of the sights is the Dutch-style windmill that was built around 1869. The five-story structure made of solid sandstone is fifteen meters high. The mill has been extensively restored. Today it serves as a hotel, seminar center and art museum.
Sons and daughters of the place
The most famous son of the place is the Estonian writer Karl Ristikivi (1912–1977). He spent his childhood and youth in Pivarootsi. A plaque commemorates him on the thatched former house.
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. 437.
Web links
- Official website
- Full description and history (Estonian)
- Description (Estonian)
- Good from Pivarootsi
- Children's and youth holiday home Pivarootsi
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ http://www.pivarootsimois.ee/
- ↑ http://www.pivarootsi.ee/
- ↑ http://www.visitestonia.com/de/pivarootsi-tuulik-pivarootsi-windmuhle-der-tennisplatz
