Sandla

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Coordinates: 58 ° 18 '  N , 22 ° 49'  E

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Sandla (German Sandel ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) on the largest Estonian island Saaremaa . It belongs to the rural community Saaremaa (until 2017: rural community Pihtla ) in the Saare district .

Population and location

The village has 81 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). It is located twenty kilometers northeast of the island's capital Kuressaare , directly on the Baltic Sea .

In the place there is a library and a culture house. A small fishing port is located southeast of the village center.

history

The village goes back to a farm that was built in the Middle Ages. It was initially called Randen . It was greatly enlarged in the 16th century. From 1501 to 1817 the manor was owned (with short interruptions) by the noble Baltic German family Vietinghoff . The last private owner before the expropriation as part of the Estonian land reform in 1919 was Erich Baron Nolcken.

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Individual evidence

  1. Estonian Statistical Office