Putkaste (Hiiumaa)

Coordinates: 58 ° 50 '  N , 22 ° 48'  E

Putkaste​

Estonia

Former mansion of the Putkaste estate. Photo taken in 2012.

Ruins of the warehouse building

Putkaste (German Putkas ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural community Hiiumaa (until 2017: rural community Käina ). It is located on the second largest Estonian island Hiiumaa (German Dagö ).

Description and history

Putkaste is northeast of Käina . Today the village has 108 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). The area is 0.9 km².

The Estonian shot putter Taavi Peetre (1983-2010) came from Putkaste .

Good put caste

In the Middle Ages, Putkaste was an episcopal village called Saulepa . In the 16th century the Putkaste estate was founded. It was united with the Suuremõisa Manor in 1620 . The owner was the Swedish military Jakob De la Gardie (1583-1652). In 1691 the estate was confiscated by the Swedish state as part of the reduction. From 1720 to 1755 Putkaste was a crown property . From 1805 Putkaste was owned by the noble Baltic German family Stackelberg . The last owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform in 1919 was Margarethe Baroness Stackelberg.

From 1934 to 1938 an agricultural school was housed on the estate. During the Soviet occupation of Estonia, the manor house was used for the administration of the sovkhozes founded in 1944 . In 1977 the pilot plant of the sovkhoz was established there.

The main building was erected at the beginning of the 19th century immediately after ownership was transferred to the von Stackelberg family. The two-and-a-half-story building is in the classicism style. The arched window above the main entrance is characteristic. The side wings are decorated with triangular gables. The large hall faces the garden. There is a representative pond in front of the house. The building is empty today.

In the spring of 2007, a fire destroyed the property's historic granary.

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. 475.

Web links

Commons : Gut von Putkaste  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Description of the place (Estonian)
• Gut von Putkaste (Estonian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
2. ↑ Ivar Sakk: Eesti mõisad. Rice yuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 9985-78-574-6 ), p. 340