Vaemla
Coordinates: 58 ° 50 ' N , 22 ° 50' E
Vaemla (German Waimel or Waimell ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality Hiiumaa (until 2017: rural municipality Käina ). It is located on the second largest Estonian island Hiiumaa (German Dagö ).
Description and history
Vaemla has 24 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). The village is located east of the island's capital Kärdla ( Kertel ). From Vaemla, a dam connects the islands of Hiiumaa and Kassari .
Vaemla was first mentioned in 1453 under the name Waimonen . The Vaemla Wacke is recorded in 1564 and the Vaemla estate in 1688. It was owned by the Wachtmeister family for several centuries . The last owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform was the noble Baltic German family von der Pahlen .
Only the ruins of the single-storey limestone manor house can be found today. The 5.8 hectare park in the English style is still partially preserved .
Johann Köler
A memorial stone erected in 1976 in the estate's park commemorates the Estonian painter Johann Köler (1826–1899), who was a long-term guest in Vaemla in 1863 at the invitation of the squire Rudolf von Gernet.
He immortalized many of the town's residents in his pictures. The best-known example is Köler's monumental fresco for the Karlskirche in Tallinn . In Christ there, many recognized the coachman Villem Tamm from Gut Kassari.
Economy and industry
There is a wool factory in Vaemla that is now mostly a museum. It is housed in a former warehouse on the estate. Various wool machines and wool products from the 19th and 20th centuries are on display there. The visitor learns about wool production in the past and present.
In the vernacular of Hiiumaa, Vaemla is also jokingly called the “oil capital”. At the beginning of the 20th century, the local landlord Gustav Wilhelm Gotthard von der Pahlen had oil digged here after he smelled petroleum in his cellar and while working on a well . He then had several hundred test borings carried out and hired various geologists. The unsuccessful search for the "black gold Hiiumaas" continued into the 1920s.
Web links
- Description (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ http://entsyklopeedia.ee/artikkel/vaemla1
- ^ 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. 343
- ↑ http://travel.aviastar.org/estonia/villavabrik.html
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), p. 24