Väike-Lähtru
Coordinates: 58 ° 55 ' N , 23 ° 53' E
Väike-Lähtru (German Klein-Lechtigall ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality Lääne-Nigula (until 2017: rural municipality Martna ) in Lääne County in Estonia .
Population and location
The place has 34 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). It is located 21 kilometers southeast of the county capital Haapsalu . The Rannamõisa River ( Rannamõisa jõgi ) flows through the village and flows into the Matsalu Bay.
Well
Since 1688, in addition to the nearby Suure-Lähtru ( Groß-Lechtigall ) estate , the farm Väike-Lähtru ( Klein-Lechtigall ) has been recorded. From 1765 at the latest, the two owners no longer coincided. From then until 1865, Väike-Lähtru was owned by the noble Baltic German family Ungern-Sternberg . The last private owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform in 1919 was the von Hunnius family.
Orthodox school and church
In 1882, at the time of the Russification attempts by the tsarist authorities in Estonia, a Russian Orthodox village school was founded on the Panga talu farm . A short time later the school moved to a new building.
From 1902 to 1906, the future opera singer Alexander Arder (1894–1966) attended elementary school there. In 1970 the school was closed. A memorial stone placed in 1998 commemorates the educational institution.
In 1885, after the Lutheran Estonians converted to Russian Orthodoxy, an Orthodox parish was founded in Väike-Lähtru. From 1887 to 1889, the Orthodox Nativity of the Mother of God Church ( Jumalaema Sündimise kirik ) was built next to the new school building . It was consecrated in October 1889. The architects of the church were E. Bernhardt and K. Nyman.
During the Soviet occupation of Estonia, the municipality was closed in 1974. Of the original four church bells, one is in the museum in Haapsalu. The other three hung in the Estonia Concert and Opera House in Tallinn until 2007 .
The bells were returned to the Orthodox Church after Estonian independence was regained. You are now in the Cathedral of the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church (EAÕK) in the Estonian capital.
Next to the church is the village cemetery.
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. 295f.
Web links
- Entry in Eesti Entsüklopeedia (online version)
- Orthodox Church (Estonian)