Rannajõe
Coordinates: 58 ° 49 ' N , 23 ° 48' E
Rannajõe is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Lääne-Nigula (until 2017: rural municipality Martna ). It is located in Lääne County in western Estonia .
Description and history
The village is located 22 kilometers southeast of the city of Haapsalu (German Hapsal ). It has 31 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). The Rannamõisa River ( Rannamõisa jõgi ) flows through the village and flows into the Matsalu Bay .
At Rannajõe, a 110-meter-long boardwalk leads to a four-meter-high observation tower. It offers a wide view of the landscape of the Matasalu National Park . It is used especially in the morning and evening hours to observe the local elk .
The historic manor Rannamõisa ( Vogelsang ) was located in the area of Rannajõe . During the Middle Ages it was a preamble of the canons of Haapsalu. In 1564 the Fogelsanck farm was mentioned in a document. After 1649 it belongs to the Volland family of German descent (noble family) . Johann von Volland, who served as a former cornet in a Swedish cavalry regiment during the Thirty Years' War, received recognition of his nobility on June 30, 1649 and admission to the Swedish knighthood as "Volland von der Lande". He then settled on the Vogelsang manor. From 1765 to 1873 at the latest, the farm was owned by the aristocratic Baltic German family Jarmerstaedt . The last owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform in 1919 was Count Leo Buxhöveden.
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. 630.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ http://www.visitestonia.com/de/aussichtsturm-rannajoe ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Siebmacher's Wappenbuch: Nobility of the Baltic Sea Provinces, p. 237.
