Vasta (Estonia)
Coordinates: 59 ° 27 ' N , 26 ° 42' E
Vasta (German Waschel ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Viru-Nigula ( Viru-Nigula vald ) in the Estonian district of Lääne-Virumaa .
Location and description
Vasta is 22 kilometers northeast of Rakvere . The village has 54 inhabitants (as of 2006). The settlement was first mentioned in 1241 under the name Uvaskæthæ (Waskethe) .
Good vasta
The manor of Vasta was first mentioned in a document in 1398. It was owned by the Wrangel family in the 17th century . The last owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform of 1919 was the Baltic German nobleman Reinhold von Winkler. A school has been housed in the main building since 1940.
The estate got its current appearance at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. The two-story mansion with a high roof in the style of early classicism was completed around 1800 . The outside of the building is kept simple. The stucco-decorated representative rooms on the upper floor can still be seen today. Together with the numerous outbuildings, the estate was given a symmetrical shape. A 2.2 hectare park extends behind the mansion.
The creator of the Estonian national epic " Kalevipoeg ", Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803–1882), and his wife Marie Elisabeth Saedler (1805–1888) celebrated their wedding in 1833 in the massive looking manager's house .
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. 653.
Web links
- Description of the place (Estonian)
- Gut Vasta (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ivar Sakk: Eesti mõisad. Rice yuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 9985-78-574-6 ), p. 151
- ↑ http://www.eestigiid.ee/?SCat=15&CatID=0&ItemID=466
