Saastna

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Saastna ( German Sastama ) is a village (Estonian küla ) in the rural community Lihula ( Lihula vald ) in Lääne.

Population and location

The village has 19 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011). It is located on the peninsula ( Saastna pool saar ) in the Baltic Sea. The distance to Haapsalu is 23 kilometers.

The village is part of the National Park Matsalu. Only in the 16th or 17th century, the island was by raising the country to the peninsula.

North of the village lies the tranquil harbor ( Saastna sadam ). He has fifteen berths for smaller boats.

History

1254 the area was assigned as insulation Saast the Livonian Order. He drove the Estonian coastal residents who had specialized in piracy, inland. The Order settled on the coast of Swedish fishermen.

The village Saastna was first mentioned in records in 1320 under the name Sastrennenne. On the hill Porimägi to the popular belief after the grave of the legendary Svea King Ingvar should be located. He is said to have fallen in the 7th century during a Kriegszugs in the region. The traditional story popularly promoted sure the settlement of Swedish residents.

In the place stood a chapel, which was dedicated to St. Olav. It is no longer preserved. In the Middle Ages the town was a place of pilgrimage for Estonia and Sweden for the inhabitants of the island of Gotland.

Best of Saastna

End of the 17th century the manor was founded by Saastna. It stood since 1818 owned by the aristocratic Baltic German family Rennenkampff.

This prestigious mansion was built in 1760-1780 in the Baroque style. The middle section with its five large windows on each floor had two stories and was crowned by a triangular pediment. The side wings were single storey. To the house belonged to a splendid baroque interior.

Last owner was Otto Gustav Constantin Edler von Rennenkampff (1858-1919) before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform of 1919. The mansion fell into disrepair during the Soviet occupation of Estonia and was noticeably since the 1970s only a ruin. Today, only the walls of the east wing are obtained.