Tudulinna (village)
Coordinates: 59 ° 2 ' N , 27 ° 5' E
The village of Tudulinna ( Estonian Tudulinna alevik ) is located in Ida-Viru County ( East Wierland ) in northeast Estonia . In 2017 it was the capital of the rural community of the same name ( Tudulinna vald ). Since then, Tudulinna has been part of the newly formed rural community of Alutaguse .
Description and history
Tudulinna (German Tuddolin ) has 232 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011). The place was first mentioned in 1583 as Tutinlinna . The fields of the place are not very fertile, so that the earlier inhabitants turned to handicrafts rather than agriculture.
On the maps of the German Baltic geographer Ludwig August Graf Mellin (1754–1835), an "extinct volcano " is entered in 1810 near Tudulinna . The curious mistake was corrected in Mellin's later editions.
In 1947 the hydroelectric power station was built on the Rannapungerja River ( Rannapungerja jõgi ), on which Tudulinna is located. It was shut down in 1959. In 1999, power generation operations were resumed.
Church dispute of Tudulinna
A specialty of Tudulinna are the two Evangelical Lutheran churches in the village. In 1923 a bitter church dispute raged in Tudulinna. It was pulled from the fence by the eloquent pastor Voldemar Kuljus, whose modern sermons on many areas of life did not necessarily adhere to the Holy Scriptures.
In 1929 the parish split into a conservative branch and the supporters of Pastor Kuljus. A dispute arose over the use of the church, which was carried up to the Estonian State Court . Eventually the place got two Evangelical Lutheran churches.
The older church from the 18th century is only a ruin today. It was built in 1766 and expanded in 1863.
The new church of the Peace Community of Tudulinna was built in 1938/39 according to plans by the German-Estonian architect Eugen Sacharias (1906–2002). The tower stands - a specialty in Estonia - on the east facade of the church. The ceramic tiles from the 18th century are worth seeing. You are from Holland . The organ was built in Tartu in 1912 .
Web links
- Full description (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Haldusjaotus ( Memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), p. 198
- ↑ http://www.tudulinnavv.ee/index.php?tid=RsHiX7RJkOTdRUz97XoJihuiUKLR9kl6hHld6k8u