Piibe

58.9380555626.1783333333Koordinaten: 58 ° 56 'N, 26 ° 11' O

Piibe ( German beep ) is a village (Estonian küla ) in the Estonian rural community Rakke in Lääne -Viru county. It has 64 inhabitants ( 2007). Piibe is located about 37 kilometers north- northeast of the town of Rakvere ( Wesenberg ). The village was first mentioned in 1282.

Good Piibe

The manor of Piibe was founded in 1663 as a splinter group of the estate of Liigvalla ( Löwenwolde ). From 1772 ( or 1757) the estate was owned by the noble family von Baer. In Piibe Magnus was born Johann von Baer (1765-1825), who was from 1815 to 1818 knights captain of the Estonian Knighthood.

The most famous inhabitants of the place was his son, the Baltic German naturalist Karl Ernst von Baer. The founder of embryology was born 1792 in Piibe. From 1834 to 1866 he was the owner of the estate Piibe. The estate was expropriated in 1919 in the wake of the Estonian land reform.

The former wooden mansion was demolished in the late 1920s. Have been preserved for some outbuildings, including the caretaker's house with its pink facade. 1960, a memorial stone for Karl Ernst von Baer was inaugurated in the courtyard of the former Guts. 1976 varied park was extensively renovated with its pond.

After the approval of Piibe a previously very important road connection between Tallinn ( Reval ) and Tartu ( Dorpat ) is named, the so-called " Piibe maantee " ( Piepsche highway ).