Puutli
Coordinates: 57 ° 48 ' N , 27 ° 16' E
Puutli is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the Estonian rural municipality of Võru (until 2017 Vastseliina ) in Võru County .
Location and history
Puutli has 18 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2004). The village is 140 m above sea level.
In 1935, the Puutli Orthodox Church was built for Russian immigrant families who had settled in Puutli. The wooden church was built jointly by eleven families. Inside it is adorned with numerous decorations and icons. There is a small cemetery behind the church. The church was used regularly for parish services until the beginning of World War II . Today it is subordinate to the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church ( Eesti Apostlik-Õigeusu Kirik ). The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas .
Forest brothers
In 1989 a monument to the “ forest brothers ” ( Estonian metsavennad ) was inaugurated near Puutli . Forest brothers are Estonian partisans who, after the Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1944, continued to fight against the occupation troops into the 1960s.
Until 1953, five men and three women who belonged to the forest brothers hid in a bunker in the impassable forest area. They were tracked down by Soviet troops on March 29, 1953. In the subsequent firefight, most of them were killed, the others killed themselves. A memorial stone was erected in the forest for these eight forest brothers. The names of the fallen can be read on a plaque.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.vastseliina.ee/?go=turism
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), p. 294
- ↑ Richard Vähi, Karl Kaur, August Kuus, August Kurra, Leida Grünthal, Endel Leimann, Lehte-Kai Ojamäe and Ilse Vähi