Saare (Saaremaa)
Coordinates: 57 ° 55 ' N , 22 ° 4' E
Sääre (German Zerell ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) on the largest Estonian island of Saaremaa . It belongs to the rural community Saaremaa (until 2017: rural community Torgu ) in the Saare district .
description
The place on the southern tip of the Sõrve peninsula has no residents today (as of December 31, 2011). The small islands of Siiasaar , Vesitükimaa and Lombimaa extend to the south .
In Sääre with its famous lighthouse, the Sõrve tuletorn , there is now an ornithological station .
From there, when the weather is good, you can look over the Irbenstrasse to Kurland .
history
There is evidence of a port for the place as early as the Middle Ages. From 1390 to 1516 the area was owned by the Korefer family , after which it belonged to the von Vietinghof family until 1665. The last private owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform was the politician and engineer Oskar von Ekesparre .
In the 13th century, a branch church of the Jämaja church, ten kilometers away, was built on site . It was probably destroyed during the Great Northern War in the early 18th century. A tombstone from 1368 is still preserved.
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 . Böhlau, Köln / Wien 1985 (= sources and studies on Baltic history. Volume 8/1), ISBN 3-412-07183-8 , p. 692.
Web links
- Description of the place (eestigiid.ee)