Uulu
Coordinates: 58 ° 17 ' N , 24 ° 35' E
Uulu (German Uhla ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the Estonian rural community Häädemeeste (until 2017: rural community Tahkuranna ) in Pärnu County . It has 545 inhabitants (as of 2000).
In addition to the scenic location on the Baltic Sea , Uulu is particularly known for its church. The construction was significantly promoted in 1880 by the Baltic German Guard Captain Gotthard Reinhold Baron Stael von Holstein. Stael von Holstein, who lived in Uulu from 1848 until his death in 1892, had a certain influence in the Russian Empire as chamberlain at the tsarist court in Saint Petersburg . The church was extensively renovated in 2007.
The castle-like manor house of the former manor of Uulu was destroyed in 1917. What is preserved, however, is the impressive, around 300-meter-long Uulu Mool, which Stael von Holstein had built from natural stones about two kilometers north of Uulu in the Baltic Sea . The port at this point was destroyed in the Crimean War. On July 29, 1880, a delegation from the Romanov tsarist family was received at the Moole , and a year later a rose garden with a memorial stone was built to commemorate this event, which, like the manor house, was destroyed in 1917. Today a rose garden with a new memorial stone (Ajalooline Roosiaia puhkepark) has been created at this point.
A park on the Uulu River ( Uulu jõgi ), which flows directly into the Baltic Sea via a canal, is ideal for walks. The first Estonian song festival for the Parnu Parish took place there in 1867 , one of the first ever in Estonia and Livonia .
An avenue of oaks that is over a hundred years old leads past dunes, some eight meters high, to Häädemeeste . The final resting places of the local Baltic German nobles are also nearby.
Web links
- Detailed description of the place (Estonian)
- Uulu Church (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board and memorial stone. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .