Room assaars
Coordinates: 58 ° 14 ' N , 22 ° 30' E
Roomassaare (German Romasaar ) is a district of the island's capital Kuressaare (Arensburg) on the south coast of Saaremaa (Ösel) . The place was incorporated into the city in 1975. Both Kuressaare Airport and the city's port are located in the district.
Location and history
Roomassaare is located about four kilometers southeast of the city center of Kuressaare on an elongated peninsula (Roomassaare poolsaar) , which protrudes into the Baltic Sea . To the west lies the Kuressaare laht bay , to the east the Sepamaa laht bay .
The place was first mentioned in 1598 as Haffen under Romser .
With the tourist boom in Kuressaare as a spa and seaside resort since the 1840s, numerous guest houses and neat summer houses were also built in Roomaassaare. The private mud bath sanatorium of the doctor Wladislaw Laurentius von Szeliga-Mierzeyewski (1841–1918) and his French wife Auguste Jeanne Petit de Sancerre (1855–1916) , who came from Wizebsk , was known nationwide . The sophisticated spa facility was also visited by members of the tsarist aristocracy. The stately building was erected in 1876 and destroyed in 1941 during the Second World War.
The peninsula is now particularly popular with bird watchers.
port
The port was built between 1891 and 1894. It was deepened in 1913; after that work was suspended because of the First World War . During the German occupation of Saaremaa island in World War I , construction of a narrow-gauge railway from the port to the interior began in 1917 . Most of it was dismantled in 1922.
Today the port has six quays with a total length of 544 meters. Today it is in operation as both a passenger and cargo port and a marina. There are regular ferries from Roomassaare to the Estonian islands of Abruka and Ruhnu .
Airport
To the north of the port is Kuressaare Airport with its two runways. The first airfield was built in the second half of the 1930s. The airport was officially opened in March 1945 after the Soviet occupation of Estonia. The current airport building dates from 1962.
The airport has regular scheduled flights to and from Tallinn and the island of Ruhnu .
literature
- Baltic historical local dictionary. Part 1: Estonia (including Northern Livonia) (= sources and studies on Baltic history. Volume 8/1). Started by Hans Feldmann . Published by Heinz von zur Mühlen . Edited by Gertrud Westermann . Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-412-07183-8 , p. 510.
Web links
- Port Roomassaare
- Harbor panorama (360-degree view)
- Kuressaare Airport