Saare (Lääne-Nigula)

Coordinates: 59 ° 1 ′  N , 23 ° 34 ′  E

Saare​

Estonia

Saare (Swedish Lyckholm , German Lückholm ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural community Lääne-Nigula (until 2017: rural community Noarootsi ) in Lääne County in Estonia .

Population and location

Mansion

The former horse stable now houses a museum

Saare is nine kilometers northeast of the county capital Haapsalu . The place east of Pürksi has 24 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). The place name is officially bilingual Estonian and Swedish, as the village belonged to the traditional settlement area of ​​the Estonian Swedes until 1944 .

The place is part of the nature reserve Silma ( Silma looduskaitseala ).

history

The village was first mentioned in 1627. The farm is documented from 1662. The place was originally on an island (Estonian saar , Swedish holm ), hence the name of the place. It was not until the 19th century that the island was connected to the mainland, the Noarootsi ( Nuckö ) peninsula, through the uplift of the land .

From 1720 the estate was owned by the noble Baltic German family Rosen . The last private owners of the large estate before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform in 1919 were Woldemar Baron Rosen and his wife Lucie, the daughter of the doctor Carl Artur Woldemar von Hunnius (1825-1893). Friedrich von Rosen and his wife Hedwig operated the remaining goods until they emigrated in 1939.

The small one-story mansion was built around 1790 in the style of early classicism . After the Second World War , the building fell into disrepair. In 1996 the German Gustav von Rosen bought the ruins back. In 2001 he had the baroque mansion of his ancestors extensively renovated. Today it houses the living quarters of the von Rosen family and a guest house. In the former stable of the estate, which was restored in 1995/96, a small museum provides information about the history of the place. A café is open in summer.

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. 322.

Web links

Commons : Saare  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gut von Saare
• Entry in Eesti Entsüklopeedia (online version)
• Description (eestigiid.ee)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
2. ↑ Ivar Sakk: Eesti mõisad. Rice yuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 9985-78-574-6 ), p. 322
3. ↑ https://www.visitestonia.com/de/die-kaffeestube-saaremoisa