Ridase
Coordinates: 58 ° 38 ' N , 23 ° 40' E
Ridase 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 .
description
The place has 24 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011).
In the place is the so-called "sacrificial stone of Mihkli-Jaagu". The boulder has a circumference of 30.1 m. Its height is four meters. It has been under state protection since 1958.
In 1972 traces of a settlement and ten stone graves from the first half of the first millennium BC were discovered near Ridase.
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. 502.
Web links
Commons : Sacrificial Stone by Ridase - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Description (Estonian)