Saastna
Coordinates: 58 ° 43 ' N , 23 ° 34' E
Saastna (German Sastama ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Lääneranna in Pärnu County (until 2017: rural municipality of Lihula in Lääne County ).
Population and location
The place has 19 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). It is located on the peninsula of the same name ( Saastna poolsaar ) on the Baltic Sea . The distance to Haapsalu is 23 kilometers.
The village is part of the Matsalu National Park . It was not until the 16th or 17th century that the island became a peninsula due to the uplift of the land.
To the north of the village is the tranquil harbor ( Saastna sadam ). It has fifteen berths for smaller boats.
history
In 1254 the area was assigned to the Livonian Order as insula Saast . He drove the Estonian coastal inhabitants who had specialized in piracy inland. The order settled Swedish fishermen on the coast.
The village of Saastna was first mentioned in 1320 under the name Sastrennenne . According to popular belief, the tomb of the legendary Svea King Ingvar is located on the hill Porimägi . He is said to have fallen during a campaign in the region in the 7th century. The story passed down in the vernacular certainly encouraged the settlement of Swedish residents.
In the place there was a chapel dedicated to St. Olav . It is no longer preserved today. In the Middle Ages the place was a pilgrimage site for Estonian Swedes and for the inhabitants of Gotland .
Good of Saastna
At the end of the 17th century, the Saastna manor was founded. From 1818 it was owned by the noble Baltic German family Rennenkampff .
The representative manor house was built between 1760 and 1780 in the Baroque style. The middle section with its five large windows on each floor was two-story and was crowned by a triangular gable. The side wings were single-story. The house had a magnificent baroque interior.
The last owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform in 1919 was Otto Gustav Constantin Edler von Rennenkampff (1858-1919). The mansion fell into disrepair during the Soviet occupation of Estonia and has been in ruins since the 1970s. Today only the walls of the east wing are 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 . Cologne, Vienna 1985 (= sources and studies on Baltic history. Volume 8/1), ISBN 3-412-07183-8 , p. 536.
Web links
- Entry in Eesti Entsüklopeedia (online version)
- Full description (Estonian)
- Gut von Saastna (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ http://www.portbooker.com/de/hafen/estland/laanemaa/haapsalu/saastna/
- ^ 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. 297