Risti (Hiiumaa)
Coordinates: 59 ° 1 ′ N , 22 ° 39 ′ E
Risti is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality Hiiumaa (2013 to 2017: rural municipality Hiiu , before that rural municipality Kõrgessaare ) on the second largest Estonian island Hiiumaa (German Dagö ).
Risti has six residents (as of December 31, 2011). It is located six kilometers from the village of Kõrgessaare .
Ristimägi - Hill of Crosses
The hill Ristimägi (in German "Kreuzberg") near the village is best known. Especially those who are newly in love or newlyweds put up self-made crosses there.
According to legend, the tradition goes back to an old, tragic story: two wedding procession are said to have met here. Neither of them wanted to leave the path. In the brawl that followed, many participants were killed, including a bride and groom.
Another, no less tragic legend says that the Estonian Swedes , who had to leave their homeland in 1781 on the orders of the Russian Tsarina Catherine II , put the first crosses in the sand here as a farewell. On August 20, 1991, a memorial made of two entwined millstones was erected to commemorate the deportation of the island Swedes to southern Ukraine.
Web links
- Description (Estonian)
- "Hill of Crosses" (German)
- Ristimägi (Hill of Crosses) (German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ^ Thea Karin: Estonia. Cultural and scenic diversity in a historical borderland between east and west. Cologne 1994 (= DuMont art and landscape guide ) ISBN 3-7701-2614-9 , p. 337
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), p. 17
